Romanticism. 18C Philosophical movement rooted in Pietism. Began in Germany. Spread across Europe in 19C.

Rome. 753BC Legendary founding by Romulus and Remus. 616BC Etruscan. 509BC Roman Republic. 27BC Roman Empire. 248 Empire of the West. 395 Byzantine Empire. 410 Visigoths sack Rome. 476 Romulus Augustulus deposed. 493 Ostrogoth. 535 Byzantine. 774 Charlemagne’s Empire of the West. 962 Holy Roman Empire. 11C Norman. 12C Hohenstaufen. 1848 Republic. 1849 Papal States. 1870 Italy. 1929 -Vatican.

Rome, Treaty of. 1957. Established EEC, Atomic Energy policy.

Rommel, Erwin. 1891-1944. German WWII Field Marshal in Africa 1941-3, France 1944. “Desert Fox”. Plotted vs Hitler. Suicide.

Romulus. Twin brother of Remus. Suckled by a wolf, they built Rome.

Ronald. Pith ball electric telegraph 1816.

Roncesvalles, Battle. 778. Charlemagne ambushed in Pyrenees. Basis for Song of Roland.

R101. 1930. British airship, world’s largest, crashed in France.

Ronsard, Pierre de. 1524-85. French Pléiade poet. Odes 1550. Amours 1552. Franciade 1572.

Roosevelt, Franklin. 1882-1945. US president 1933-45. New Deal 1933-. Pacifist until Pearl Harbor. Four Freedoms.

Roosevelt, Theodore. 1858-1919. US president 1901-9 after McKinley assassination. Founded Bull Moose Party 1912. Led Rough Riders. Panama Canal Zone.

Root, Elihu. 1845-1937. US internationalist statesman. Agreements with Japan, Britain, Latin America. Disarmament Conference.

Root-Takahira Agreement. 1908. US-Japan. Maintains Open Door policy in China.

Rorschach, Hermann. 1884-1922. Swiss psychiatrist. Ink blot test 1921.

Rosa, Salvator. 1615-73. Italian poet, musician, Baroque painter.

Rosamund, Fair. c1140-1176. English Henry II’s mistress.

Roscelin. c1050-1125. First Nominalist 1089.

Rose of Lima, St. 1586-1617. Peruvian Dominican mystic. First American native saint. Patron Saint of South America.

Rosenberg, Alfred. 1893-1946. German Nazi ideologist. Executed.

Rosenberg, Julius, Ethel. 1918,1916-53. First US civilians executed for spying for Soviet Union.

Rosenkreuz, Christian. 15C. Legendary founder of Rosicrucian Society.

Roses, War of. 1455-85. York (white) vs Lancaster (red) for English throne. Lancaster rule ended. Henry VII (Tudor/Lancaster) married Elizabeth (York). Bosworth Field. Plantagenet.

Rosetta Stone. 196BC Multilingual stone used by Champollion to decipher hieroglyphics 1821.

Rosicrucians. 17C- Society claiming ancient mystical knowledge. Rosenkreuz.

Ross, James. 1800-62. Scottish discoverer of North magnetic pole 1831 with uncle John Ross.

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