Basilians. 358. Monastic order of St. Basil.

Basque. Europe’s oldest racial group. NW Spain, SW France. Euzkadi. ETA.

Bassano. 1796. Victory of Napoleon over the Austrians.

Bassein, Treaty. 1802. Indian alliance with British East India Company leads to second Maratha War.

Bassi, Agostino. 1773-1856. Italian microscopist: contagion by microbes.

Bastille. 1370. Paris fortified residence for Charles V, became a state prison, arsenal 1397. Stormed July 14, 1789. Symbolic overthrow of monarch’s power. Lettres de Cachet.

Bataan Death March. 1942. Japanese force 60 mile march; 54 of 70,000 prisoners arrive.

Batavian Republic. 1795-1806. = Netherlands.

Bateau-Lavoir. 1900. Paris birthplace of cubism (Picasso, Braque) and modern poetry (Jacob, Apollinaire, Orlan). Desmoiselles d’Avignon.

Bates, Katherine.1859-1929. US poet. America the Beautiful 1893.

Bates, W. 1825-92. English naturalist. Supported Darwin with mimicry evidence.

Ba’th. Ba’ath.

Bath, Order of. 1399. A British knighthood.

Bathory, Elizabeth. -1614. Hungarian Countess. Bathed in blood of 600 young girls to rejuvenate.

Bathsheba. Old Testament Hittite Wife of David, mother of Solomon.

Batista, Fulgencio. 1901-73. Authoritarian Cuban right-wing dictator 1933-4, 52-8. Toppled by Castro.

Battenberg. Family name anglicized to Mountbatten.

Baudelaire, Charles. 1821-67. French modernist poet: Fleurs du Mal 1857. Influenced Symbolists.

Baudin, Alphonse. 1811-51. French deputy, killed on the Barricades. Republican martyr.

Baudricourt, Robert. Brought Joan of Arc to Charles VII.

Bauer, Sebastian. 1822-75. Invented submarine, 1850. First underwater photography.

Bauhaus. 1919-33. German art institute. ’Arts and sciences should cooperate in architecture’ -Gropius.

Baum, Frank L. 1856-1919. US writer. Wizard of Oz 1900.

Baumé, Antoine. 1728-1804. French chemist: aromatics discoverer.

Bautzen, Battle. 1813. Napoleon defeats Prussians.

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