Basil I. 813-886. Byzantine Emperor, 867-. Defeated Arabs. New Golden Age. Founded Macedonian dynasty.

Basil II. 958-1025. Byzantine Emperor 960-. Slayer of Bulgars.

Basque. Europe’s oldest racial group. NW Spain, SW France. Euzkadi. ETA.

Bassein, Treaty. 1802. Indian alliance with British East India Company leads to second Maratha War.

Bassi, Agostino. 1773-1856. Italian microscopist: contagion by microbes.

Bateau-Lavoir. 1900. Paris birthplace of cubism (Picasso, Braque) and modern poetry (Jacob, Apollinaire, Orlan). Desmoiselles d’Avignon.

Bates, Katherine.1859-1929. US poet. America the Beautiful 1893.

Bates, W. 1825-92. English naturalist. Supported Darwin with mimicry evidence.

Bathory, Elizabeth. -1614. Hungarian Countess. Bathed in blood of 600 young girls to rejuvenate.

Batista, Fulgencio. 1901-73. Authoritarian Cuban right-wing dictator 1933-4, 52-8. Toppled by Castro.

Baudelaire, Charles. 1821-67. French modernist poet: Fleurs du Mal 1857. Influenced Symbolists.

Baudin, Alphonse. 1811-51. French deputy, killed on the Barricades. Republican martyr.

Baudouin I. 1930-93. King of Belgium 1951-. Independent Congo.

Bauer, Sebastian. 1822-75. Invented submarine, 1850. First underwater photography.

Bauhaus. 1919-33. German art institute. ’Arts and sciences should cooperate in architecture’ -Gropius.

Baumé, Antoine. 1728-1804. French chemist: aromatics discoverer.

Bavaria. Celts. 15BC Rome. 488 Germanic tribes. 555 Franks. 788 Charlemagne...817 E Franks. 10C Duchy in HRE. 1180 Wittelsbach. 1805 Kingdom. 1871 German Empire. 1918 Republic. 1919 Weimar Republic. 1933 Germany. 1949 W Germany.

Bavarian Succession, War. (Potato War). 1778-9. Prussia stops Austria from taking over Bavarian land ceded to it.

Bay of Pigs. 1961. CIA-financed Cuban invasion by exiles fails. Cuban Missile Crisis.

Bayard, Pierre. 1476-1524. French knight in Italian wars. “The fearless and blameless knight.”

Bayer, Johann. 1572-1625. German astronomer. Star charts, 1603, include magnitude Greek symbols.

Baylen, Battle. 1808. Spanish mob defeats French army, humiliating Napoleon.

Bazaine, Achille. 1811-88. French marshal, surrendered Metz, 1870. Condemned as traitor. Escaped 1874.

Bazille, Jean-Frédéric. 1841-70. Early French Impressionist painter.

Beach, Alfred. 1826-96. US inventor. Published Scientific American 1848-.

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