Cauchon, Pierre. 1371-1442. Bishop of Beauvais, judged Joan of Arc.

Cauchy, Augustin. 1789-1857. French mathematician.

Caudillo. Latin US term for military-backed leader.

Cavalcanti, Guido. c1255-1300. Florentine poet.

Cavalier, Jean. 1681-1740. Led Camisards 1702-4.

Cavalier Parliament. 1661-79. Royalist. Repressive laws against Puritans and Catholics.

Cavalier Party. 1660-88. Royalists. Became Tory.

Cavalier Poets. 17C Royalists. Lovelace. Herrick.

Cavaliere, Emilio del. c1550-1602. Added arias and choral movements to cantatas. Early dramatic music.

Cavaliers. Royalist partisans in English Civil War.

Cavell, Edith. 1865-1915. British nurse in Brussels. Executed by Germans for helping POWs escape.

Cavendish, Henry. 1731-1810. English chemist, physicist. Disc. hydrogen, 1766. Synthesis of water.

Caventou, J.B. 1795-1877. Discovered chlorophyll, 1817, with Pelletier.

Cavour, Count. 1810-61. Founding editor Il Risorgimento, 1847-. First Prime Minister of united Italy 1852-. Plombieres.

Caxton, William. c1422-91. Printed first English book 1473/4. First printer in England, 1476. Published Chaucer, Aesop. First woodcuts appear in Game and Playe of Chesse 1476. First poster 1477.

Cayley, George. 1773-1857. Flying machine 1796. First manned glider flight 1853.

CCF. 1932. Cooperative Commonwealth Federation. Canadian Socialist party. 1961 =New Democratic Party.

Ceausescu, Nicolae. 1918-89. Repressive Romanian dictator, 1965-. Advocated independence from USSR and western ties. Economic policy led to food, energy shortages. Overthrown and executed.

Cecilia, St. 2-3C. Patron saint of music.

Cecrops. Mythological first king of Athens. Snake-man.

Celestial Empire. Chinese Empire.

Celestine V, St. 1209-96. Founded Celestines 1264. 1294 First Pope to abdicate. Imprisoned by Boniface VIII.

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. 1894-1961. French writer: Voyage au bout de la nuit 1932.

Cellini, Benvenuto. 1500-71. Florentine Mannerist sculptor, goldsmith. Saltcellar of Francis I 1543. Autobiography 1561.

Celsius, Anders. 1701-44. Swedish physicist: centigrade temperature scale 1742.

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