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275 matches to San Francisco
Dunbarton Oaks Conference. 1944. UN organizational meeting. Yalta. San Francisco.
Golden Gate Bridge. 1937. San Francisco.
Hearst, Wm Randolph. 1863-1951. US newspaper giant: San Francisco Examiner.
San Francisco. 1769 Portola discovers bay. 1776 Mission founded. 1835 Yuerba Buena cove settled. 1846 US. 1847 = San Francisco. 1906 Earthquake, fire kill 315.
San Francisco, Conference. 1945. Signing of United Nations charter.
San Francisco, Peace. 1951. Japanese 1854 borders restored.
United Nations. UN. 1945. Charter signed by 50 nations at San Francisco. To safeguard world peace and protect human rights. Most countries members now. 15 agencies for education, relief. Trusteeship .
Yalta Conference. 1945. Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin. Decided partition of Europe after WWII. USSR enters war vs Japan. Potsdam. San Francisco Peace.
Yerba Buena. 1776-1846. Spanish mission...San Francisco.
Aegospotami. 405BC. Naval battle, ends Peloponnesian War. Victory of Lysander vs Athens.
Alamo. 1836. 200 Texan rebels die in siege vs Mexican Santa Anna. Crockett. Bowie.
Alberti, Leon. 1404-72. Italian Renaissance Man. Artist, poet, geographer, mathematician.
Alexis. 1629-76. Russian czar 1645-. Recognized serfdom. Northern War. Peasant Revolt 1667-71.
Anabaptists. 1520- Christian sect. Adult baptism. No clergy. Salvation via faith. Millenialist. Hutterites, Mennonites, Quakers. Peasants War.
Anthony, Susan B. 1820-1906. US temperence, anti-slavery suffragette.
Aristippus. 435-366BC. Cyrenaic philosopher: Man’s goal should be pleasure. Good=pleasant.
Arsacids. 247BC-224 AD. Parthian dynasty ruling Persia and Mesopotamia. Def by Sassanians.
Assandum, Battle. 1016. Danes defeat English in Essex.
Autumn Harvest Uprising. 1927. Failed Chinese peasant revolt led by Mao.
Averescu, Alexandru. 1859-1938. Romanian General and Prime Minister. Suppressed 1907 peasant revolt.
Ball, John. -1381. English priest. Led Peasants Revolt. Executed. Tyler.
Baroque Art. 1600-1750. Orig in Italy, spread across W. Europe. Architecture: Ornate style characterized by stucco, frescoes, rood screens. Vanbrugh. Bernini’s Barberini Palace. Music: Counterpoint vs Renaissance polyphony. Opera, cantata. Bach. Monteverdi. Vivaldi. Painting: Dynamic, emotional. Caravaggio. Reni. Rubens.Van Dyck. Rococo.
Bartolomeo, Fra. 1472-1517. Florentine master painter. High Renaissance Classical idealist. Lucca. Annunciation 1497.
Basel, Treaty. 1795. Spain cedes Santo Domingo to France.
Bassano. 1796. Victory of Napoleon over the Austrians.