Classicism. Art and architecture in imitation of Greek and Roman styles. Neoclassical.

Clear Grits Movement. 1848-51. Canadian political movement for representation by population.

Clearance of Scottish Highlands. 1790-1850. Increased sheep farming displaces tenant crofters.

Cleisthenes. Athenian. First democratic constitution 509BC. Introduced ostracism.

Clemenceau, Georges. 1841-1929. French Radical Prime Minister 1917-20. Dreyfus defender. War leader.

Clemens, Samuel. = Mark Twain.

Clément, Jacques. 1567-89. Assassinated Henry III of France.

Clement III. Antipope 1080-1100 appointed by Henry IV. Defeated Rome 1084.

Clement V. Pope 1305-14. Moved papacy to Avignon. Dissolved Knights Templar 1312. Prohibited usury.

Clement VII. Antipope 1378-94. Avignon. Election caused Great Schism.

Clement VII. Pope 1523-34. Refused Henry VIII divorce.

Clement VIII. Antipope 1423-29. Ended Great Schism.

Cleomenes I. Spartan King. c521-491BC. Maintained Spartan dominance.

Cleomenes III. -c219BC. Spartan King 235-222. Defeated Achaean League. Lost to Macedonia.

Cleon. -422BC. Athenian leader; advocated Pelop. War.

Cleopatra VII. 69-30BC. Queen of Egypt, lover of Caesar and Antony. Suicide.

Cleopatra’s Needles. c1500BC Thutmose III. Gift of Egypt to Britain, US. Erected London 1878, NY 1881.

Clermont Council. 1095. Proposed first Crusade.

Clinton, William J. 1946- US president 1993-2001. Impeached, acquitted over Lewinsky affair. Signed NAFTA. Raised taxes.

Clotaire II. 584-629. Merovingian king of Neustria. Reunited Frankish Empire 613, but ceded power to nobles.

Clytemnestra. Wife and murderess of Agamemnon. Killed by her children, Orestes and Electra.

CND. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Coalition, Wars of. 1792-1815. European powers oppose France’s revolutionary ideas and expansion. French Revolutionary Wars. Napoleonic Wars. Third Coalition War.

Cobbett, William. 1763-1835. English working class pamphleteer.

Cobden, Richard. 1804-65. British Radical MP. Anti-Corn Law League.

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