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Reuchlin, Johannes. 1455-1522. German. Christian. Created Hebrew grammar.
Reuter, Paul. 1816-99. German telegraphic press pioneer, 1851. Pigeon post 1850.
Revere, Paul. 1735-1818. Silversmith. American Revolution hero. 1775 Midnight ride warned militia of British troops marching on Concord.
Revisionism. Criticism of tenets of Marxism by Bernstein, Tito.
Revolutions of 1848. Vienna, Prague, Venice. Romanticism, economic problems, bad harvest, unrest within Austrian Empire led to concessions, abdication of Emperor Ferdinand I.
Rhaetia. Roman alpine province conquered 15BC.
Rhee, Syngman. 1875-1965. First South Korean president 1948-60. Campaigned for Independence from Japan.
Rhine, Confederation of. 1806-13. Bavaria and German states with constitution in French model.
Rhineland. German Rhine bank. Hitler defied Treaty of Versailles by militarizing area 1936.
Rhodes. <1000BC Minoan. Dorian. 5C BC Delian League. 43BC Rome alliance. 653 Saracen. 1309 Knights of St John. 1522 Turks. 1912 Italy. 1947 Greece. c1C BC School of rhetoric.
Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Federation. 1953-63. Opposed by Malawi, Zambia regions. Dissolved.
Rhys, Ernest. 1859-1946. Welsh writer. Edited 983-volume Everyman’s Library series 1906-.
Ribbentrop, Joachim von. 1893-1946. German Nazi foreign minister 1933-45. Hanged at Nuremberg.
Ricci, Matteo. 1552-1610. Italian Jesuit missionary to China.
Richard. 1209-72. English. King of the Romans 1256-71.
Richardson, Dorothy. 1873-1957. English stream of consciousness novelist. Pilgrimage 1915-38.
Richler, Mordecai. 1931-2001. Canadian novelist of human dilemmas. Duddy Kravitz 1959.
Richthofen, Manfred von. 1892-1918. WWI German air ace. Downed 80 Allied planes.
Ricimer. -472. Roman general. Defeated Vandals, deposed Emperor.
Rickover, Hyman. 1900-86. US Admiral. “Father of nuclear submarine”.
Riehl, Wilhelm. 1823-97. German writer/historian.
Riemann, Bernhard. 1826-66. German mathematician: non-Euclidean geometry.
Rights, Bill of. 1689. Established power of British Parliament over taxes, laws, army. Protestant Succession. William and Mary.
Rights of Man, Declaration. 1789. Preamble to 1791 French constitution. Guaranteed representation, equality before law, property, freedom of religion, press, speech.