Crazy Horse. c1842-1877. Sioux Indian chief vs Custer at Little Bighorn.

Crete, Battle. 1941. First German airborne invasion.

Cricket. 1598 derived from Club ball. 1877 First Test Match Australia/England.

Cristofori, Bartolomeo. 1655-1731. First piano, c1710.

Croatia. Balkans. 812 Croatia. 1089 +Hungary. 1527 Ottoman/Hapsburg. 1918 Yugoslavia. 1920 +Dalmatia. 1941 Independent. 1945 Yugoslavia. 1992 Independent Republic.

Cross, Richard. 1823-1914. British statesman: First urban renewal act.

Cuba. Ciboney, Arawak. 1492 Columbus discovers. 1511 Spanish colony. 1517 Slaves brought. 1898 US. Spanish-American War. 1902 Republic. 1957-9 Castro Revolution, Communist dictatorship.

Cuban Missile Crisis. 1962. Kennedy blockades Cuba to prevent Soviet missile installation.

Cuban Revolution. 1956-9. Castro overthrows Batista.

Culloden, Battle. 1746. Ended Jacobite Rebellion.

Cunaeus. Leyden jar battery 1745.

Cunaxa, Battle. 401BC. Failed revolt vs Artaxerxes II. Retreat of the Ten Thousand.

Custer, George. 1839-76. US general killed at Little Bighorn.

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

Cyrus the Younger. -401BC. Conspired vs Artaxerxes. Killed at Cunaxa.

Daimler, Gottlieb. 1834-1900. German. Gasoline engine, 1885. Automobile, 1886. Benz. Maybach.

Dalmatia. Balkans. 1420 Venice. 1797 Austria. 1920 Yugoslavia. 1941 Italy occupies. 1947 Yugoslavia. 1992 Croatia.

Dalou, Jules. 1838-1902. French Baroque sculptor of public monuments.

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

Danaïdes. 50 daughters of Danaus. 49 condemed to fill sieves for murdering their husbands. Hypermestra.

Dante Alighieri. 1265-1321. Italian moralist poet. First vernacular. Banquet 1306. Divine Comedy 1321, printed 1472.

Darius I. 550-486BC. Persian King 522-. Defeated by the Greeks at Marathon after expanding empire. Great builder and administrator.

Darnley, Lord. 1545-67. 2nd husband of Mary Queen of Scots. Assassinated.

Daumesnil, Gen. (Peg Leg). Defender of Vincennes, 1814. “Give me back my leg, and I’ll give you Vincennes.”

Davis, John. 1550-1605. British explorer, Davis Strait 1585, Falkland Is. 1592. Invented backstaff quadrant 1594.

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