Lebanon. 25C BC Phoenicia. 6C BC Persia. 332 Alexander. 64BC Rome. 5C Byzantine. 7C Moslems, Maronite Christians. 11C Druse(S). 1516 Ottoman. 1861 Christian autonomy under Ottomans. 1920 French mandate. 1926 Republic under France. 1943 Independent republic. 1975-91 Civil war.

Lechfeld, Battle. 955. Otto I halts Magyar expansion.

Le Corbusier. 1887-1965. Swiss Functionalist architecht, urbanist. -“A house is a machine to live in”.

Leeuwenhoek, Antony van. 1632-1723. Dutch. First to describe bacteria 1680, protozoa, corpuscles, spermatazoa 1675.

Legal Tender Act. 1862. US authorizes paper money without gold backing.

Leipzig, Battle. 1813. Napoleon loses Germany and Poland. 500,000 troops involved.

Leipzig Debate. 1519. Luther vs Eck. Both claim victory.

Le Lorrain, Robert. 1666-1743. French bas-relief sculptor.

Lemaître, Georges. 1894-1966. Belgian cosmologist. Big Bang theory of creation 1927.

Leo VI. 866-912. Byzantine Emperor. Compiled Basilica legal code.

Le Verrier, Urbain. 1811-77. French astronomer: predicted existence of Neptune by calculation, 1845.

Lepanto, Battle. 1571. Major Christian naval victory vs Turks, saving Cyprus.

Lesotho. Basutoland. c1800 Basotho kingdom. 1868 British. 1871 Cape Colony. 1884 British colony. 1966 Independent kingdom of Lesotho.

Lessing, Gotthold. 1729-81. German Movement dramatist. Laokoon 1765. Minna von Barnheim 1767. Nathan the Wise 1779.

Lettres de Cachet. 16C-1789. French royal warrants for arrest. Often political. Bastille.

Leuctra, Battle. 371BC. Thebes defeats Sparta, signalling decline.

Lewes, Battle. 1264. English barons capture Henry III and Prince Edward, force concessions.

Lewis, Sinclair. 1885-1951. US writer of small town life: Babbit 1922. Elmer Gantry 1927.

Lexington and Concord, Battle. 1775. First American Revolution battle. British march on Concord supply depot. Established guerilla warfare as colonist strategy. 273 British, 95 Americans killed. Paul Revere.

Leyte Gulf, Battle. Philippine Sea Battle.

Liber. Roman god of wine, fertility...Bacchus. = Dionysus.

Liberalism, Theological. 17C. Religious inquiry based on reason vs authority.

Liberty, Statue of. 1886. Bartholdi sculpture. Gift from France.

Lincoln, Battle. 1217. Henry III defeats nobles supporting Louis VIII of France.

Little America. Antarctic base founded by Byrd 1928.

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