Assignats. French legal tender, 1789-96. Overissue caused inflation. Became worth 1% of face value.

Asturias. Former Spanish kingdom. 3-2C BC Rome. 5C Visigoth. 718-910 Only Christian kingdom on Iberia. 910 + León.

Athanagild. ~567. Visigoth King of Spain. Ended persecution of Catholics.

Athanasius, St. c296-373. Bishop of Alexandria: advocated Doctine of Trinity (Father, Son, Holy Ghost) vs divinity of Christ. Council of Nicaea.

Atheism. Positive disbelief in the existence of God.

Athelstan. 895-939. First king of all England 925-. Regulated Royal Mint 928.

Athena. Greek goddess of wisdom. = Minerva.

Athenian League. 378-338BC. Refounded Delian League. War with Sparta 378-371BC.

Athens. 3000BC. 6C BC growth. 5C decline. 4C Macedonia (aut). 27 BC Rome. 1458 Ottoman. 1834 Greek capital.

Athos, Mt. 963-. Greek theocracy, site of Orthodox monasteries.

Atlantic Cable. 1866. Telegraphic link between North America and Europe.

Atlantis. Legendary island which disappeared after earthquake.

Atlas. King of Titans, turned into a mountain to support the sky.

Atom Bomb. 1945 US. 1949 USSR. 1952 Britain. 1960 France. 1964 China. 1974 India. 1989 South Africa (dismantled). 1998 Pakistan. ? Israel. 1990s Argentina, Brazil. Soon: Iraq, Iran, North Korea. H-Bomb. Neutron Bomb.

Atreus. King of Mycenae. Father of Agamemnon and Menelaus.

Atropos. Fate of the inevitable, cut the string of life.

Attica. Region around Athens in ancient Greece.

Attila. 406-453. Leader of the Huns. 434 attacked Gaul, defeated at Catalonia in 451. “The Scourge of God”.

Attlee, Clement. 1883-1967. British Labour Prime Minister. 1945-51. National Health. Nationalization.

Attwood, Thomas. 1783-1856. British Chartist.

Auden, W.H. 1907-73. English/US poet/opera librettist. The Rake’s Progress 1951.

Audubon, John. 1785-1851. US ornitholigist, artist. Birds of America.

Augereau, Pierre. 1757-1816. Marshal under the Napoleonic Empire.

Augsburg, Peace. 1555. Allowed both Lutheranism and Catholicism within Holy Roman Empire.

Augsburg Confession. 1530. Doctrine of faith of Lutheran Church. Consubstantiation. Predestination. Diet of Augsburg. Melanchthon.

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