Sickert, Walter. 1860-1942. German/English Impressionist painter.

Sidmouth, First viscount. 1757-1844. British Prime Minister 1801-4. Treaty of Amiens. Peterloo Massacre.

Sienkiewicz, Henryk. 1846-1916. Polish novelist: Slowo Trilogy 1883-88. Quo Vadis 1896.

Sigismund I. The Old. 1467-1548. King of Poland 1506-. Acquired Prussia 1525.

Sigismund. 1368-1437. King of Hungary 1387-, Germans 1411-, Lombardy 1431-, HRE 1433-. Helped end Schism. Executed Huss.

Signac, Paul. 1863-1935. French Neo-Impressionist Pointilist painter. Seurat.

Sigurdsson, Jon. 1811-79. Icelandic statesman. Led self-government movement.

Silas, St. Christian missionary with St Paul.

Silesia. c300BC Vandal. c4C Slav. 11C Polish. 1163 Divided. 13C German colony/Tatars invade. 1335 Bohemia. 15C Divided. 1526 Hapsburg. 1675 Bohemia. 1694 Austria. 1742 Prussia. 1921 Czechoslovakia/Poland/Germany. 1938/9 German. 1945 Poland/GDR.

Silesian Wars. 1740-5. Prussia takes Silesia from Austria. Austrian Succession.

Sillitoe, Alan. 1928-. English writer of working class life. Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1959.

Siloé, Diego de. c1495-1563. Spanish Renaissance sculptor, Plateresque architect. Granada Cathedral.

Simenon, Georges. 1903-89. Belgian writer of political and detective novels. Commissaire Maigret.

Simon of Cyrene. Carried Jesus’ cross.

Singapore. 13-14C Malay city. 1377 Javanese destroy. 1819 Raffles refounds. 1867 «Straits Settlements. 1942-45 Japanese occupy. 1946 British Crown Colony. 1963 Federation of Malaysia. 1965 Independent republic.

Sino-Soviet Treaty. 1945. Mutual defence vs Japanese agression.

Sisley, Alfred. 1839-99. English/French Impressionist painter. Meadows in Spring.

Siward. -1055. Danish earl of Northumbria. Helped Edward the Confessor. Defeated Macbeth.

Six, les. 1917-74. French composers initiated Neoclassical. Milhaud. Honegger.

Six Acts. 1819. Suppressed Radicals after Peterloo.

Six Articles, Statute. 1539-1547. Henry VIII’s statement of Church of England doctrine. Persecuted both adamant Catholics and Protestants.

Slavophile. 19C Russian intellectual movement. Believed in superiority of Russian culture.

Smoot-Hawley Act. 1930-37. US tarrifs begin trade war, deepening Depression.

Smyrna. =Izmir. 3000BC Greek city in Turkey. 600BC Lydian. 4C Greek 1425 Ottoman. 1920-2. Greeks occupy, massacre.

Soane, John. 1753-1837. English Neoclassical architect, collector. Bank of England 1792-1833.

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