Boniface, St. 675-754. Martyred British apostle to Germany.

Boniface IV, St. -615. Pope 608-. Instituted All Saint’s Day, Nov. 1.

Bonivard, François de. 1494-1570. Prior of St. Victori, Geneva. Reformer, imprisonned at Chillon, 1530-4. Subject of Byron poem.

Bonnard, Pierre. 1867-1947. French colorist, portrait artist.

Book of Concord. 1580. Lutheran liturgy: Apostles’ Creed, Nicene Creeds, Augsburg Confession.

Booth, William. 1829-1912. British reformer. Founder of Salvation Army, 1878. In Darkest England and the Way Out 1890.

Borden, Lizzie. 1860-1927. US. Acquitted of father’s and stepmother’s axe murders 1892.

Borden, Robert. 1854-1937. Canadian Cons Prime Minister 1911-20. Union Gov’t. Imperial War Cabinet. Women suffrage.

Bordet, Jules. 1870-1961. Belgian bacteriologist, immunologist.

Borgia, Cesare. 1476-1507. Ruthless Italian Machiavellian statesman. Son of Pope Alexander VI.

Boris I. -907. Ruler 852-89. Spread Christianity through Bulgaria.

Borlaug, Norman. 1914-. US wheat scientist responsible for Green Revolution.

Born, Max. 1882-1970. German/British quantum physicist. Mathematics of atom behavior.

Borromeo, St. Charles. 1538-84. Milan Cardinal. First Sunday school, 1580.

Bosanquet, Bernard. 1848-1923. English neo-Hegelian Idealist philosopher. History of Aesthetic 1892.

Bosch, Hieronymus. 1450-1516. Flemish allegorical moralist painter. Garden of Earthly Delights 1505.

Bosnia and Herzegovina. Balkans. 1180 Independent Kingdom. 1350 +Hum (Herzegovina). 1463 Ottoman. 1878 Austria-Hungary. 1797 France. 1805 Russia. 1918 Yugoslavia. 1946 Communist. 1992 Independent. 1993 Yugoslav Serbs invade. 1995 Dayton Accord.

Bosnian Crisis. 1908-9. Russia sides with Serbian rebels after Austria-Hungary annexation. Black Hand.

Bosphorus. Strategic strait at Constantinople. Nelidov.

Boston, Siege. 1775-6. US force British to evacuate.

Boston Massacre. 1770. British soldiers kill 5 colonists rioting vs Townshend Acts. A cause of the American Revolution.

Boston Tea Party. 1773. Colonials dump tea cargo to protest tax. Led to Intolerable Acts.

Botha, Louis. 1862-1919. First Prime Minister 1910- of South Africa.

Botticelli, Sandro. 1445-1510. Poetic Florentine Renaissance painter: Sistine fresco 1482.Birth of Venus 1485.

Bouchard, Henri. 1875-1960. Sculptor. Apollo, St-Pierre de Chaillot.

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