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230 matches to May Fourth Movement
Tamayo, Rufino. 1899-91. Mexican artist.
Umayyad. 661-750. Sunni Moslem dynasty of Caliphate Empire. Defeated by Abbasid revolt. Abd ar-Rahman escaped to establish dynasty in Spain 756-1031.
Uxmal. c600. Mayan city. Abandoned 1450. Mayapan.
VE Day. May 7, 1945. Folowed German surrender signed May 7 in Reims.
Whittington, Richard. 1358-1423. London Lord Mayor. Legend of merchant selling his cat for fortune to rat- plagued Moroccan ruler, he marries merchant’s daughter, becomes Lord Mayor.
Anne of Cleves. 1515-57. Fourth wife of Henry VIII. Divorced.
Crusades. 1095-1272. European Christian wars to regain Holy Land after Seljuk Turks take Jerusalem in 1072. Literature and the arts benefitted from Eastern cultural infusion. Peasants 1096. Annihilated. First. 1096-99. Genoa financed Godfrey of Bouillon to recapture Jerusalem. Only successful crusade. Second. 1147-49. Louis VII and Conrad III pillage Byzantium. Third. 1189-92. Richard I and Philip II Truce with Saladin allows access to Jerusalem. Fourth. 1202-4. French and Flemish nobles conquer, sack Constantinople, form Latin Empire. Childrens. 1212. Stephen of Cloyes led 30,000 unarmed French youths. Nicholas of Cologne led 20,000 German. All died or enslaved. Fifth. 1218-21. John of Brienne in Egypt. Sixth. 1228-29. Frederick II crowned king of Jerusalem. Seventh. 1248-54. St Louis of France captured by Egypt and ransomed. Eighth. 1270. St Louis dies of plague. Ninth. 1271-2. Prince Edward of England.
Innocent III. c1160-1216. Pope 1198-. Peak power of papacy. Fourth Crusade. Authorized incorporation of University of Paris 1215. Placed Inquisition under Franciscans and Dominicans. Crowned Frederick II.
International. Socialist revolutionary workers movements. First. 1864-76. Founded by Marx in London. Second. 1889-1914. Paris. IFTU. Revived in 1920s. Third. 1919-43. =COMINTERN. Stalin’s Vehicle for world-wide Communist Revolution. Fourth. 1938-53. Trotsky’s Transitional Program for reform.
Republic French. 1792-1804 First. 1848-52 Second. Napoleon III. 1870-1940 Third. 1946-58. Fourth. 23 governments in 12 years. 1958-. Fifth. DeGaulle.
Zara, Siege. 1202. Fourth Crusaders aid Venice attack rebelling Zadar.
Action Française. 1898-1945. French right wing political movement and newspaper.
Anglo-Catholicism. High Church movement in Church of England. Stresses link with Roman Catholic church. Oxford Movement.
Anti-Corn Law League. 1839-46. Cobden and Bright’s pacifist movement for Free Trade, public education, against social reform and Chartists. Corn Laws.
Anti-Saloon League. 1893 US Temperance organization. Prohibition.
Aragon, Louis. 1897-1982. French Romantic poet + Communist.
Arminianism. 17C-. Christian movement. Free-will is compatible with God’s sovereignty.
Bakunin, Mikhail. 1814-76. Russian anarchist revolutionary. International movement. Advocated assassination. Dieu et l’état 1871.
Black Hundreds. 1905-9. Russian movement. Opposed revolution. Persecuted Jews-50,000 dead.
Black Muslims. 20C US movement to apply Islam to Black life. Malcolm X.
Black Nationalism. 1960-73. US political movement for economic power.
Bright, John. 1811-89. English Quaker MP: Free Trade Movement. Cobden. Anti-Corn Law.
Brown, Robert. 1773-1858. Scottish botanist: Brownian movement. Plant cell nucleus.
Buchmanism. 1922-65. Christian revivalist movement stressing honesty, purity, love, unselfishness. =Moral Rearmament 1938. Oxford Group.
Cage, John. 1912-92. Father of US avant-garde musical movement. Experiments with randomness and new sounds.