Sighs, Bridge of. c1600. Venice. Connects Doge Palace court to prison.

Sigismund III. Vasa. 1566-1632. King of Poland 1587-, Sweden 1592-99. Captured Moscow 1610-12.

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

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

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.

Simeon II. 1937-. Last czar of Bulgaria 1943-6. 1946-96 Exiled. 1998 Properties returned.

Simony. Trading in church offices, sacred objects. Banned by Council of Chalcedon 451, and in England since Edward VI.

Sinn Fein. 1905. (=Ourselves Alone). Irish Nationalist movement. 1916 uprising. Founded Irish Free State. Legalized as political party in Northern Ireland, 1974. Political wing of IRA. De Valera.

Siqueiros, David. 1896-1974. Mexican socialist mural painter. Third World. March of Humanity.

Sirens. Greek sea nymphs, half bird, half woman. Song lured sailors onto rocks.

Sitting Bull. c1831-90. Led Sioux at Little Bighorn. Surrendered 1881.

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

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

Skinner, B. F. 1904-90. US Behaviourist psychologist.

Slansky Trial. 1952. Jewish Czech communists purged during Stalin anti-semitism. Those executed were restored to party membership 1968.

Slavery. Babylon. Egypt. Greece. Rome. European colonies 1440s-19C. 1502 First blacks shipped to America. 1562- Trade. 1807 abolished in Britain, 1833 throughout Empire. 1816 Morocco abolished Christian slaves. 1851 Colombia, 1861 USA, 1930 Liberia. 2001 27M slaves in Mauritania, Sudan, Asia, Brazil.

Slavonia. Pannonia. Balkans. 11C Hungary. 16C Turks. 1699 Hapsburg. 1848 Austria. 1868 Croatia.

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

Slavs. Asian peoples. c2500BC migrated to eastern Europe. 5-6C to Bohemia, Moravia, Hungary, Balkans.

Slim, William. 1891-1970. British WWII general. Defeated Japan in Burma.

Slovenia. Balkans. 6C Slovenes settle. 748 Franks dominate. 9C Franks split...German kingdom. 1335 Hapsburg. 1918 Yugoslavia. 1991 Independent.

Smith, Adam. 1723-1790. Scottish economist. Doctrine of free exchange. Natural law of supply and demand. Wealth of Nations 1776. -“Labour is source of all wealth”.

Smith, Edmund. 1824-93. Last Confederate general to surrender 1865.

Smith, John. c1580-1631. English adventurer saved by Pocahontas. Founded Jamestown.

Smith, Joseph. 1805-44. US Founder of Mormonism. Wrote Book of Mormon by divine revelation 1830. Murdered.

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