Borgia, Lucrezia. 1480-1519. Daughter of Pope Alexander VI. Known for vices and crimes.

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

Borneo. 7C BC Indian influence. 3C BC-15C Chinese inf. 3C-15C Funan/Khmer, Malacca, Srivijaya, Majapahit. 15C Moslem. 16C- European inf. 19C Dutch(S)/Eng(N). WWII Japan occupies. Brunei. Malaysia. Indonesia.

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.

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

Boudin, Eugene. 1824-98. French naturalist open-air painter. Beach at Deauville 1869.

Bougainville, Louis. 1729-1811. First French circumnavigation 1766-9. Voyage autour du monde 1771.

Bourges, Pragmatic Sanction. 1438. French Charles VIII supports Gallicanism vs pope.

Bouvines, Battle. 1214. French defeat English, HRE coalition. Recapture Angou...France a major power.

Bowditch, Nathaniel. 1773-1838. US self-educated astronomer, mathematician. New American Practical Navigator 1802.

Boxer Rebellion. 1900. Massacre of ‘foreign devils’ by Chinese led to reprisals and Peking Protocol.

Brady, Matthew. c1823-96. US Civil War photographer.

Brahma. Vedic Hindu god with Vishnu, Siva. Creator.

Brahmavihara. Brahman heaven, attained by sympathy, compassion, joy, equanimity.

Brains Trust. 1932. Roosevelt’s advisers on New Deal.

Brandywine, Battle. 1777. British victory in American Revolution. Diversion led to loss at Saratoga.

Braque, Georges. 1882-1963. French painter. Developed Cubism with Picasso. First living artist in Louvre. Man with Guitar 1911.

Brazzaville Declaration. 1944. Established colonial representation in French parliament, but not autonomy.

Breitenfeld, Battles. 1631,42. Swedish victories over Catholic League in 30 Years War. Sweden a great power.

Brendan, St. 484-578. Celtic abbot, legendary Atlantic navigator to North America.

Brest-Litovsk, Treaty. 1918. Russia exits WWI leaving 1/3 population in German hands.

Breviary of Alaric. 506. Visigoth law code.

Brewster, David. 1781-1868. Scottish discoverer of light polarization 1799, kaleidoscope 1817.

Brezhnev, Leonid. 1906-82. Soviet First Secretary 1964-. Detente. Brezhnev Doctrine.

Brezhnev Doctrine. 1968. Justified Czech invasion by Soviet right to defend Socialism worldwide.

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