The Hutchinson Pocket Dictionary of History

483 Pages·2007·21.754 MB·English

by  Helicon Publishing

The Hutchinson Pocket Dictionary of History
Preface
The Hutchinson Pocket Dictionary of History is a reference book, with entries
arranged in A–Z format. To go directly to a particular entry, click on the link in the
table of contents. There are also links between entries – click on any underlined word
to jump to the related entry.

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Table of contents
A
Abelard, Peter
abolitionism
Abraham, Plains of
absolutism (government)
Acre
Actium, Battle of
Adams, John
Adams, John Quincy
Aden
Adenauer, Konrad
Adrian IV
affirmative action
Afghan Wars
Agincourt, Battle of
agrarian revolution
Agricola, Gnaeus Julius
agricultural revolution
aircraft carrier
Akihito
Akkad
Aksum
Albert, Prince Consort
Albion
Alexander
Alexander III (pope)
Alexander VI (pope)
Alexander
Alexander I (of Russia)
Alexander II (of Russia)
Alexander III (of Russia)
Alexander
Alexander I (of Scotland)
Alexander II (of Scotland)
Alexander III (of Scotland)
Alexander I, Karageorgevich (of Yugoslavia)
Alexander Nevski, St
Alexander (III) the Great
Alexandria (Egypt)
Alexandria, Library of
Alexandria, school of
Alexius
Alexius I, Comnenus
Alexius IV, Angelos
Alfonso
Alfonso (X), the Wise
Alfonso XIII
Alfred the Great
Algiers, Battle of
Ali
Allende (Gossens), Salvador
Allies, the
Amal
Amenhotep III
American Civil War
American Revolution
Amin (Dada), Idi
Amundsen, Roald Engelbrecht Gravning
Angevin
Anglo-American War
Anglo-Saxon
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Anne
Anne, Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise
anthropology
antibiotic
Antioch (Syria)
Antiochus
Antiochus (III) the Great
Antiochus IV (of Syria)
Antiochus VII
anti-Semitism
Antonine Wall
Antoninus Pius, Titus Aurelius Fulvus
Appomattox Court House
Aquinas, St Thomas
Arab–Israeli Wars
Arafat, Yassir
archaeology
Aristides
aristocracy
Arkwright, Richard
Armada
armour
arms trade
Arnhem, Battle of
Arthur
artillery
Asquith, Herbert Henry
Assad, Hafez al
assassination
assize
Assyria
Astor
Atatürk, Kemal
Atlantic, Battle of the (World War I)
Atlantic, Battle of the (World War II)
atomic bomb
Attila
Attlee, Clement (Richard)
Augustus
Aung San
Aurangzeb
Auschwitz
Austerlitz, Battle of
Austrian Succession, War of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Avebury
Axis
Aztec
B
Baader–Meinhof gang
Baal
Babel
Babi Yar
Babylon
Bacon, Francis (politician)
Baden (Germany)
Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth
Balaclava, Battle of
Baldwin, Stanley
Balfour Declaration
Balkan Wars
Banda, Hastings Kamuzu
Bandaranaike, Sirimavo
Bannockburn, Battle of
Bantustan
Barbie, Klaus
Barebones Parliament
Barnardo, Thomas John
Barons' Wars
barrow
Bastille
Bataan
bayonet
Beaconsfield (title)
Beaker people
Beatrix, (Wilhelmina Armgard)
Beaverbrook, (William) Max(well) Aitken
Bechuanaland
Becket, St Thomas à
Bede
Begin, Menachem
Bell, Alexander Graham
Benedict, St
Bengal
Ben-Gurion, David
Benin (province)
Bentham, Jeremy
Bering, Vitus Jonassen
Berlin (city)
Berlin blockade
Berlin Wall
Bessemer process
Bevan, Aneurin (Nye)
Bevin, Ernest
Biafra, Republic of
Bible
Bikini Atoll
Biko, Steve
Bill of Rights (USA)
Bill of Rights (English)
Billy the Kid
binary weapon
biological warfare
Bismarck, Otto Eduard Leopold von
Black Death
black nationalism
Black National State
Black Power
Black Prince
Blackshirts
Blair, Tony
Bligh, William
Blitzkrieg
Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von
Blunt, Anthony Frederick
Boadicea
Boeotia
Boer
Boer War
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus
Bohemia
Bokassa, Jean-Bédel
Boleyn, Anne
Bolingbroke
Bolingbroke, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Bolívar, Simón
Bolshevik
bomb
Bonaparte
Bonney, William H
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Boone, Daniel
Booth, William
bootlegging
Borgia, Cesare
Borgia, Lucrezia
Boris Godunov
Bornu
borstal
Boston Tea Party
Bosworth, Battle of
Botha, Louis
Botha, P(ieter) W(illem)
Bothwell, James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell
Boudicca
Boyne, Battle of the
Bradley, Omar Nelson
Braganza
Brandt, Willy
Breakspear, Nicholas
Bretton Woods
Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich
Britain
Britain, ancient
Britain, Battle of
British East India Company
British Honduras
British Somaliland
Bronze Age
Brown, John (American)
Brownshirts
Bruce
Bruce, Robert
Brutus, Marcus Junius
Bull, John (imaginary figure)
Bunker Hill, Battle of
Burgundy (ancient)
Burke, Edmund
Burton, Richard Francis
Byrd, Richard Evelyn
Byzantine Empire
Byzantium
C
Cabot, Sebastian
Caboto, Giovanni
Cádiz
Caesar
Caesar, Gaius Julius
calendar
Caligula
caliph
Calvin, John
Canaan
canal
Canterbury
Canute
capitalism
Cappadocia
carbon dating
Carnegie, Andrew
Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguérite
Carter, Jimmy
Carthage
Cartier, Jacques
Cartwright, Edmund
Cassius
Castile
castle
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart
Castro (Ruz), Fidel Alejandro
Catherine (II) the Great
Catherine de' Medici
Catherine of Aragón
Catholic Emancipation
CAT scan
cavalier
Cavour, Camillo Benso di, Count
Ceausescu, Nicolae
Cecil, Robert
Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville
Chamberlain, (Joseph) Austen
Chamberlain, Joseph
Chandragupta Maurya
chanson de geste
Charge of the Light Brigade
Charlemagne, Charles I the Great
Charles
Charles I (of Great Britain and Ireland)
Charles II (of Great Britain and Ireland)
Charles, (Charles Philip Arthur George)
Charles
Charles I (of France)
Charles (V) the Wise
Charles (VI) the Mad
Charles VII (of France)
Charles IX (of France)
Charles X (of France)
Charles
Charles (II) the Bald
Charles IV (Holy Roman Emperor)
Charles V
Charles VI
Charles, (Karl Franz Josef)
Charles
Charles II (of Spain)
Charles III
Charles IV (of Spain)
Charles, (Swedish Carl)
Charles X (of Sweden)
Charles XII
Charles XIV
Charles Edward Stuart
Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy
Chartism
Chaucer, Geoffrey
chemical warfare
Chetnik
Chiang Ching
Chiang Kai-shek
Chinese Revolution
cholera
Chou En-lai
Christian
Christian IV
Christina
Christmas
Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
Churchill, Winston (Leonard Spencer)
Cid, El, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar
Cinque Ports
civil-rights movement
Civil War, American
Civil War, English
Civil War, Spanish
clan
Clarendon, Edward Hyde
Claudius I
Clausewitz, Carl Philipp Gottlieb von
Cleopatra
Clive, Robert
Cnut
Cody, William Frederick
Cold War
Collins, Michael
Colosseum
Columbus, Christopher
Combination Acts
Comintern
commando
common land
commonwealth
Commonwealth, the (British)
commune
Commune, Paris
communism
comprehensive school
computerized axial tomography
concentration camp
Confederacy
Confederation, Articles of
Confucius
conquistador
conscientious objector
conscription
Constantinople
consul (Roman history)
Continental Congress
Contra
Cook, James
Coolidge, (John) Calvin
Copenhagen, Battle of
Corinth (town)
Corn Laws
Cornwallis, Charles, 1st Marquis and 2nd Earl
Cortés, Hernán Ferdinand
Cosgrave, William Thomas
Cossack
Council of Europe
Council of the European Union
Counter-Reformation
county palatine
Covenanter
Craig, James
Cranmer, Thomas
Crassus the Elder, Marcus Licinius
Crassus the Younger, Marcus Licinius
Crécy, Battle of
Crick, Francis Harry Compton
Crimean War
croft
Cromwell, Oliver
Cromwell, Thomas
crusade
Culloden, Battle of
Cultural Revolution
cuneiform
Custer, George Armstrong
Cymbeline
Cyrus (II) the Great
D
Dachau
Dacia
Dahomey
danegeld
Danelaw
Danton, Georges Jacques
dauphin
David
David
David I
David II
Davis, Jefferson
Davy, Humphry
D-day
Dead Sea Scrolls
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Rights
Defender of the Faith
de Gaulle, Charles André Joseph Marie
Delphi
democracy
Demosthenes (politician)
Deng Xiaoping
détente
de Valera, Éamon
Diana, Princess of Wales
diaspora
Diaz, Bartholomeu
Digger
Diocletian
Dionysius
disarmament
Disraeli, Benjamin
doge
Dollfuss, Engelbert