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Man, Isle of. 5C Celtic. 9C Norse. 800 Tynwald. 1266 Scotland...England. 1828 Crown possession.
Mandate, League of Nations. Territory controlled by outside power. E.g. ex-German colonies, non-Turkish ex-Ottoman lands. 1946- UN Trusteeship.
Manorial System. (Seignorial). 11-15C. Lord grants peasant rights to till land for fixed payment.
Maori. Polynesian people of New Zealand. Migrated before 800 AD (1150 by their legend).
Margaret. Maid of Norway. 1283-90. Queen of Scotland 1286-. Betrothed to son of Edward I. Death led to England claiming Scotland, Civil War 1290-1314. Robert the Bruce.
Marvell, Andrew. 1621-78. English satirical poet. To His Coy Mistress. Poems on Affairs of State 1689.
Mary I. Bloody Mary. 1516-58. Tudor queen of England 1553-. Married Philip II of Spain. Reinstated Roman Catholicism 1555. Persecuted Protestants. Lost Calais.
Mary II. 1662-94. Queen of England with William III, 1689-. Expelled her father, James II.
Mary of Burgundy. 1457-82. Duchess. Marriage to Maximilian I gave Netherlands to Hapsburgs.
Mazepa, Ivan. 1644-1709. Cossack. Fought for Ukraine independence from Poland.
McCrae, John. 1872-1918. Canadian physician/poet. In Flanders Fields.
McNaughton, Andrew. 1887-1966. Canadian WWII commander in England. Invented direction finder.
Mercia. 7C-877. Anglo-Saxon kingdom in central England. Conquered by Danes, Wessex.
Merritt, William. 1793-1862. Upper Canada trade promoter. Welland Canal 1824-9.
Metaphysical Painting. 1911-20. Bizarre surreal imagery in stark landscape. De Chirico.
Methuen Treaty. 1703-1836. Reduced duty on port wine to England, textiles to Portugal. Hindered Portuguese industrial development.
Milan, Decree. 1807. Napoleon Continental System edict.
Minos. Legendary King of Crete. Kept Minotaur, controlled Aegean islands.
Mir. 17C-1906. Russian system of communal landholding and taxation. Serfdom abolished 1861.
Molly Maguires. 1835-55 Irish anti-landlord society. 1862-77 Irish terrorists in PA coal mining area.
Montrose Campaign. 1644-5. Scotland defeats England in Civil War.
Mortmain. Land ownership by a corporation unable to die or provide services.
Mugwumps. 1884. US Republican reform faction. In England, politically neutral voters.
Munich Agreement. 1938. Recognition of Italian and German conquests by Chamberlain and Daladier. Dismembered Czechoslovakia. Appeasement Policy. Sudetenland.