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

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

Czar. (Tsar) 1547-1918. Emperor of Russia.

Czech Republic. Bohemia + Moravia. 1918 Czechoslovakia. 1993 Independent.

Czechoslovakia. 1918 Formed in breakup of Austro-Hungarian Empire. 1920 Little Entente. 1938 -Sudetenland. 1939-45 German occupation. 1949 People’s Democratic Republic. 1968 Prague Spring. 1991 Republic. 1993 Split into Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Czechoslovakia Intervention. 1968. Russian troops end Dubcek reform policies. Warsaw Pact maintains right to intervene anywhere Socialism is threatened.

Dachau. 1933-45. Nazi concentration camp.

Dacia. Ancient name for Romania.

Dada. Anarchistic, deliberately shocking “non-art” begun in Zurich, 1916. Led to Surrealism. Arp. Duchamp. Ernst.

Daedalus. Builder of the Crete labyrinth. Escaped Minos with artificial wings. Icarus.

Dagobert I-III. Merovingian French kings in 7-8C.

Daguerre, Jacques. 1789-1851. French inventor of Daguerrotype photographic process 1837.

Dahomey. 1610 Kingdom. Flourished 18-19C. Benin.

Daily Telegraph Affair. 1908. Unauthorized interview of Kaiser causes protests in Germany.

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

Daimyo. 8C-1869. Japanese feudal lords.

Daladier, Édouard. 1884-1970. French Prime Minister, 1933~40. Munich Agreement.

Dalai Lama. 14C- Leader of Tibetan Buddhists. Ruled Tibet until 1959 exile to India. Lamaism. Yellow Hats. Tenzin Gyatso.

Dale, Henry. 1875-1968. English physiologist. Nerve transmission process.

Dalhousie, First Marquess. 1812-60. British Governor General of India 1847-56. Annexed Punjab, 1849, Rangoon, Burma. Built railway, telegraph. Lapse doctrine caused Indian Mutiny.

Dali, Salvador. 1904-89. Spanish Surrealist painter of nightmare visions. Persistence of Memory. Crucifixion.

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.

Dalton, John. 1766-1844. English scientist. Law of Partial Pressures. Color blindness 1793.

Damascus. c2500BC. World’s oldest continuously inhabited city. Syria.

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