Dorylaeum, Battle. 1097. First Crusade victory over Turks. 1147. 2nd Crusade Turkish victory.

Dragoon, Operation. = Operation Anvil.

Drake, Francis. 1540-96. English pirate/explorer. Sailed around the world 1580. Vice Admiral at defeat of Spanish Armada, 1588. Privateers.

Dravidians. Invaded India, 3250-2750BC.

Dresden, Battle. 1813. Last major Napoleonic victory in Germany.

Dreyfus, Alfred. 1859-1935. Jewish French officer. Trial divided France, 1894-1906. Unjustly sent to Devil’s Island on forged evidence. Zola. Esterhazy.

Dual Monarchy. 1867. Austrian Empire divided into Austrian, Hungarian kingdoms under one king. Ausgleich.

Dualism. Cartesian division of world into mind and matter.

Dualism, Christian. Christ’s nature is human and divine. Nestor. Monophysitism. Monothelitism.

Dualism, Religious. Belief in 2 opposed deities, usually good and evil. Gnosticism.

Dubcek, Alexander. 1921-92. Czech First Secretary, 1968-9. Attempted reforms led to Soviet Invasion.

Dufy, Raoul. 1877-1953. French Fauvist painter.

Dühring, Karl. 1873-1921. German Positivist philosopher.

Dundee, Viscount “Bonnie”. c1649-89. Killed leading revolt vs William of Orange for James II.

Dunstan, St. 924-88. Abbott, Archbishop of Canterbury. Advised Wessex kings. Monastic reforms.

Durand Line. 1893. Divided Afghanistan from British India.

Durant, Will. 1885-1981, Ariel 1898-1981. US historians. Story of Civilization.

Durkheim, Emile. 1858-1917. French sociologist. Division of Labour in Society 1893.

Dutch Revolt. 1566-79. Calvinist north vs Spanish Hapsburgs. United Provinces. Spanish Armada.

Dutch Wars. 1672-8. French expansionism thwarted by United Provinces. Anglo-Dutch Wars.

Earhart, Amelia. 1898-1937. US aviator. First solo Atlantic flight by a woman, 1932. Lost in attempt to circle planet.

Eckmühl. Battle. 1809. Bavaria. Napoleon’s victory over Austria who lose German support.

Economic Crisis. 1873. Vienna stock market collapse leads to protectionism, Depression.

Edgehill, Battle. 1642. First battle of English Civil War.

Edison, Thomas. 1847-1931. US inventor: imp telephone 1877, phonograph 1877, lightbulb 1878, movies, cast concrete 1907. Menlo Park, first industrial research laboratory.

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