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Helots. Spartan slave class. Rebelled 464BC.
Helsinki Accords. 1975. Human rights, freedom, co-operation. Reduced East-West tensions.
Helsinki Group. 1976. Soviet dissidents who monitor human rights aspect of Helsinki Accord. Orlov. Shscharansky.
Helvetia. Roman name for Switzerland.
Helvetic Confessions. 1636,62. Swiss Reform church doctrines. 2nd widely adopted.
Helvétius, Claude-Adrien. 1715-71. French Materialist philosopher. All actions based on self-interest. De l’ésprit 1758.
Hemingway, Ernest. 1898-1961. US novelist: Fairwell to Arms 1929. For Whom the Bell Tolls 1940. Old Man and the Sea 1952. Style:“A stream with stones of nouns and a surface of prepositional ripples” -L. Morrow.

Henderson, Arthur. 1863-1935. British organizer of Labour Party.

Hengist and Horsa. 5C. Legendary Jute brothers, founded Kent. Fought Britons.
Hennepin, Louis. 1626-1701. Missionary explorer of Great Lakes. First European to Niagara Falls.
Henrican Articles. 1573. Limited authority of Polish kings.
Henry, Joseph. 1797-1878. US discoverer of electromagnetic induction. Electric motor, 1829.
Henry, O. 1862-1910. US short-story writer. Surprise endings and irony. Gift of the Magi. Porter.
Henry, Patrick. 1736-99. US revolutionary. “Give me liberty or give me death” 1775. Bill of Rights.
Henry I. 1069-1135. King of England 1100-. Regained Normandy for England 1106. Defined yard 1101.
Henry I. c1008-60. French king 1031-.
Henry II. 1133-1189. Plantagenet king of England 1154-. Common Law system. Married Eleanor of Aquitaine. Angevin Empire. Becket. Rosamund.
Henry II. 1519-59. French king 1547-. Repressed Protestants. Captured Calais 1558. Treaties of Chambord, Cateau-Cambrésis.
Henry III. 1202-72. English king, 1216-. Provisions of Oxford 1258. Montfort.
Henry III. 1551-89. French king 1574-. Wars of Religion, Three Henrys. Assassinated.
Henry IV. 1050-1106. Holy Roman Emperor, 1056-. Civil War. Struggles with Gregory VII led to excommunication. Worms Synod. Clement III.
Henry IV. 1366-1413. Rebelled vs Richard II. King of England 1399-. Consolidated government. First Lancaster.
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.
Henry V. 1086-1125. German king 1106-, Holy Roman Emperor 1111-. Imprisoned pope 1111, ending investiture controversy. Concordat of Worms.
Henry V. 1387-1422. King of England 1413-. Claimed France. Victor at Agincourt. Treaty of Troyes.