Cyrus the Younger. -401BC. Conspired vs Artaxerxes. Killed at Cunaxa.

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.

Dada. Anarchistic, deliberately shocking “non-art” begun in Zurich, 1916. Led to Surrealism. Arp. Duchamp. Ernst.

Dagon. Semite/Philistine fertility god.

Daily Telegraph Affair. 1908. Unauthorized interview of Kaiser causes protests in Germany.

Daladier, Édouard. 1884-1970. French Prime Minister, 1933~40. Munich Agreement.

Dalai Lama. 14C- Leader of Tibetan Buddhists. Ruled Tibet until 1959 exile to India. Lamaism. Yellow Hats. Tenzin Gyatso.

Dale, Henry. 1875-1968. English physiologist. Nerve transmission process.

Dalhousie, First Marquess. 1812-60. British Governor General of India 1847-56. Annexed Punjab, 1849, Rangoon, Burma. Built railway, telegraph. Lapse doctrine caused Indian Mutiny.

Dali, Salvador. 1904-89. Spanish Surrealist painter of nightmare visions. Persistence of Memory. Crucifixion.

Dalmatia. Balkans. 1420 Venice. 1797 Austria. 1920 Yugoslavia. 1941 Italy occupies. 1947 Yugoslavia. 1992 Croatia.

Dalton, John. 1766-1844. English scientist. Law of Partial Pressures. Color blindness 1793.

Damascus. c2500BC. World’s oldest continuously inhabited city. Syria.

Damiens, Robert-François. 1715-1757. Stabbed Louis XV. Quartered.

Dampier, William. 1651-1715. First English scientific explorer. Pirate, 1678-91. New Voyage Round the World, 1697.

Dana, Charles. 1819-97. US journalist, editor. Attacked corruption.

Dana, Richard. 1815-82. US writer. Two Years Before the Mast.

Danaïdes. 50 daughters of Danaus. 49 condemed to fill sieves for murdering their husbands. Hypermestra.

Dandolo, Enrico. c1108-1205. Blind Venice Doge. Captured Constantinople 1204.

D’Annunzio, Gabriele. 1863-1938. Italian nationalist writer. Siezed Fiume 1919. Revived Roman salute.

Dante Alighieri. 1265-1321. Italian moralist poet. First vernacular. Banquet 1306. Divine Comedy 1321, printed 1472.

Dardanus. Greek ancestor of Trojan kings.

Dares Phrygius. Trojan Priest. Wrote about Trojan Wars.

Dario, Ruben. 1867-1916. Published Azul 1888, starting Modernismo movement.

Darius I. 550-486BC. Persian King 522-. Defeated by the Greeks at Marathon after expanding empire. Great builder and administrator.

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