Charles I. 1600-49. King of Great Britain and Ireland. 1625-. Attempted to rule without Parliament. Defeated in Civil War. Beheaded.

Charles IX. 1550-74. King of France 1560-. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.

Chatterton, Thomas. 1752-70. English poet. Forerunner of Romantics. Suicide.

Chippendale, Thomas. 1718-79. English neoclassical furniture designer. Book of Patterns, 1752.

Cinematography. 1889 Edison kinetoscope. 1895 Lumière Cinematographe. 1906 Color. 1928 Talky. 1929 Technicolor.

Cistercians. 1098-. RC monastic order. Rigorous rule. Trappist vows of silence 1664.

Classical Music. ~1750-1820. Development of sonata, symphony, string quartet. Mozart. Beethoven. Haydn.

Clotho. Youngest Fate. Spinner of thread of life.

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

Commonwealth. Organized community by consent of governed. Hobbes. Locke.

Constant de Rebecque, Benjamin. 1767-1830. Swiss/French author. Adolphe.

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

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

Couthon, Georges. 1755-94. French aide to Robespierre. Guillotined.

Cranmer, Thomas. 1489-1556. First Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury. Executed by Queen Mary.

Crapper, Thomas. 1836-1910. British plumber. Installed Queen Victoria’s toilets. Manufacturer, but not inventor of syphonic flush toilets.

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

Cunaxa, Battle. 401BC. Failed revolt vs Artaxerxes II. Retreat of the Ten Thousand.

Cyril and Methodius, Sts. -c869/885. Apostles of Slavs. Translated liturgy, invented Cyrillic alphabet.

Daily Telegraph Affair. 1908. Unauthorized interview of Kaiser causes protests in Germany.

Daphnis. Greek mythological shepherd, inventor of bucolic poetry.

Darius I. 550-486BC. Persian King 522-. Defeated by the Greeks at Marathon after expanding empire. Great builder and administrator.

David. King of Isreal 1015-c962BC. Killed Goliath, defeated Philistines. Conquered Jerusalem. United Israel. Author of psalms.

De Quincey, Thomas. 1785-1859. English essayist. Confessions of an English Opium Eater 1821.

Dean, James. 1931-55. US film star. Rebel Without a Cause 1955.

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