Dimitrov, Georgi. 1882-1949. Bulgarian Communist leader. Prime Minister 45-. Acquitted of Reichstagg fire.

Disraeli, Benjamin. 1804-81. English radical Imperialist Tory Prime Minister 1868,74-80. Suez Purchase. Novelist:Henrietta Temple 1837. Sybil. Coningsby. Lothair 1870.

Dissolution of Monasteries. 1536, small; 1539, large. Henry VIII siezes wealth of church.

Douglas, Stephen. 1813-61. US politician. Compromise of 1850. Popular Sovereignty. Lost presidential campaign to Lincoln.

Doumergue, Gaston. 1863-1937. French Prime Minister 1910-11, President 1924-31. Instability.

Doyle, Arthur Conan. 1859-1930. British doctor, mystery writer and creator of Sherlock Holmes. Study in Scarlet 1887.

Drang nach Osten. Historic German wish for eastward expansion cited by Hitler.

Dreyfus, Alfred. 1859-1935. Jewish French officer. Trial divided France, 1894-1906. Unjustly sent to Devil’s Island on forged evidence. Zola. Esterhazy.

Dudley. Leicester, Earl of.

Duplessis, Maurice. 1890-1959. Canadian founder Union Nationale party. Quebec Prime Minister 1936~59.

Dyarchy. 1919. System of shared local/British power in India. Led to Indian autonomy.

East-West Schism. 1054. Separation of Roman and Eastern Catholic churches over filioque.

Easter Rebellion. 1916. Ireland. Irish Free State.

Eastern Crisis. 1839-41. British suppression of Muhammed Ali’s Egyptian expansion.

Eastern Empire. Byzantine Empire.

Eastern Orthodoxy. Branch of Christianity. East-West Schism.

Eastern Question. 19-20C. Instability caused by decline of Turkish rule led to Crimean War and WWI.

Eckhart, Johannes. c1260-1328. German mystic. “All existence is God” 1281.

Eden, Anthony. 1897-1977. British Prime Minister 55-7. Resigned over Suez Crisis.

Edward the Confessor, St. c1003-66. Anglo Saxon king 1041-. Founded Westminster Abbey. Conquered Wales. Died without heir, prompting Norman Invasion.

Eiffel Tower. 1889. 320.75m high. 1652 steps. Opened for World Exhibition, Paris.

Einstein, Albert. 1879-1955. German/Swiss/US physicist. Special Theory of Relativity 1905. Quantum theory 1905. General Theory of Relativity 1916. Pacifist, Zionist.

Eisenstein, Sergei. 1898-1948. Russian filmmaker: Potemkin 1925. Alexander Nevsky 1938.

Eisner, Kurt. 1867-1919. German Socialist Revolutionary leader. First Bavarian Prime Minister.

Eistedfodd. 6C-. Congress of Welsh bards and minstrels to foster patriotic spirit.

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