Black Prince. Son of Edward III. Captured King John II of France at Poitiers, 1356.

Black War. 1804-30. Tasmanian natives defeated by European settlers.

Black Watch. 1725-. Scottish Highland Regiment.

Blackbeard (Edward Teach). -1718. English pirate in West Indies.

Blackstone, William. 1723-80. English common law scholar/jurist. Commentaries 1765-9.

Blake, Robert. 1599-1657. English Commonwealth admiral.

Blake, William. 1757-1827. English mystical poet and engraver of his own books. Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1790-3. Job 1821. Dante’s Divine Comedy 1825.

Blanc, Louis. 1811-82. French Utopian Socialist. Theory of equal wages. National Workshops. Organization du Travail 1839.

Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider). 1911-14. Organization of Abstract Expressionist artists. Kandinsky. Klee.

Bleeding Kansas. 1854-59. Antislavery vs Slavery advocates for control of Kansas. Wyandotte Constitution.

Blenheim, Battle. 1704. Bavaria. Marlborough’s victory in War of Spanish Succession. First French defeat in 50 years, saves Vienna.

Bligh, William. 1754-1817. English captain of Bounty. Discovered breadfruit.

Blitzkrieg. 1938-45. German battle tactic. Rapid, deep assault with tanks supported from air.

Bloch, Ernest. 1880-1959. Swiss/US neoclassical composer. Jewish themes. America 1926.

Blondin, Charles. 1824-97. French tightrope walker over Niagara, 1859.

Blood, Thomas. 1628-80. Attempted to steal British crown jewels 1671.

Bloody Sunday. 1887. Police kill 2 Socialists in Trafalgar Square Riot. 1905. Slaughter of petitioners to Winter Palace of Nicholas II leads to Russian Revolution. 1972. 13 killed in Londonderry riot.

Bloody Week. 1871. Paris Commune toppled. 20,000 dead.

Bloomer, Amelia. 1818-94. US temperance, women’s rights activist. Wore bloomers.

Bloomsbury Group. 1907-30. Agnostic English intellectuals searching for good, true, beautiful. Forster, Woolf, Keynes, Russell, Huxley, et.al.

Blow, John. 1649-1708. Westminster organist. First English opera, Venus and Adonis 1685.

Blücher, Gebhardt von. 1742-1819. Prussian general at Waterloo.

Blue Laws. US laws that control Sunday activities. 1781 originals on blue paper.

Blue Stockings. 1750s French literary salon held by educated women.

Blum, Léon. 1872-1950. French Socialist Prime Minister 1936-7. 40 hr. week.

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