Thirty Years’ Peace. 445-415BC Ended First Peloponnesian War.

Thirty Years War. 1618-48. Protestant revolt vs Holy Roman Empire involving most European states. Peace of Westphalia. Spain, HRE lose influence; Denmark finished as power; France dominant; Sweden controls Baltic. Religious toleration. Use of muskets, canons developed.

Thistlewood, Arthur. 1774-1820. English failed Cato St Conspiracy.

Thököly, Imre. 1657-1705. Led Hungarian Protestant rebels vs Austria. Besieged Vienna with Turks 1683.

Thomas, Dylan. 1914-53. Welsh poet. Under Milk Wood 1953.

Thomas Aquinas, St. 1225-74. Italian Dominican scholar. 5 Proofs of God. An eternal law governs all physical and moral behaviour. Summa Theologica. Thomism. Reconciled Aristotle’s reason with Christian faith.

Thompson, David. 1770-1857. Explored western US, Columbia River.

Thompson, Robert Wm. 1845 First pneumatic tires.

Thor. Scandinavian god of thunder and war.

Thoreau, Henry. 1817-62. US naturist, anarchist essayist: Civil Disobedience 1848. Walden 1854.

Thorndike, Edward. 1874-1949. US psychologist. Developed children’s intelligence test. Animal Intelligence 1898-1901.

Thrace. Region of SE Balkan peninsula. c700BC Greek colonies. c512-480BC Persia. 4C BC Macedonia. 1C BC Rome...Byzantine. 7C Bulgaria(N). 1453 Ottoman. Post WWI split Turkey/Greece/Bulgaria.

Three Henrys War. 1585-89. French War of Religion. Henri de Guise fails to depose Henry III. Executed. Henry III murdered. Henry of Navarre takes throne.

Three Holy Children. Biblical Hebrews who survived Nebuchadnezzar’s furnace. Apocrypha.

Three Kingdoms. 220-280. Wei, Wu, Shu Han division of China between Han, Chin dynasties.

Three Mile Island. 1979. US nuclear power station accident.

Three Wise Men. Magi visited Jesus in Bethlehem. Guided by star.

Thresher. 1963. US submarine sinks with all aboard.

Thucydides. 5C BC. Greek historian of Peloponnesian Wars. Objective historical science.

Thule. Northern island discovered by Greeks 4C BC. Iceland, Shetlands or Norway?

Thurber, James. 1894-1961. US humorist. Secret Life of Walter Mitty 1942. New Yorker Cartoons 1931-40.

Tibet. 7C-838 Buddhist kingdom. 9C Divided. 1247 Mongol. 14C Yellow Hats established. 1642 5th Dalai Lama becomes ruler. 1715 Chinese suzerainty. 1792 Closed to foreigners. 1951 Autonomous within China. 1959 China crushes revolt. 1987~9 Riots vs Chinese rule.

Tibetan Buddhism. Yellow Hats. Dalai Lama.

Tientsin Massacre. 1870. 20 French killed. China apologizes. End of China/Western co-operation.

Tiffany, Louis. 1848-1933. US art-nouveau decorator. Colored glass works.

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