Château Clique. Small merchant group dominated government of Lower Canada to 1830s.

Chateaubriand. 1768-1848. French Romantic writer: d’Atala 1801. Memoirs d’outre-tombe.

Chatterton, Thomas. 1752-70. English poet. Forerunner of Romantics. Suicide.

Chaucer, Geoffrey. c1340-1400. English poet. Canterbury Tales, printed 1477.

Chaykovsky, Nikolai. 1850-1926. Russian Socialist. Opposed Bolsheviks. Led counterrevolutionary government 1918-20.

Che. 15C school of Ming painters in 12-13C style.

Checkers Speech. 1952. US VP Nixon denies personal gain from campaign funds on TV.

Cheever, John. 1912-82. US writer of middle-class America. Wapshot Chronicle 1957.

Cheka. 1917-22. Russian secret police. GPU.

Chekhov, Anton. 1860-1904. Russian melancholic cynical novelist/dramatist: Seagull, Three Sisters.

Chénier, André de. 1762-94. French poet. Elegies. Guillotined.

Cheops. c2600BC. Egyptian pharaoh, largest pyramid.

Chernobyl. 1986. Ukraine nuclear power plant disaster.

Cherokee. Indian tribe removed 1838-9 to Oklahoma. Trail of Tears.

Cherubini, Luigi. 1760-1842. Italian/French composer. Classical form; French opera.

Chess. 7C Indian game evolved from earlier board games with carved pieces. 750 China. 10C Moslems brought to Europe. 1254 banned by Louis IX.

Chester, Battle. 613. Welsh vs Saxons.

Chesterton, G.K. 1874-1936. English satirical essayist/novelist: Napoleon of Notting Hill 1904. “Socialism aims to take capital out of the hands of the few and put it into the hands of the fewer-the politicians.”

Chetniks. 1907-45. Serbian nationalist guerillas.

Chevalier, Maurice. 1888-1972. French singer and actor. Innocents of Paris 1929.

Chevreuse, Duchesse de. 1600-79. Plot vs Richelieu. Important role in the Fronde.

Chevrolet, Louis. 1879-1941. Fndr Chev. Motor Co. 1904.

Cheyenne. American Plains Indians.

Chiang Ch’ing. 1914-91. Chinese radical. Mao’s wife. Gang of Four.

Chiang Kai-shek. 1887-1975. Chinese Kuomintang leader 1928-. In Taiwan 1949-.

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