Boucher, Francois. 1703-70. French mythological and landscape painter. Louis XV Rococo Style. Mme de Pompadour favourite. “Decorator of Boudoirs”. Déjeuner 1738.

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

Bounty, HMS. 1789 Mutiny vs Bligh.

Bourbon. 1327~1848 French dynasty. 1700~ Spain. 1734-1860 Naples.

Bourdelle, Antoine. 1861-1929. French sculptor. Simplified Greek style of heroic energy. Heracles 1910.

Bourgeoisie. French merchant, craft class. Marxist term for those who do not live by the sale of their labour. Proletariat.

Bourne, Randolph. 1886-1918. US pacifist essayist. Untimely Papers 1919.

Boveri, Theodor. 1864-1915. German cytologist. Chromosomes, 1904.

Bowdler, Thomas. 1754-1825. English publisher of expurgated Family Shakespeare 1818.

Bowring, Treaty. 1855. Opened Siam to British trade.

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

Boxers. 1896-1901. Chinese secret Society of Harmonious Fists vs foreigners. B Rebellion.

Boyacá, Battle. 1819. South American rebels win independence from New Granada from Spain. Bolivar. Santander.

Boyar. 10-17C. Russ. noble landowners.

Boycott, Charles. 1832-97. English land agent boycotted in Ireland, 1879. Land League.

Boyle, Robert. 1627-91. English scientist. Gas law: given T, PV=k, 1662.

Boyne, Battle. 1690. James II attempts to retake throne; defeated by William III, ending Catholic Stuart power in Ireland. Celebrated by Orangemen, Jul 12.

Brabant Revolution. 1789-90. Belgians vs Hapsburgs. Crushed by Austrian forces.

Brackenridge, Hugh. 1748-1816. Scottish/US novelist. Modern Chivalry 1792.

Bradley, F.H. 1846-1924. English Idealist philosopher. Appearances and Reality 1893.

Bradley, Omar. 1893-1981. US D-Day General.

Brady, Diamond Jim. 1856-1917. US millionaire speculator.

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

Braganca. Ruling dynasty of Portugal 1640-1910, Brazil 1822-89.

Bragg, William. 1862-1942. English discoverer of crystallography by x-ray diffraction. with son Lawrence (1890-1971).

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