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Bavaria. Celts. 15BC Rome. 488 Germanic tribes. 555 Franks. 788 Charlemagne...817 E Franks. 10C Duchy in HRE. 1180 Wittelsbach. 1805 Kingdom. 1871 German Empire. 1918 Republic. 1919 Weimar Republic. 1933 Germany. 1949 W Germany.
Bavarian Succession, War. (Potato War). 1778-9. Prussia stops Austria from taking over Bavarian land ceded to it.
Bay of Pigs. 1961. CIA-financed Cuban invasion by exiles fails. Cuban Missile Crisis.
Bayard, Pierre. 1476-1524. French knight in Italian wars. “The fearless and blameless knight.”
Bayer, Johann. 1572-1625. German astronomer. Star charts, 1603, include magnitude Greek symbols.
Bayeux Tapestry. c1104. 70 meter illustration of Norman Conquest of England.
Bayle, Pierre. 1647-1706. French religious sceptic: Dictionnaire Historique et Critique 1697.
Baylen, Battle. 1808. Spanish mob defeats French army, humiliating Napoleon.
Bazaine, Achille. 1811-88. French marshal, surrendered Metz, 1870. Condemned as traitor. Escaped 1874.
Bazille, Jean-Frédéric. 1841-70. Early French Impressionist painter.
Beach, Alfred. 1826-96. US inventor. Published Scientific American 1848-.
Beadle, George. 1903-89. US geneticist. Role of genes in heredity.
Bean, Roy. 1825-1903. US frontier judge. “The Law West of the Pecos”.
Beardsley, Aubrey. 1872-98. Controversial Art Nouveau illustrator in black and white. Salomé 1894. Lysistrata 1896.
Beatles. 1960-71. Liverpool pop group.
Beaufort, Francis. 1774-1857. English hydrographer: wind scale 1805.
Beaufort, François. 1616-69. Adored Fronde general. King of Halles.
Beaumarchais, C de. 1732-99. French satirical writer vs nobility. Barber of Seville 1772, Marriage of Figaro 1784.
Beauregard, Pierre. 1818-93. Confederate general. Ordered attack on Ft. Sumter.
Beauvais, Vincent de. Vincent of Beauvais.
Beauvoir, Simone de. 1908-86. French Existentialist writer. The Second Sex 1949.
Beaverbrook, Lord. (Maxwell Aitken). 1879-1964. Canadian/British newspaper magnate, politician. Advocated free trade within Commonwealth.
Bebel, August. 1840-1913. Founder of German Social Democrat Party.
Beccaria, Cesare. 1738-94. Italian writer. Treatise on Crime and Punishment 1764. Influenced 19C penal reform and capital punishment.