Corneille, Pierre. 1606-84. French tragic playwright. La Veuve 1634. Nicomède 1636. Le Cid 1637.

Cornish. -1780. Celtic language. Breton.

Cornwallis, Charles. 1738-1805. British General. Ended American Revolution by surrender at Yorktown.

Cornwallis Code. 1793. For civil servants in India. No private trade. No Indians in important posts.

Coronado, Francisco de. 1510-54. Spanish explorer. Grand Canyon, 1540.

Corot, Camille. 1796-1875. French painter, forerunner of Barbizon school of Art. Narni Bridge 1827.

Corporate State. Mussolini economic system. Capitalist elements in state controlled economy.

Corpus Juris Civilis. Developed 529-35. Roman legal code. Influenced European legal systems.

Corregio. 1494-1534. Italian painter. Anticipated Baroque Style. Virgin and St. Francis 1515. Adoration 1530. Leda and Swans 1531.

Corsica. 6C BC Phocaean. Etruscan. 278BC Carthage. 259BC Rome. 5C Vandal. 6C Byzantine. 8C Papacy. 10C Saracen. 1077 Pisa. 1296 Genoa, Aragon dispute. 1569 Genoa. 1768 France. 1794 Britain. 1796 France 1814-15 British occupy. WWII Germans occupy.

Cortes. Spanish National Assembly.

Cortes, Hernan. 1485-1547. Castillian captain, conquered Mexico,1519-21.

Cosmological Argument. God exists as first cause.

Cossacks. Russian peasant soldiers.

Costa Rica. 1502 Columbus discovers. 1564 Spain settles. 1821 Independent. 1822 Mexican Empire. 1823 CAF. 1838 Republic.

Coster, Laurens. 1370-c1440. Dutch inv of moveable type, perhaps before Gutenberg.

Cotte, Robert de. 1656-1735. Architect. Chancel of Notre-Dame, Esplanade, Versailles.

Cotton Famine. 1861-5. English depression due to supply cut-off during American Civil War.

Coty, René. 1882-1962. President of France, 1954-59. Algerian Crisis 1958, led to return of deGaulle.

Coubertin, Pierre. 1863-1937. French educator, Olympics organizer.

Coué, Émile. 1857-1926. French Positivist psychotherapist. Autosuggestion. “Every day and in every way I am getting better and better.” 1920.

Coulomb, Charles de. 1736-1806. French naval engineer, defined unit of electricity. Electrical attraction 1785.

Council of Ten. c1310-1797. Powerful Venetian tribunal. Investigated aristocratic plots vs government.

Council of the Republic. 1917. Russian provisional government.

Count. Continental title, equivalent to Earl.

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