Congreve, William. 1670-1729. English playwright of manners. Way of the World 1700.

Constant de Rebecque, Benjamin. 1767-1830. Swiss/French author. Adolphe.

Consulate. 1799-1804. Napoleon’s military triumvirate after Directory overthrown.

Convention of 1818. Established 49th parallel as US-Canada border.

Conway Cabal. 1777 plot to replace Washington with Gates at head of Continental Army.

Cook, Thomas. 1808-92. English. First modern conducted tours, 1841.

Copland, Aaron. 1900-90. US composer blending Jewish, folk, jazz, and Latin influences into a popular style. Experimented with serial techniques.

Corinth. 1350BC “Founded by Sisyphus”. 243BC Achaean League. 146 Rome destroys, rebuilds 46BC. Byzantine. 1458 Ottoman. 1687 Venice. 1715 Ottoman 1822 Greece.

Corinth Canal. 1882-93.

Corinthian. Most recent style of Classical Greek Architecture. Acanthus leaves on column capital.

Corinthian Wars. 395-387BC. Athens and allies overcome Spartan domination.

Corsica. 6C BC Phocaean. Etruscan. 278BC Carthage. 259BC Rome. 5C Vandal. 6C Byzantine. 8C Papacy. 10C Saracen. 1077 Pisa. 1296 Genoa, Aragon dispute. 1569 Genoa. 1768 France. 1794 Britain. 1796 France 1814-15 British occupy. WWII Germans occupy.

Coué, Émile. 1857-1926. French Positivist psychotherapist. Autosuggestion. “Every day and in every way I am getting better and better.” 1920.

Council of the Republic. 1917. Russian provisional government.

Counter-Reformation. 1517-1622. Catholic reform that followed the Reformation. Trent.

Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion. 1746-. Methodist Calvinistic sect.

Coup d’État. Overthrow of existing government by force.

Courbet, Gustave. 1819-77. French Realist painter, socialist activist. Commune. The Artist’s Studio 1855.

Court of Miracles. In Middle Ages in Paris, area where beggars lived at night, shedding their wooden legs, etc.

Cousin, Jean the Elder. 1490-1560. French painter. Eva Prima Pandora, early French nude.

Couthon, Georges. 1755-94. French aide to Robespierre. Guillotined.

Cowper, William. 1731-1800. English poet. The Task.

Craig, James. 1871-1940. First Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, 1921-.

Cranach, Lucas. 1472-1553. German painter and engraver. Luther 1533.

Cranmer, Thomas. 1489-1556. First Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury. Executed by Queen Mary.

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