Goujon, Jean. 1510-68. French sculptor. Fontaine des Innocents 1548/9.

Gounod, Charles. 1818-93. French composer: Faust 1859.

Government of India Act. 1858. India Act.

Gower, John. -1408. English poet. Confessio Amantis 1393. Vox Clamantis 1384.

Gowon, Yakubu. 1934-. Ruled Nigeria 1966-75. Defeated Biafra. Reunited country.

Goya, Francisco. 1746-1828. Spanish painter and engraver of macabre. Horrors of War 1811.

GPU. 1922-23. Russian Secret Police. OGPU.

Gracchus, Tiberius. c163-133BC. Roman tribune 133, reformer. Killed in riot. Scipio.

Graces. Three beautiful attendants of Aphrodite. Aglaia, brightness. Euphrosyne, joy. Thalia, bloom.

Gräfe, Albrecht. 1828-70. German ophthalmologist. Glaucoma, 1857. Cataract treatment, 1867.

Graham, Billy. 1918-. US evangelist.

Gramme, Zénobe. 1826-1901. Belgian inventor of the dynamo 1869.

Gran Colombia. 1819-30. Bolivar’s independent republic of former Spanish colonies. Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador. New Granada.

Granada. 745-1492 Moors. Last Moslem kingdom in Spain. Alhambra.

Granadine Confederation. 1858-63. = Colombia.

Granados, Enrique. 1867-1916. Spanish Nationalist composer. 7 Operas. Set of Tonadillas. Dances. Goyescas 1911-13.

Grand Alliance, War of. 1689-97. Spain, Sweden, England, Holy Roman Empire, Netherlands vs French expansionism. Negotiated Peace. King William’s War. Namur. Augsburg League.

Grand Army of the Republic. 1866-1956. Political organization of American Civil War veterans.

Grand Canal. 4C BC-1400. China. World’s longest, 1,000 miles.

Grand Palais. Built for 1900 World Exhibition in Paris.

Grand Remonstrance. 1641. Grievances presented to Charles I by Long Parliament.

Grande Armée. 1805-12. Napoleon’s 1,000,000 man army; combined smaller armies for central control.

Grande Gallery of Louvre. Longest gallery in the world, 300m.

Grandee. 13C-. Highest rank of Spanish nobility.

Grandfather Clause. -1915. S US states limited vote to those enfranchised by 1866/7.

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