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Shimonoseki Treaty. 1895. Ended first Sino-Japanese War. Japan gained Taiwan, Port Arthur. Korea independent.
Shinto. Japanese state religion 1769-. All things are holy. Ancestor worship.
Shipton, Mother. 1488-1561. Predicted 1666 Great Fire of London.
Shockley, William. 1910-89. US. Transistor 1948.
Shogun. Japanese military leaders. 794 Otomaro. 1192-1867 Ruled Japan.
Sholokhov, Mikhail. 1905-84. Russian writer. Don series.
Short Parliament. 1640. England. Refused king taxes because of grievances.
Shot Heard Around the World. 1775. Battle of Lexington and Concord beginning American Revolution.
Shou Hsing. Chinese god of longevity.
Shrewsbury, Duke of. 1660-1718. English. Influenced Glorious Revolution, Hanoverian succession.
Sibelius, Jan. 1865-1957. Finnish composer. Finlandia. Symphonies and tone poems evoke feeling of North. Kulervo Symphony 1892.
Siberia. 13C Mongol(S)...Golden Horde(W)/ Yüan(E). 1483 Russia explores. 1581 Khanate overthrown. 1689 Russo-Chinese border settled. 1891-1905 Trans-Siberian Railway.
Sibyl. Mythical Greek prophetess. Interceded with gods for humans.
Sicilian Vespers. 1282. Aragon-inspired massacre of French in Sicily. Aragon takes control.
Sicily. c1100BC Sicans. Sicels. Mycenaean. 7C BC Phoenicia(W)/ Gr(E). 241BC Rome. 5C Ostrogoth. 6C Byzantine. 827 Saracen. 1072 Norman. 1130 +Naples. 1197 Hohenstaufen. 1266-82 France. 1302 Aragon. 1443 +Naples=Two Sicilies. 1860 Italy.
Sickert, Walter. 1860-1942. German/English Impressionist painter.
Sicyon. 4C BC Ancient Greek city known for artists.
Sidney, Philip. 1554-86. English poet. Arcadia 1580. Defence of Poesie 1585.
Siegfried. Dragon slayer of German legend.
Siegfried Line. 1937-40 German fortifications on western frontier = West Wall. Also, part of Hindenburg Line.
Siemens, Werner von. 1816-92. German engineer. Dynamo 1867. Electric Locomotive 1879.
Sienkiewicz, Henryk. 1846-1916. Polish novelist: Slowo Trilogy 1883-88. Quo Vadis 1896.
Sierra Leone. 1462 Portugal discovers. 16C Slave source. 1786 British freed slave colony. 1788 British Crown Colony. 1961 Independent.
Sieyès, Joseph. 1748-1836. French abbé. What is the Third Estate? called for democracy 1789. Drafted Declaration of the Rights of Man. Helped organize Napoleon’s coup.