Cockayne, Land of. Legendary medieval land of gluttony and idleness.

Cockcroft, John. 1897-1967. English physicist. Split nucleus.

Cocteau, Jean. 1889-1963. Montparnasse poet. Provençale figurative painter. Filmmaker.

Cod War. 1972-6. Britain upset at Iceland’s unilateral expansion of fishing limits to 50 miles.

Code Napoleon. 1804. Napoleonic Code.

Code of Hammurabi. 18C BC. Written legal code.

Codrus. 11C BC/Legendary last king of Athens.

Coke, Edward. 1552-1634. English jurist. Defended Common Law. Prosecuted Raleigh.

Colchester. Pre-Roman Belgic capital. First Roman settlement in Britain.

Coldstream Guards. 1650. Marched to London to restore Charles II.

Cole, George. 1889-1959. English economist/journalist: The Intelligent Man’s Guide Through World Chaos.

Coleridge, Samuel. 1772-1834. English Romantic poet: Ancient Mariner 1798, Kubla Khan.

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel. 1875-1912. English composer: Hiawatha Trilogy 1898-1900.

Colet, John. 1467-1519. English theologian. Founded St. Paul’s School, 1509.

Colette, Sidonie. 1873-1954. French descriptive novelist. Claudine Stories 1900-03. Chéri 1920. Gigi 1944.

Coligny, Gaspard de. 1519-72. Huguenot leader 1562-. Influence on king caused Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.

Collins, Michael. 1890-1922. Led Easter Rebellion. First Prime Minister of Irish Free State 1922. Assassinated by extremists.

Colombia. 1502. Columbus discovers. 1538 Spain 1819 Gran Colombia. 1830 Colombia. 1946-64 La Violencia.

Columbia. US 1981. First reusable spacecraft.

Combination Acts. 1799, 1800. Britain outlaws trade unions. Repealed 1824.

Comic Opera. 18C revolt vs serious opera. Light style, familiar scenes. Italy: opera buffa; Fr: opéra comique; Eng: ballad opera; Ger: singspiel. Orig as intermezzo for opera.

Committee of Public Safety. 1793-5. Ruled France. Robespierre’s reign of Terror.

Commonwealth. 1649-60. Government of England after Charles I executed. Cromwell.

Commune, Paris. 1871. Revolutionary government formed when Thiers abandoned Paris to Prussians. Crushed 2 months later by McMahon. 20,000 killed.

Communism. Collective ownership of property and industry. Wealth shared according to need. Eventually, “dictatorship of proletariat”.

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