Glorious Revolution. 1688. British Protestant William and Mary depose James II. Declaration of Rights, Bill of Rights 1689.

Greenland. 986-1482 Scandinavian. colony. 1721 Denmark. 1979 Home rule.

Grenada. 1498 Columbus discovers. 1651 French colony. 1763 English. 1876 Crown Colony. 1958 Fed of West Indies. 1967 Self-government. 1983 US invades to prevent Marxist insurrection.

Gretna Green. 1754-1940. Scottish border village popular for runaway marriages.

Guimard, Hector. 1867-1942. French Art Nouveau architect, decorator. Paris Métro entrances.

Gustav I. Vasa. 1496-1560. Elected Swedish king 1523-. Defeated Danes, dissolved Kalmar Union.

Halles Market. 1110. Paris site of pillory. Covered 1854-6. Moved 1969.

Hallmark. 1300. First required in Britain.

Hammarskjold, Dag. 1905-61. Swedish UN Secretary General 1953-.

Handfasting. 1 yr trial marriage, Scotland.

Harald Blue Tooth. c910-985. First Christian Danish king c940-. Unified Denmark, conquered Norway.

Hardecanute. c1019-42. King of English 1014-, Denmark 1028-.

Harris, Arthur. 1892-1984. WWII air marshal. Saturation bombing.

Haymarket Riot. 1886. Anarchist bomb kills 7 police at Chicago labour demonstration.

Heath, Edward. 1916-. British Conservative Prime Minister 1970-4. Common Market.

Heidegger, Martin. 1889-1976. German Existentialist philosopher. Being and Time 1927.

Henry II. 1133-1189. Plantagenet king of England 1154-. Common Law system. Married Eleanor of Aquitaine. Angevin Empire. Becket. Rosamund.

Henry IV. of Navarre. 1553-1610. King of France 1589-. Converted to Catholicism. Edict of Nantes protected Protestant rights. ’Reign of Rebuilding’. Assassinated by Ravaillac. Margaret of France.

Herodotus. c484-420BC. Greek historian and explorer. “Father of History”-Cicero.

Hindenburg, Paul von. 1847-1934. Commander in Chief of the German armies 1916-18. President of Weimar Republic 1925-. Appointed Hitler chancellor 1933.

Hippolytus, St. c170-235. Italian martyr. First Antipope, 217-.

Hogarth, William. 1697-1764. English satirical mural painter. Founded Royal Academy 1739. Rake’s Progress 1732. Marriage à la Mode 1744. Pantheon 1764.

Holbein, Hans, the Younger. 1497-1543. German/English Realist portrait painter. St. Mary 1525. Danse Macabre 1526. Henry VIII 1540.

Hopper, Grace. 1906-92. US Admiral. Pioneer computer programmer 1944. “Debugged” Mark I by removing moth.

Hoxha, Enver. 1908-85. Albanian Marxist-Leninist dicatator 1944-.

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