Henry VI. 1421-71. King of England and France 1422-61, 70-1. Founded King’s College Cambridge, Eton. Lost France except Calais. Weakness led to War of Roses. Deposed.

Henry VII. 1457-1509. First Tudor King of England 1485-. Defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field, 1485. Ended War of Roses. United Lancasters, Yorks.

Henry VIII. 1491-1547. King of England 1509-. Executed Thomas More. Established Church of England. Dissolved monasteries. Six wives: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr.

Heptarchy. 5-9C. Seven kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England: Kent, Essex, Sussex, Wessex, Mercia, E. Anglia, Northumbria. Frequent wars.

Herbert, Victor. 1859-1924. Irish/US operetta composer. Babes in Toyland 1903.

Herculano, Alexandre. 1810-77. Portuguese Romantic poet.

Herder, Johann von. 1744-1803. German Sturm and Drang Nationalist writer. Stimulated Romanticism.

Hermandad. 1250-1550. Castile-Aragon defensive alliance.

Hermaphroditus. Greek deity with male and female attributes.

Hermetic Texts. 1/3 C Egyptian astrology and magic books.

Hero. Lover of Leander.

Herodotus. c484-420BC. Greek historian and explorer. “Father of History”-Cicero.

Heron of Alexandria. 1C. Greek mathematician. Area of triangle. Metrica.

Herrera, Fernando de. 1534-97. Spanish Humanist poet.

Hershey, Milton. 1857-1945. US chocolate maker and philanthropist.

Herzen, Aleksandr. 1812-70. Russian revolutionary writer.

Hesiod. c800BC. Greek poet. Works and Days.

Hess. Rudolph. 1894-1987. German Nazi leader. Flew to Scotland, 1941. Sentenced to life at Nuremberg.

Highland Garb Act. 1746-82. Prohibited wearing of tartan.

Hildebrandt, Johann von. 1668-1745. Austrian Baroque architect. Belvedere Palace 1700.

Hill, Mildred and Patty. Wrote Happy Birthday 1893.

Hillary, Sir Edmund. 1919-2008. New Zealand, first to climb Mt. Everest, 1953, with Tenzig Norgay.

Himmler, Heinrich. 1900-45. German Gestapo and SS head. Concentration camps. Suicide after Allied capture.

Hindenburg, Paul von. 1847-1934. Commander in Chief of the German armies 1916-18. President of Weimar Republic 1925-. Appointed Hitler chancellor 1933.

Hindustani. Hindi and Urdu languages.

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