Blest Gana. 1830-1920. Chilean novelist. Arithmetic of Love 1862.

Bloch, Ernest. 1880-1959. Swiss/US neoclassical composer. Jewish themes. America 1926.

Blondin, Charles. 1824-97. French tightrope walker over Niagara, 1859.

Bloody Sunday. 1887. Police kill 2 Socialists in Trafalgar Square Riot. 1905. Slaughter of petitioners to Winter Palace of Nicholas II leads to Russian Revolution. 1972. 13 killed in Londonderry riot.

Bloomsbury Group. 1907-30. Agnostic English intellectuals searching for good, true, beautiful. Forster, Woolf, Keynes, Russell, Huxley, et.al.

Blücher, Gebhardt von. 1742-1819. Prussian general at Waterloo.

Blue Stockings. 1750s French literary salon held by educated women.

Blum, Léon. 1872-1950. French Socialist Prime Minister 1936-7. 40 hr. week.

Boccador, Il. -1549. Architect Paris Hotel de Ville, 1533.

Bodel, Jean. 1167-1210. Wrote first French miracle play. Play of St. Nicholas 1200.

Bodhidharma. (Daruma). 6C Indian monk in China. Founded Ch’an Buddhism =Zen.

Bodin, Jean. 1530-96. French political philosopher. Advocated democratic monarchy.

Boers. 17-19C Dutch settlers in South Africa. Great Trek.

Boffrand, Germain. 1667-1754. French architect. Palais Bourbon 1710.

Bogomils. 9-15C. Slavic ascetic Christian cult. All matter created by the devil.

Bohemia. Celts. 5-6C Slavs. 9C Unified. 1061 HRE. 10C + Moravia + Silesia + Galicia. 1158 Kingdom. 1526 Hapsburg. 1918 Czechoslovakia. 1939-45 German. 1993 Czech Republic.

Boileau, Nicolas. 1636-1711. French writer: Satires 1658.

Bollandists. 1629-. Belgian Jesuits. Update Acta Santorium, (Lives of Roman Catholic saints).

Bologna, Concordat. 1516. Control over French church given to king.

Boltzmann, Ludwig. 1844-1906. Austrian physicist. Statistical Mechanics, 1870.

Boniface VIII. c1235-1303. Pope 1294-. Claimed supremacy over kings. Captured by French adviser.

Bonivard, François de. 1494-1570. Prior of St. Victori, Geneva. Reformer, imprisonned at Chillon, 1530-4. Subject of Byron poem.

Bonnard, Pierre. 1867-1947. French colorist, portrait artist.

Bonus Army. 1932. US WWI vets march to demand accelerated bonus payment. Dispersed by force.

Book of Common Prayer. 1549. Church of England official prayer book.

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