Cornwallis, Charles. 1738-1805. British General. Ended American Revolution by surrender at Yorktown.

Corregio. 1494-1534. Italian painter. Anticipated Baroque Style. Virgin and St. Francis 1515. Adoration 1530. Leda and Swans 1531.

Cortes. Spanish National Assembly.

Costa Rica. 1502 Columbus discovers. 1564 Spain settles. 1821 Independent. 1822 Mexican Empire. 1823 CAF. 1838 Republic.

Cotton Famine. 1861-5. English depression due to supply cut-off during American Civil War.

Coty, René. 1882-1962. President of France, 1954-59. Algerian Crisis 1958, led to return of deGaulle.

Coué, Émile. 1857-1926. French Positivist psychotherapist. Autosuggestion. “Every day and in every way I am getting better and better.” 1920.

Coulomb, Charles de. 1736-1806. French naval engineer, defined unit of electricity. Electrical attraction 1785.

Council of the Republic. 1917. Russian provisional government.

Counter-Reformation. 1517-1622. Catholic reform that followed the Reformation. Trent.

Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion. 1746-. Methodist Calvinistic sect.

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

Count’s War. 1533-36. Danish war of succession. Confirmed Protestant Reformation and hereditary succession.

Courbet, Gustave. 1819-77. French Realist painter, socialist activist. Commune. The Artist’s Studio 1855.

Courtois, Bernard. 1777-1838. French. Iodine 1811.

Covenant, National. National Covenant.

Coverdale, Miles. 1488-1569. English religious reformer, psalm + bible translator.

Crazy Horse. c1842-1877. Sioux Indian chief vs Custer at Little Bighorn.

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

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

Crete, Battle. 1941. First German airborne invasion.

Cripps Mission. 1942. British attempt to negotiate India’s aid in WWII.

Crispi, Francesco. 1819-1901. Italian Prime Minister 1887~96. Thousand.

Cromwell, Oliver. 1599-1658. Led revolution in England, 1649. Lord Protector of the Realm, 1653-. Commonwealth Head of Government, 1649-. Signed Charles I death warrant.

Crookes, William. 1832-1919. English physicist. Invented Crookes tube. Discovered thallium. Radiometer.

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