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Corelli, Arcangelo. 1653-1713. Italian violinist and composer. Early developer of concerto 1712.
Corfu Incident. 1923. Italy occupies Corfu.
Corfu Pact. 1917. Called for creation of Yugoslavia.
Corinth. 1350BC “Founded by Sisyphus”. 243BC Achaean League. 146 Rome destroys, rebuilds 46BC. Byzantine. 1458 Ottoman. 1687 Venice. 1715 Ottoman 1822 Greece.
Corinthian. Most recent style of Classical Greek Architecture. Acanthus leaves on column capital.
Corneille, Pierre. 1606-84. French tragic playwright. La Veuve 1634. Nicomède 1636. Le Cid 1637.
Cornwallis, Charles. 1738-1805. British General. Ended American Revolution by surrender at Yorktown.
Coronado, Francisco de. 1510-54. Spanish explorer. Grand Canyon, 1540.
Corporate State. Mussolini economic system. Capitalist elements in state controlled economy.
Corpus Juris Civilis. Developed 529-35. Roman legal code. Influenced European legal systems.
Corregio. 1494-1534. Italian painter. Anticipated Baroque Style. Virgin and St. Francis 1515. Adoration 1530. Leda and Swans 1531.
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.
Cortes. Spanish National Assembly.
Corvée. Statute labour. Abolished 1792 Fr, 1891 Egypt.
Coster, Laurens. 1370-c1440. Dutch inv of moveable type, perhaps before Gutenberg.
Cotton Famine. 1861-5. English depression due to supply cut-off during American Civil War.
Coty, René. 1882-1962. President of France, 1954-59. Algerian Crisis 1958, led to return of deGaulle.
Coubertin, Pierre. 1863-1937. French educator, Olympics organizer.
Coué, Émile. 1857-1926. French Positivist psychotherapist. Autosuggestion. “Every day and in every way I am getting better and better.” 1920.
Coulomb, Charles de. 1736-1806. French naval engineer, defined unit of electricity. Electrical attraction 1785.
Country Party. 1913-. Australian pro-agriculture party. Small but influential in coalition governments.
Count’s War. 1533-36. Danish war of succession. Confirmed Protestant Reformation and hereditary succession.
Coup d’État. Overthrow of existing government by force.
Couperin. 17-18C French family of Baroque composers.