Dahomey. 1610 Kingdom. Flourished 18-19C. Benin.

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

Daimler, Gottlieb. 1834-1900. German. Gasoline engine, 1885. Automobile, 1886. Benz. Maybach.

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

Dalai Lama. 14C- Leader of Tibetan Buddhists. Ruled Tibet until 1959 exile to India. Lamaism. Yellow Hats. Tenzin Gyatso.

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.

Dali, Salvador. 1904-89. Spanish Surrealist painter of nightmare visions. Persistence of Memory. Crucifixion.

Dalton, John. 1766-1844. English scientist. Law of Partial Pressures. Color blindness 1793.

Damascus. c2500BC. World’s oldest continuously inhabited city. Syria.

Damocles. 4C BC. Dionysius suspended a sword by a single hair over his head at a banquet.

Damon and Pythias. Syracuse true friends. Damon pledged his life for Pythias’, awaiting execution.

Danaïdes. 50 daughters of Danaus. 49 condemed to fill sieves for murdering their husbands. Hypermestra.

Dandolo, Enrico. c1108-1205. Blind Venice Doge. Captured Constantinople 1204.

Danelaw. 878-955. NE England under Viking occupation and the laws in effect.

Daniel. 7C BC. Hebrew prophet. Interpreted dreams.

Danilo I-II. 1677-1835, 1826-60. Montenegrin Prince-Bishops.

Dante Alighieri. 1265-1321. Italian moralist poet. First vernacular. Banquet 1306. Divine Comedy 1321, printed 1472.

Danton, Georges. 1759-94. French Cordelier, Jacobin. Girondin leader 1792-3. Defeated foreign interveners. Executed by Robespierre.

Daphnis. Greek mythological shepherd, inventor of bucolic poetry.

Darby, Abraham. 1678-1717. Iron coking process, 1709.

Dardanus. Greek ancestor of Trojan kings.

Dario, Ruben. 1867-1916. Published Azul 1888, starting Modernismo movement.

Darius I. 550-486BC. Persian King 522-. Defeated by the Greeks at Marathon after expanding empire. Great builder and administrator.

Darius II. Persian King, 423-404BC. Allied with Sparta vs Athens. Lost Egypt.

Darius III. Last Persian King, 335-330BC. Beaten by Alexander the Great.

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