Corinthian. Most recent style of Classical Greek Architecture. Acanthus leaves on column capital.

Corn Laws. 1804-15. British agricultural price support. Repeal, 1846, marks transformation from agricultural to industrial priorities and free trade.

Corneille, Pierre. 1606-84. French tragic playwright. La Veuve 1634. Nicomède 1636. Le Cid 1637.

Coronado, Francisco de. 1510-54. Spanish explorer. Grand Canyon, 1540.

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

Cranach, Lucas. 1472-1553. German painter and engraver. Luther 1533.

Crédit Mobilier of America. 1865-72. Scandal involving illegal profits, graft in Union Pacific Railroad construction.

Cressida. Unfaithful to Troilus, she deserted Troy for the Greeks.

Crete. c6100BC Knossos civilization. 3500BC Minoan. 1100BC Greek 67BC Rome. 826 Saracen. 960 Byzantine. 1205 Venice. 1669 Ottoman. 1912 Greece. 1941-45 Germany occupies.

Cronus. Greek Titan = Saturn. Swallowed own children.

Crystal Palace. 1851. Built for the Great Exhibition, London. First iron-framed. Burned, 1936. Paxton.

Cumae. 750BC-1205. Oldest Greek colony in Italy. Near Naples.

Cybele. Roman Great Mother of gods. = Rhea.

Cyclades. Greek Islands in Delian League.

Cynicism. 4C BC-6C. Greek philosophy. Antisthenes. Diogenes.

Cyprus. Stone, Bronze Age civilizations. 1450BC Egypt. 1200BC Greek. 1000 Phoenicia. 709 Assyria. 569 Egypt. 6C Persia. 333 Macedonia. 294 Egypt. 47BC Rome...330 AD Byzantine. 7C Moslem. 1191 Crusaders. 1489 Venice. 1571 Turk. 1878 British lease...1914 Britain annexes. 1927 Crown Colony. 1960 Republic. 1963-4 Civil War, Greece and Turkey intervene. 1974 Turkey invades, partition.

Cyprus Emergency. 1952-9. Pro-Greece EOKA terrorists vs British.

Cyprus Revolt. 1925-31. For union with Greece.

Cyrano de Bergerac. 1619-65. French large nosed satirical writer. La Mort d’Agrippine 1654.

Cyrenaics. 4C BC. Greek school of philosophy. Pleasure is the highest good. Epicureanism.

Cyril, St. c444. Patriarch of Alexandria. Deported Nestor. Lynched Hypatia. Launched pogroms against Jews. Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon.

Daguerre, Jacques. 1789-1851. French inventor of Daguerrotype photographic process 1837.

Daily Telegraph Affair. 1908. Unauthorized interview of Kaiser causes protests in Germany.

Daladier, Édouard. 1884-1970. French Prime Minister, 1933~40. Munich Agreement.

Dalhousie, First Marquess. 1812-60. British Governor General of India 1847-56. Annexed Punjab, 1849, Rangoon, Burma. Built railway, telegraph. Lapse doctrine caused Indian Mutiny.

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