Tamworth Manifesto. 1834. Peel’s moderate reforms as British Conservative Party platform.

T’ang. 618-907. Chinese dynasty. Golden Age. Overthrown by provincial warlords.

Tanganyika. Bantu. 18C Masai. 18-19C Slave source. 1871 Stanley, Livingstone. German East Africa. 1919 British mandate = Tanganyika. 1946 United Nations Trust. 1961 Independent. 1962 Republic. 1964 +Zanzibar=Tanzania. Nyerere.

Tangier. 15C BC Phoenicia. Carthage. Rome = Tingis. 429 Vandal. 541 Byzantine. 621 Visigoth. c682 Moslem. 1471-17C Spain, Portugal dispute. 1661 English. 1684 Morocco. 1923 International neutral port. 1940-45 Spanish occupy. 1956 Morocco.

Tangun. Mythical First King of Koreans 2333BC-.

Tannenberg, Battle. 1410. Victory of Poles and Lithuanians ends Teutonic Knights’ expansion. 1914. Germans rout 2 Russian armies, crippling them for rest of WWI.

Tannhäuser. c1200-70. German legendary knight, poet who lived in the court of Venus.

Tantalus. Son of Zeus, punished by receding fruit and water.

Tantras. 6-7C Hindu, Buddhist holy books.

Taoism. 6C BC Chinese philosophy. Lao-tzu wrote Tao-te-Ching. Natural course is through passivity, elimination of desire.

Tappan, Arthur. 1786-1865. US abolitionist. Founded Anti-Slavery Society 1833.

Taraori, Battles. 1191-2. Moslems conquer northern India.

Tarbell, Ida. 1857-1944. US Muckraker writer. Life of Abraham Lincoln 1900.

Tardieu, André. 1876-1945. French politician. Paris Peace Conference. Prime Minister 1929~32.

Targowica, Confederation. 1792. Conservative Poles begin war. Second partition 1793.

Tariff of Abominations. 1828 US protective tariff leads to Calhoun’s Nullification.

Tariff Reform League. 1903-6. Chamberlain presses for Imperial Preference.

Tariq.-c720. Led First Moslem invasion of Spain 711.

Tarkington, Booth. 1869-1946. US writer. Alice Adams 1921.

Tarkovsky, Andrei. 1932-86. Russian poetic filmmaker. Stalker. Sacrifice.

Tarpeian Rock. Rome. Tarpeia, who betrayed Rome to Sabines is buried beneath. Traitors thrown to death from it.

Tarquinius Priscus. Roman king 616-578BC. Built Forum, Circus Maximus.

Tarquinius Sextus. Rape of Lucrece 510BC sparks revolt, end of Tarquin dynasty. Roman Republic begins.

Tarquinius Superbus. Cruel last king of Rome 534-510BC. Tarquinius Sextus’ father.

Tarquins. 616-510BC. Etruscan kings of Rome.

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