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Dylan, Bob (Robert Zimmerman). 1941-. US composer/performer. Founded Folk Rock.
Dyrrhachium, Battle. 48BC. Pompey defeats Caesar.
Ealdred. -1069. Anglo-Saxon archbishop of York 1060-: crowned William the Conqueror.
Earhart, Amelia. 1898-1937. US aviator. First solo Atlantic flight by a woman, 1932. Lost in attempt to circle planet.
East India Companies. British, Dutch, French. Danish 1614-1729. Austrian, 1720-7.
Eastern Crisis. 1839-41. British suppression of Muhammed Ali’s Egyptian expansion.
Eastern Empire. Byzantine Empire.
Eastern Orthodoxy. Branch of Christianity. East-West Schism.
Eastern Question. 19-20C. Instability caused by decline of Turkish rule led to Crimean War and WWI.
Echo. Greek mountain nymph.
Eckhart, Johannes. c1260-1328. German mystic. “All existence is God” 1281.
Eckmühl. Battle. 1809. Bavaria. Napoleon’s victory over Austria who lose German support.
Eclecticism. 2C BC. Philosophical doctrine combining elements of various, sometimes contradictory, philosophies. Cicero.
École Militaire. 1752. French Royal Military Academy. Gabriel.
École Polytechnique. 1794-. French college of high repute. Replaced Navarre. Graduates are the “X”.
Ecumenicalism. 1846-. Movement to unite all Christian churches.
Eddy, Mary Baker. 1821-1910. US founder of Christian Science Religion. Wrote Science and Health 1875.
Eden, Anthony. 1897-1977. British Prime Minister 55-7. Resigned over Suez Crisis.
Edinburgh, Treaty. 1560. France and England withdraw from Scotland.
Edington, Battle. 878. King Alfred, Wessex only Anglo-Saxon kingdom to withstand Danes.
Edison, Thomas. 1847-1931. US inventor: imp telephone 1877, phonograph 1877, lightbulb 1878, movies, cast concrete 1907. Menlo Park, first industrial research laboratory.
Edmund, St. -870. King of Anglia. Martyred. Remains moved to Bury St. Edmunds 903.
Edmund, St. c1175-1240. Archbishop of Canterbury, 1233-. Won reforms from Henry III.
Edmund II Ironside. c993-1016. English King 1016. Defeated by Canute 1016, kept Wessex.