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Coptics. Monophysite Christian church in Egypt. 451 Schism from Rome.
Cordeliers. 1790-4. French moderate revolutionaries. Met at convent. Petitioned vs king. Most executed. Marat.
Corelli, Arcangelo. 1653-1713. Italian violinist and composer. Early developer of concerto 1712.
Corinth. 1350BC “Founded by Sisyphus”. 243BC Achaean League. 146 Rome destroys, rebuilds 46BC. Byzantine. 1458 Ottoman. 1687 Venice. 1715 Ottoman 1822 Greece.
Corinthian. Most recent style of Classical Greek Architecture. Acanthus leaves on column capital.
Corn Laws. 1804-15. British agricultural price support. Repeal, 1846, marks transformation from agricultural to industrial priorities and free trade.
Cornwallis Code. 1793. For civil servants in India. No private trade. No Indians in important posts.
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.
Cortes, Hernan. 1485-1547. Castillian captain, conquered Mexico,1519-21.
Corvée. Statute labour. Abolished 1792 Fr, 1891 Egypt.
Cosmological Argument. God exists as first cause.
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.
Coué, Émile. 1857-1926. French Positivist psychotherapist. Autosuggestion. “Every day and in every way I am getting better and better.” 1920.
Council of Ten. c1310-1797. Powerful Venetian tribunal. Investigated aristocratic plots vs government.
Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion. 1746-. Methodist Calvinistic sect.
Country Party. 1913-. Australian pro-agriculture party. Small but influential in coalition governments.
Count’s War. 1533-36. Danish war of succession. Confirmed Protestant Reformation and hereditary succession.
Coup d’État. Overthrow of existing government by force.
Courbet, Gustave. 1819-77. French Realist painter, socialist activist. Commune. The Artist’s Studio 1855.
Cousteau, Jacques. 1910-97. French underwater explorer.
Cowell, Henry. 1887-1965. US avant-garde composer. Tone Clusters.