Bonaparte, Joseph. 1768-1844. King of Naples 1806-8. King of Spain 1808-13. Napoleon’s brother.

Bonaparte, Louis. 1778-1846. King of Holland 1806-10. Forced to abdicate after opposing Continental System. Napoleon’s brother.

Bonaventure, St. 1217-1274. Italian Franciscan theologian.

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

Book of the Dead. 24-16C BC. Egyptian prayers and spells buried with deceased.

Boole, George. 1815-64. British mathematician. Algebra of Logic 1854.

Booth, Charles. 1840-1916. English social reformer. 17 volume Life and Labour of the People in London 1891-1903.

Booth, John Wilkes. 1838-65. US actor. Shot Lincoln, 1865.

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

Bordeaux. 4C Rome. 412 Goths. 508 Clovis. 1154 English. 1453 France.

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

Boreas. Greek personification of the north wind.

Borges, Jorge Luis. 1899-1986. Argentinian writer. Labyrinths.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Boswell, James. 1740-95. Scottish author. Life of Samuel Johnson 1791.

Bosworth Field, Battle. 1485. Tudor victory, ended War of Roses. Richard III killed.

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.

Boucher, Francois. 1703-70. French mythological and landscape painter. Louis XV Rococo Style. Mme de Pompadour favourite. “Decorator of Boudoirs”. Déjeuner 1738.

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