Harald I. c850-933. First Norwegian king 860-930. Colonized Iceland c874.

Harald III. Norwegian king 1047-66. Killed invading England.

Harald Blue Tooth. c910-985. First Christian Danish king c940-. Unified Denmark, conquered Norway.

Hardecanute. c1019-42. King of English 1014-, Denmark 1028-.

Hardenberg, Karl von. 1750-1822. Prussian chancellor 1810- during Napoleonic Wars. Citizenship to Jews.

Harding, Warren. 1865-1923. US Pres 1921-. Teapot Dome. Washington Conference.

Hardy, Thomas. 1840-1928. English novelist: Far from the Madding Crowd 1874; Mayor of Casterbridge 1886; Jude the Obscure 1896. Man as victim of fate. -“the worth encompassed by the inevitable”.

Hargreaves, James. -1778. English. Invented spinning jenny 1764.

Harmsworth, Harold. 1868-1940. English newspaper publisher. Daily Mail.

Harnack, Adolf von. 1851-1930. German theological historian. History of Dogma 1886-9.

Harold II. Last Saxon king of England, 1066. Killed at Hastings.

Harper’s Ferry. 1859. John Brown raids arsenal to start slave uprising.

Harriman, W. Averell. 1891-1986. US negotiator of Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963.

Harrington, James. 1611-77. English idealist utopian writer. Oceana 1656.

Harris, Arthur. 1892-1984. WWII air marshal. Saturation bombing.

Harris, Lawren. 1885-1970. Canadian landscape, abstract painter. Group of Seven. Lake and Mountains 1928.

Harrison, Frederic. 1831-1923. English Positivist: Philosophy of Common Sense 1907.

Harrison, William. 1773-1841. US Pres 1841. Elected on slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler too”. Died of pneumonia caught at inauguration.

Hart, Lorenz. 1895-1943. US lyricist. Rogers. Pal Joey 1940.

Hart, Moss. 1904-61. US playwright. You Can’t Take It with You 1936.

Harun-ar-Rashid. c764-809. Abbasid Caliph, 786-. Subject of One Thousand and One Nights.

Harvey, William. 1578-1657. English doctor, discovered circulation of blood 1616-28. On Reproduction 1651.

Hasdrubal. -207BC. Hannibal’s brother. Carthaginian commander.

Hasidism. 18C-. Jewish sect founded by Eliezer, called Ba’al Shem-Tov. Stresses good-heartedness over scholarship, mystical approach to God.

Haskala. 18-19C Cultural movement to move European Jews from ghettos into mainstream.

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