Corpus Juris Civilis. Developed 529-35. Roman legal code. Influenced European legal systems.

Corregio. 1494-1534. Italian painter. Anticipated Baroque Style. Virgin and St. Francis 1515. Adoration 1530. Leda and Swans 1531.

Corsica. 6C BC Phocaean. Etruscan. 278BC Carthage. 259BC Rome. 5C Vandal. 6C Byzantine. 8C Papacy. 10C Saracen. 1077 Pisa. 1296 Genoa, Aragon dispute. 1569 Genoa. 1768 France. 1794 Britain. 1796 France 1814-15 British occupy. WWII Germans occupy.

Corvée. Statute labour. Abolished 1792 Fr, 1891 Egypt.

Cosmological Argument. God exists as first cause.

Coster, Laurens. 1370-c1440. Dutch inv of moveable type, perhaps before Gutenberg.

Cotton Famine. 1861-5. English depression due to supply cut-off during American Civil War.

Coty, René. 1882-1962. President of France, 1954-59. Algerian Crisis 1958, led to return of deGaulle.

Coubertin, Pierre. 1863-1937. French educator, Olympics organizer.

Coué, Émile. 1857-1926. French Positivist psychotherapist. Autosuggestion. “Every day and in every way I am getting better and better.” 1920.

Coulomb, Charles de. 1736-1806. French naval engineer, defined unit of electricity. Electrical attraction 1785.

Council of Ten. c1310-1797. Powerful Venetian tribunal. Investigated aristocratic plots vs government.

Council of the Republic. 1917. Russian provisional government.

Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion. 1746-. Methodist Calvinistic sect.

Country Party. 1913-. Australian pro-agriculture party. Small but influential in coalition governments.

Coup d’État. Overthrow of existing government by force.

Cour Carrée. Central court of Louvre designed by Percier and Fontaine.

Courbet, Gustave. 1819-77. French Realist painter, socialist activist. Commune. The Artist’s Studio 1855.

Court of Miracles. In Middle Ages in Paris, area where beggars lived at night, shedding their wooden legs, etc.

Couthon, Georges. 1755-94. French aide to Robespierre. Guillotined.

Coverdale, Miles. 1488-1569. English religious reformer, psalm + bible translator.

Coward, Noel. 1899-1973. English playwright. Comedies of manners. Private Lives 1930.

Cowell, Henry. 1887-1965. US avant-garde composer. Tone Clusters.

Cowper, William. 1731-1800. English poet. The Task.

Craig, James. 1871-1940. First Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, 1921-.

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