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1181 matches to Walther von der Vogelwelde
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.
Ticonderoga, Battle. 1775. Green Mountain Boys defeat British, capture Fort Ticonderoga.
Tilak, Bal. 1856-1920. Indian leader. United Hindus, Moslems vs British 1916.
Tilsit, Treaties. 1807. Russia, Prussia join Continental System. Russia free to attack Finland. Prussia surrenders to Napoleon, reduced in size. France controls Central Europe. Creates Warsaw Duchy, Westphalia.
Tito, Josip Broz. 1892-1980. Yugoslav WWII Partisan leader. Led government 1945-. President 1953-, for life 1974-. Defied Stalin 1948.
Togliatti, Palmiro. 1893-1964. Co-founder, Italian Communist Party. Leader 1926-.
Tokugawa Mitsukuni. 1628-1700. Feudal leader, key to History of Great Japan 1658-1906.
Tone, Wolfe. 1763-98. Irish nationalist leader, rebel. Led French force to Ireland 1798. Suicide. United Irishmen.
Tordesillas, Treaties. 1494. Spain, Portugal divide colonies in America and East according to Demarcation Bull of Alexander VI. Spain west, Portugal east of 48.5°W.
Torquemada, Tomás de. 1420-98. Dominican Inquisitor General, Spain. Worst atrocities. Expelled Jews 1492.
Transcendental Meditation. Based on Vedas. Modern movement established by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 1958.
Travis, William. 1811-36. Texas revolutionary commander killed at Alamo.
Trenchard, Hugh. 1873-1956. British Flying Corps Commander. “Father of the RAF” 1918.
Trent Affair. 1861. US sieze British mail ship in Civil War, remove two Confederate commissioners.
Trianon Treaty. 1920. WWI Allies settle Hungarian borders at 1/3 of pre-war size.
Trotsky. Lev Bronstein. 1879-1940. Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, with Lenin anti-Stalin. “Worldwide Permanent Revolution”-socialism in Russia requires revolution everywhere. Favoured International Communism over Stalin’s Russian nationalism. Organized First Soviet 1905. Twice banished to Siberia by Czar. 1918 War Commissar...Red Army. Banished by Stalin 1929. Murdered in exile in Mexico.
Troubadours. 11-13C. Wandering lyric poets of south France and Italy.
Trucial States. 1820-1971. 7 Arab emirates under British protectorate, renewed truces annually. United Arab Emirates.
Turkmenistan. 4CBC Alexander. 7C Arabs. 13C Golden Horde. 15C Persia/Uzbek. 1881 Russia. 1925 Turkemistan SSR. 1991 Independent. CIS. Niyazov.
Two Thousand Words. 1968. Czech proclamation supporting Dubcek reforms prompts Russian Invasion.
Tylor, Edward. 1832-1917. British founder of cultural anthropology.
Tyrconnel, Duke of. 1630-91. Irish Jacobite leader 1689-. Defeated at Boyne.
Tyre. c2000BC Phoenicia. 14C Egypt. 9C Founded Carthage. 8C Assyria. 538 Persia. 332 Alexander...Seleucid. 125 Autonomous. 68BC Rome. 636 Moslem. 1124 Kingdom of Jerusalem. 1291 Mameluks destroy.
Tyrrell, George. 1861-1909. British Jesuit Modernist. Applied historical methods to theology. Excommunicated.
Uganda. 1844 Arab traders reach. 1862 British explore. 1894 British protectorate. 1962 Independent. Amin.