Boston Tea Party. 1773. Colonials dump tea cargo to protest tax. Led to Intolerable Acts.

Bourgeoisie. French merchant, craft class. Marxist term for those who do not live by the sale of their labour. Proletariat.

Bourguiba, Habib. 1903-2000. Tunisian Nationalist president 1956-87. Moderate socialist.

Boyacá, Battle. 1819. South American rebels win independence from New Granada from Spain. Bolivar. Santander.

Brabant Revolution. 1789-90. Belgians vs Hapsburgs. Crushed by Austrian forces.

Braille, Louis. 1809-1852. French inventor of raised alphabet for the blind, 1824.

Brancusi, Constantin. 1876-1957. Romanian abstract sculptor. Bird in Space 1919.

Brandywine, Battle. 1777. British victory in American Revolution. Diversion led to loss at Saratoga.

Braque, Georges. 1882-1963. French painter. Developed Cubism with Picasso. First living artist in Louvre. Man with Guitar 1911.

Brazil. 1500 Cabral discovers. 1532 Portuguese colonize. 1808-22 Seat of Portugal monarchy. 1822 Independent monarchy. 1828 -Uruguay. 1891 Republic.

Brazzaville Declaration. 1944. Established colonial representation in French parliament, but not autonomy.

Brendan, St. 484-578. Celtic abbot, legendary Atlantic navigator to North America.

Breton Succession War. 1341-65. Reestablishd Montfort rule in Brittany.

Britons. 6C BC-6C Celtic inhabitants of England.

Brittany. Inhab c3500BC. Celts. 57BC Rome. 5-6C Britons (Celts) re-settle. 12C Capetian. 1365 Montfort Dukedom. 1532 France.

Brown, John. 1800-59. US slavery abolitionist. Harper’s Ferry. Hung.

Brown, Lancelot “Capability”. 1715-83. English landscape architect. Created the definitive “English Garden”: assymmetric, harmonious, accidental. Blenheim. Prior Park.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. 1806-61. English poet: Sonnets from the Portuguese 1848. Aurora Leigh 1857. Wife of Robert.

Brumaire, Coup of 18. Napoleon abolished Directory, est’d Consulate.

Buchenwald. 1937-45. Nazi concentration camp. Medical research, slave labour. 52,500 dead.

Bukhari, al. 810-870. Arab scholar. Collected sayings of Mohammed.

Bukharin, Nikolay. 1888-1938. Russian Bolshevik. Shot in Stalin’s Purge. Rehabilitated 1988.

Bunyan, Paul. Legendary US giant lumberjack with blue ox Babe.

Cabal. 1667-73. Charles II’s advisers: Clifford, Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley, Lauderdale.

Cabala. 12C. Jewish mystical scripture interpretation.

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