Gray, Thomas. 1716-71. English poet. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 1751.

Great Awakening. 1720-60. US religious revival.

Great Britain. 1707 Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales. United Kingdom. Act of Union.

Great Fear. 1789. Peasants refuse to pay taxes, prepare for aristocrats’ attack in rural France.

Great Intercourse. 1495. Henry VIII, Philip of Burgundy trade treaty.

Great Leap Forward. 1958-61. Failed Chinese program for increased output by communes.

Great Schism. 1054. East-West Schism. 1378-1417. Period of rival Popes in Rome, Avignon, following Avignon Papacy.

Great Train Robbery. 1963. £2.5M stolen.

Great Wall of China. Parts 4C BC. Joined 214-204BC.

Greco, El. 1541-1614. Greek/Spanish painter. Elongated figures. Assumption 1577. Crucifixion. Toledo c1608.

Greco-Turkish War. 1897. Greece fails to annex Crete. 1920-22. Greece loses Thrace. Exchange of minorities.

Greece. c3000BC Minoan(Crete). c1500BC Achaean. 11C Aeolian, Ionian. c1100 Dorian. 683 Athens monarchy. 404 Sparta. 371 Thebes. 338 Macedonia...Alexander. 197BC Rome...Byzantine. 1453 AD Ottoman. 1829 Independent kingdom. 1912 +Crete. 1924 Republic. 1935 Constitutional Monarchy. 1973 Republic. 1981 EEC. 1994 EU.

Greek Civil War. 1944-9. Communist insurrection defeated with British/US help.

Greek Fire. 648. Byzantine secret weapon. Flammable substance that ignited on contact with water invented by Callinicus of Heliopolis.

Greek Independence, War. 1821-29. Greek rebels, plus England, France, Russia defeat Turkey and Egypt. London Treaty. Otto I. Constantinople Treaty, 1832....End of Holy Alliance.

Greek Liberation, War. = Greek Independence, War.

Greek Project. 1782. Abandoned plan of Catherine the Great to conquer Ottoman Empire.

Green Mountain Boys. 1770. Ethan Allen’s Vermont militia in American Revolution.

Green Revolution. 20C. Increased food production in developing countries based on new plant breeds. Borlaug.

Greene, Graham. 1904-91. English cinematic thriller writer: Man Within 1929. Power and the Glory 1940. Third Man 1949. Quiet American 1955.

Greenland. 986-1482 Scandinavian. colony. 1721 Denmark. 1979 Home rule.

Greer, Germaine. 1939-. Australian feminist writer. Female Eunuch 1970.

Gregory I, St. Benedictine Pope 590-604. Developed Plainsong, Gregorian chant. Sent Augustine to Canterbury.

Gregory VII (Hildebrand), St. 1020-85. Pope 1073-. Condemned lay investiture 1075. Henry IV appoints Anti-Pope Clement III, attacked Rome, 1081-3.

Gregory IX. -1241. Pope 1227-. Organized Inquisition 1231.

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