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Sebastapol, Siege. 1854. 11 mos. Allied Crimean War victory. First trench warfare. Florence Nightingale.
Sebek. Egyptian crocodile god, patron of kings.
SEC. Securities and Exchange Commission. 1934. Founded under New Deal.
Secret Speech. 1956. Khrushchev call for destalinization in USSR leads to Hungarian, Polish uprisings.
Sedan, Battle. 1870. Napoleon III surrenders to Germans. Ends second French Empire.
Sedgemoore, Battle. 1685. James II defeats Monmouth. Monmouth executed.
Seeckt, Hans von. 1866-1936. German general. Secretly rebuilt army after WWI.
Segovia, Andrés. 1894-1987. Spanish classical guitarist.
Segregation. Separation of the races to maintain the advantages of one.
Seguin, Marc. 1786-1875. French inventor of the suspension bridge.
Ségurane, Catherine. Saved Nice by frightening away invading Turks, 1543.
Sejm. 1467-. Polish legislative assembly.
Sekhmet. Egyptian war goddess with lion’s head.
Seleucids. 312-64BC. Hellenistic kingdom founded by Alexander’s general, Seleucus. Syria, Persia, Mesopotamia.
Selim I. 1470-1520. Ottoman sultan 1512-. Conquered Egypt, Syria, part of Persia.
Semiramis. Assyrian queen, goddess. Founded Babylon.
Semmelweis, Ignaz. 1818-65. Hungarian/Austrian. Puerperal fever 1861.
Sempach Battle. 1386. Swiss confederates defeat Austrian Duke Leopold, ensuring independence.
Senate. 509BC. Roman governing body. 401BC Plebians admitted. 44BC lost most power to Caesar.
Senefelder, Alois. 1772-1834. Bavarian lithography inventor 1796.
Senegal. Wolof, Fulani, Serer, Tukulor. 1406 Bettencourt explored. 15C Portugal. 1626 French settle. 1895 French colony. 1959 +Sudanese Republic=Mali Federation. 1960 -Mali=Independent republic.
Senghor, Leopold. 1906-2001. Poet, First president of Senegal 1960-80.
Sennacherib. -681BC. Assyrian king. Besieged Jerusalem 701. Destroyed Babylon 689. Rebuilt Nineveh.
Separatists. 16-17C. Factions who left Church of England. Brownists, Pilgrims, Quakers.
Septuagint. 3-2C BC. Oldest Greek translation of Old Testament.