Cuban Revolution. 1956-9. Castro overthrows Batista.

Cuchulain. Legendary powerful Irish warrior.

Culhwch + Olwen. c1100. Earliest Arthurian romance.

Culpeper’s Rebellion. 1677-79. Carolina colonists vs England. Establish their own government.

Cuneiform. 3000-1C BC. Sumerian writing form in clay with triangular pointed stick. Spread widely.

Cunningham, Andrew. 1883-1963. WWII admiral, British chief of naval staff 1943-6.

CWA. Civil Works Admin. US New Deal project employed 4M.

Cynewulf. c750. English religious poet. Ascension.

Cyprus. Stone, Bronze Age civilizations. 1450BC Egypt. 1200BC Greek. 1000 Phoenicia. 709 Assyria. 569 Egypt. 6C Persia. 333 Macedonia. 294 Egypt. 47BC Rome...330 AD Byzantine. 7C Moslem. 1191 Crusaders. 1489 Venice. 1571 Turk. 1878 British lease...1914 Britain annexes. 1927 Crown Colony. 1960 Republic. 1963-4 Civil War, Greece and Turkey intervene. 1974 Turkey invades, partition.

Cyprus Revolt. 1925-31. For union with Greece.

Cyrano de Bergerac. 1619-65. French large nosed satirical writer. La Mort d’Agrippine 1654.

Cyril, St. c444. Patriarch of Alexandria. Deported Nestor. Lynched Hypatia. Launched pogroms against Jews. Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon.

Cyrus. -529BC. Founded Persian Empire 550-. Defeated Babylonia 539BC. Freed Jews.

Czechoslovakia Intervention. 1968. Russian troops end Dubcek reform policies. Warsaw Pact maintains right to intervene anywhere Socialism is threatened.

Dabrowski, Jan. 1755-1818. Polish general under Napoleon, hero in rebellion vs Russia.

Daedalus. Builder of the Crete labyrinth. Escaped Minos with artificial wings. Icarus.

Daigo II. 1287-1339. Japanese Emperor 1318-. Failed to ovethrow Shogunate. Exiled.

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.

Dalhousie, First Marquess. 1812-60. British Governor General of India 1847-56. Annexed Punjab, 1849, Rangoon, Burma. Built railway, telegraph. Lapse doctrine caused Indian Mutiny.

Dalton, John. 1766-1844. English scientist. Law of Partial Pressures. Color blindness 1793.

Damascus. c2500BC. World’s oldest continuously inhabited city. Syria.

Damocles. 4C BC. Dionysius suspended a sword by a single hair over his head at a banquet.

Damon and Pythias. Syracuse true friends. Damon pledged his life for Pythias’, awaiting execution.

Dampier, William. 1651-1715. First English scientific explorer. Pirate, 1678-91. New Voyage Round the World, 1697.

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