Dürer, Albrecht. 1471-1528. German painter, pioneer engraver. Apocalypse 1498. Grand Passion 1501. St Jerome 1513. 4 Apostles 1526.

Durkheim, Emile. 1858-1917. French sociologist. Division of Labour in Society 1893.

Duryea, Charles. 1861-1938. US inventor. Pneumatic tires, spray carburetor. First US automobile 1893.

Dutch East India Company. 1602-1798. Trade, colonies in Orient. Controlled Ceylon, Cape Colony, Jakarta.

Dutch Revolt. 1566-79. Calvinist north vs Spanish Hapsburgs. United Provinces. Spanish Armada.

Dutch Wars. 1672-8. French expansionism thwarted by United Provinces. Anglo-Dutch Wars.

Dutch West India Company. 1621-1794. Commercial and colonial interests in Africa, South America. Driven from Brazil, 1654, New York, 1667.

Duval, Claude. 1643-70. French/English gallant highwayman.

Dvorák, Antonin. 1841-1901. Czech Nationalist composer. New World Symphony 1893. Classical form with folk spontaneity.

Dyarchy. 1919. System of shared local/British power in India. Led to Indian autonomy.

Dyrrhachium, Battle. 48BC. Pompey defeats Caesar.

Ealdred. -1069. Anglo-Saxon archbishop of York 1060-: crowned William the Conqueror.

East India Companies. British, Dutch, French. Danish 1614-1729. Austrian, 1720-7.

East-West Schism. 1054. Separation of Roman and Eastern Catholic churches over filioque.

Eastern Orthodoxy. Branch of Christianity. East-West Schism.

Ebert, Friedrich. 1871-1925. First president of German Republic 1919-.

Echo. Greek mountain nymph.

École Militaire. 1752. French Royal Military Academy. Gabriel.

École Polytechnique. 1794-. French college of high repute. Replaced Navarre. Graduates are the “X”.

Ecumenicalism. 1846-. Movement to unite all Christian churches.

Eddy, Mary Baker. 1821-1910. US founder of Christian Science Religion. Wrote Science and Health 1875.

Ederle, Gertrude. 1906-. US. First woman to swim the English Channel, 1926.

Edgeworth, Richard. 1744-1817. English. Semaphore 1767.

Edison, Thomas. 1847-1931. US inventor: imp telephone 1877, phonograph 1877, lightbulb 1878, movies, cast concrete 1907. Menlo Park, first industrial research laboratory.

Edmund, St. c1175-1240. Archbishop of Canterbury, 1233-. Won reforms from Henry III.

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