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Cassini, César. 1714-84. Italian/French astronomer, cartographer of France.
Caste System. Hereditary social division, esp. in Hindu India. Brahman. Kshatriyas. Vaisyas. Sudras. Untouchables.
Cat and Mouse Act. Prisoners Temporary Discharge for Health Act. 1913. Released British suffragettes on hunger strikes.
Catacombs. (Paris) 1785. Former quarry turned into ossuary. Headquarters of WWII French Resistance.
Catalonia. Iberians. Colonized by Phoenicia, Greece, Carthage. c200BC Rome. 5C Goths. 712 Moors. c788 Charlemagne. 1137 +Aragon. 1932 Autonomous. 1939 Spain.
Cathars. 11-14C. Christian Gnostic heretic sect. Albigens. 1030 burned in Italy.
Cathay. Medieval name for N China. Polo.
Catherine de Medici. 1519-89. Wife of Henry II, mother of 3 French kings, built Tuileries Palace. St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.
Cauchon, Pierre. 1371-1442. Bishop of Beauvais, judged Joan of Arc.
Cauchy, Augustin. 1789-1857. French mathematician.
Cavaliere, Emilio del. c1550-1602. Added arias and choral movements to cantatas. Early dramatic music.
Cavendish, Henry. 1731-1810. English chemist, physicist. Disc. hydrogen, 1766. Synthesis of water.
Caventou, J.B. 1795-1877. Discovered chlorophyll, 1817, with Pelletier.
Caxton, William. c1422-91. Printed first English book 1473/4. First printer in England, 1476. Published Chaucer, Aesop. First woodcuts appear in Game and Playe of Chesse 1476. First poster 1477.
Cayley, George. 1773-1857. Flying machine 1796. First manned glider flight 1853.
Celestial Empire. Chinese Empire.
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. 1894-1961. French writer: Voyage au bout de la nuit 1932.
Central African Republic. 1891 French colony 1910 «French Equatorial Africa. 1958 Self-government. 1960 Independent. 1976-79 Central African Empire.
Centre Party. 1871-1933. German Roman Catholic political party.
Cerceau, Jacques Androuet du. c1520-85. Optical Views 1551, treatise on architectural perspective.
Cerularius, Michael. c1000-59. Patriarch of Constantinople 1043-58. East-West Schism.
Cezanne, Paul. 1839-1906. French Post-Impressionist painter. Illusion of depth by color. Card Players 1892.
CGT. 1895. Confédération Générale du Travail. Largest French union organization.
Chabrier, Emmanuel. 1841-94. French composer. España 1883.