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Annates. Proportion of first year’s income paid to Pope by office holders.
Anne. 1665-1714. British Queen 1702-. Reign notable for literarature, science, architecture. Last Stuart. Acts of Union, Settlement.
Anne of Austria. 1601-66. Wife of Louis XIII. Founded Feuillantines, 1622; Val-de-Grâce, 1638. Regent for Louis XIV until he became of age.
Annual Register. 1759-. English political record. Burke.
Anouilh, Jean. 1910-87. French dramatist: Antigone, Becket 1959.
Anschluss. Austrian “reunification” with Germany, 1938 by plebiscite-99.75% for.
Anselm, St. 1033-1109. Archbishop of Canterbury, founder of Scholasticism. Proved God exists 1078.
Ansgar, St. 801-65. Patron saint of Scandinavia.
Antarctic Treaty. 1959. 12 nations agree for 30 years of demilitarized, nuclear free scientific study.
Antarctica. 1773 Cook explores seas. 1820 first sighted. Bransfield. 1821 first landing-Davis. 1911 Amundsen first to S Pole.
Anthony, St. 1195-1231. Franciscan, protector of common people.
Anthony, St. 250-c355. Egyptian hermit, first Christian monk.
Anthony of Padua, St. 1195-1231. Franciscan teacher in S. France, Italy.
Anthroposophy. Human power to contact spiritual world. Steiner.
Anti-Clericalism. Hostility to church political power.
Anti-Corn Law League. 1839-46. Cobden and Bright’s pacifist movement for Free Trade, public education, against social reform and Chartists. Corn Laws.
Anti-Semitism. Racial prejudice against Jews. Pogrom. Final Solution.
Anti-Socialist Law. 1878-90. Germans ban unions.
Antigone. Priam’s sister. Hair turned to snakes.
Antigonid. 277-168BC. Dynasty ruling Greece and Macedonia.
Antigua. Carib. 1493 Columbus discovers. 1632 English settle. 18C slave trade. 1958-62 West Indies Federation. 1967 Self-government. 1981 Independent +Barbuda.
Antinomianism. 16C Belief that some Christians by special faith need not obey Old Testament moral laws.
Antioch. 300BC Seleucus I founds. 64BC Rome. First reference to disciples as Christians c42. 540 Persia. 637 Moslem. 10-11C Syrian capital. 969 Byzantine. 1098 Crusader State. 1268 Egypt. 1517 Ottoman. 1920 Syria. 1939 Turkey.
Antipope. Elected in opposition to existing pope. Schism.