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1715 matches to Quiller-Couch (Q)
Coué, Émile. 1857-1926. French Positivist psychotherapist. Autosuggestion. “Every day and in every way I am getting better and better.” 1920.
Count. Continental title, equivalent to Earl.
Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion. 1746-. Methodist Calvinistic sect.
Count’s War. 1533-36. Danish war of succession. Confirmed Protestant Reformation and hereditary succession.
Coup d’État. Overthrow of existing government by force.
Couperin. 17-18C French family of Baroque composers.
Couperin, François. 1668-1733. French Baroque keyboard composer. Concerts Royeaux, Leçons de Ténebres 1714.
Courbet, Gustave. 1819-77. French Realist painter, socialist activist. Commune. The Artist’s Studio 1855.
Cousteau, Jacques. 1910-97. French underwater explorer.
Cranmer, Thomas. 1489-1556. First Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury. Executed by Queen Mary.
Crapper, Thomas. 1836-1910. British plumber. Installed Queen Victoria’s toilets. Manufacturer, but not inventor of syphonic flush toilets.
Crassus, Marcus. c115-53BC. First Roman triumvirate member. Suppressed Spartacus’ slave revolt.
Creon. Oedipus’ uncle. King of Thebes. Killed Antigone.
Crichton, James “The Admirable”. 1560-82. Scottish adventurer/scholar.
Cripps Mission. 1942. British attempt to negotiate India’s aid in WWII.
Croker, JW. 1833. Coined ’Conservative’ for Tory.
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.
Cubism. 1907. Braque and Picasso reduce painting to minimum geometric forms. Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907. Term coined by Braque 1909.
Cubism, Synthetic. 1913. Braque and Picasso create a collage form of painting.
Culpeper’s Rebellion. 1677-79. Carolina colonists vs England. Establish their own government.
Cultural Revolution. 1966-9. Mao’s Red Guards purge China of bourgeois, capitalist elements.
Cumberland, Richard. 1631-1718. Philosopher, “father” of English Utilitarianism.
Cyrano de Bergerac. 1619-65. French large nosed satirical writer. La Mort d’Agrippine 1654.
Czechoslovakia. 1918 Formed in breakup of Austro-Hungarian Empire. 1920 Little Entente. 1938 -Sudetenland. 1939-45 German occupation. 1949 People’s Democratic Republic. 1968 Prague Spring. 1991 Republic. 1993 Split into Czech Republic and Slovakia.