Czar. (Tsar) 1547-1918. Emperor of Russia.

Daily Telegraph Affair. 1908. Unauthorized interview of Kaiser causes protests in Germany.

Dalai Lama. 14C- Leader of Tibetan Buddhists. Ruled Tibet until 1959 exile to India. Lamaism. Yellow Hats. Tenzin Gyatso.

Dalou, Jules. 1838-1902. French Baroque sculptor of public monuments.

Dance, George. (The Younger). 1741-1825. English Neoclassical architect College of Surgeons 1813. Founder, Royal Academy.

Darnley, Lord. 1545-67. 2nd husband of Mary Queen of Scots. Assassinated.

Daughters of the American Revolution. 1890-. Patriotic organization of revolutionaries’ descendants.

Dawes Act. 1887. US law granting citizenship and land rights to individual Indians.

De La Tour, George. 1593-1652. French Caravaggist painter. Cheater with the Ace of Diamonds.

De Mille, Cecil B. 1881-1959. US. First US Feature film. Squaw Man 1913. Ten Commandments 1923, 1956. Epics.

Dead Sea Scrolls. 3C BC-1C AD. Old Testament texts of Essenes. Discovered at Qumrum, 1947.

Decadents. 19C. Writers who believed art should be above conventional morality. Mallarmé. Wilde. Verlaine.

Decalogue. Ten Commandments.

Decembrists. 1825. Conspiracy to overthrow Czar Nicholas I. Betrayed. Established Russia’s revolutionary tradition.

Declaration of Rights. 1689. Rights, Bill of.

Declaration of the Rights of Man. 1789. Rights of Man, Declaration.

Decorated English Architecture. 1250-1375. Introduced lighting and shade effects. York Minster.

Defenestration of Prague. 1419. Hussites eject aldermen. 1618. Protestants throw regents out window. Begins Thirty Years War.

Delany, Martin. 1812-85. US black physician. Founded Mystery newspaper for black rights.

Delhi Durbar. 1911. George V holds court in Delhi. Only occasion of its kind.

Delhi Pact. 1931. Civil disobedience in India ceased in exchange for prisoner release. 1950. India, Pakistan restore rights, freedom of movement for refugees.

Della-Cruscans. 18C. English poets of sentimental Italian verse.

Democratic Centralists. 1919-27. Russian Communists opposed to authoritarianism and bureaucracy.

Deng Xiaoping. 1902-97. Chinese Communist leader 1973~. Purged by Mao, rehabilitated. Tiananmen.

Desert Storm. 1991. Gulf War.

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