Via Montgolfier - first steam boat

Via The Sindh - British victory

Via Benin - origin of country's name

Via Snippets - first modern newspaper

Via Snippets - first Eng. Newspaper

Via Diderot - French mathematician

Via Melville - Am. writer of the sea

Via East India Companies - formed

Via Japanese Civil War - final battle

Via Nietzche- Italian poet and novelist

Italian poet - The Divine Comedy

Via First Anglo-Burmese War

Via Plymouth Brethren - evangelist

Via Lost Colony - first colonist

Via Montgolfier Brothers - first flight

Via Snippets - heroine at sea

Via Mary Qn of Scots - murdered '67

Via Adams- Ger.astronomer- Neptune

English naturalist - Origin of Species

Via Wright - English physician

Via Marx - work by Marx & Engels

Via Buffon - French naturalist

Via Fr.Religious Wars - French poet

Via Barbizon School - French painter

Via Bizet - Frenchwriter - Mon Moulin

Via Daudet - wife of writer

Via Balzac - French caricature artist

Via Wales - rebel leader executed

Via Snippets - tennis tournament

Via American Civil War - ldr in south

Via Frobisher - English explorer

Via Antarctic - Am. naval captain

Via Phoenix Park Murders - radical

Via Paul Revere - ride to Lexington

Via Gericault - commander of Medusa

Via Internationale - Belgian composer

Via Snippets - Brit. geological survey

Via Jamestown - English Colonist

Via Pre-Raphaelites - English potter

Via Auto Industry -Swiss engineer

Via Pizarro - explores Florida

Via 2nd Anglo-Boer War - Boer ldr.

Via Varley - English watercolour artist

Via Austria-Hungary - statesman

Via Redon - Modern movement in art

Via Snippets - adopted by the French

Via Charles II - re. nonconformists

Via Sidney - Eng.mathematician

Via Tull - Am.blacksmith - steel plough

Via Thirty Yrs War - the cause

English writer - Robinson Crusoe

Via Manet - French painter

Via Lady Jane Gray - French painter

Via Empress of India - proclamation

French composer - Ballet Coppelia

Via Elgar - English composer

Via Arctic - American naval explorer

Via Prince Eugene - defeated

Via Africa- Eng.explorer- Lake Chad

Via Union of Kalmar - with Nor.& Sw.

Via Pope - English dramatist/critic

Via Snippets - re. bunsen burner

Via Bichat - French anatomist

Via Edward II - rule of favourites

Via Toussaint - Emperor of Haiti

Via Thirty Yrs War - Catholic victory

Via Louis XIV- claims Sp.Netherlands

Via Froebel - American educator

Via Snippets - classification of books

Via Bering - Russian explorer

Via Diderot - Fr/German philosopher

Via Varennes - Marie Antoinette

Via Barbizon School - French painter

Via Edison - Scottish engineer

French philosophe - Encyclopedie

Via Peninsular War-Battle of Albuera

Via Tasman - governor DEI company

Via Daimler - German engineer

Via Seven Yrs War-political alignment

Via Basle Treaties - Fr.government

Via the Mason-Dixon Line

Via the Mason-Dixon Line - surveyor

Via Battle of Kulikovo - Russian leader

Via Twain-Am.writer-The Silver Blades

English author - Alice in Wonderland

Via Fourth Anglo-Dutch War

Via Snippets - Thames Watermen

Via Snippets - introduced in USA

Via Albigensian Crusade- Dominicans

Via Albigensian Crusade - approved

Via First Carlist War - "Charles V"

Via Third Carlist War - "Carlos VII"

Via Lepanto - Sp.victorious general

Via First Sino-Japanese War

Italian opera composer - bel canto

Via Snippets - English engineer

Via Jameson Raid - British defeat

Via Adams - Austrian physicist

Via Barnardo - French illustrator

Via Suleyman - Cmdr Habsburg navy

Via Schliemann-German archaeologist

Via Second Crusade - Xn defeat

Via Sp.-Am.War- Spanish victory

Via First Anglo-Afghan War

Russian novelist - The Idiot

Via Snippets - American baseball

Via Oscar Wilde - partner

Via Smeaton - English civil engineer

Via Charles II - with Louis XIV

Via Monteverdi -English lute player

Via Pepys - George Downing

Via Snippets - first oil well in USA

Via Daguerre - American astronomer

Via Retreat from Moscow - Fr.victory

Via Fontenoy - Austria loses Silesia.

Via Dreyfus Affair - French officer

French poet - member of La Pleiade

Via Kipling - Fr/Eng writer - Trilby

Via Maxwell - Fr.colour photographer

Via Constantinople- French composer

Via Strauss - French composer

Via Dumas - French novelist - Camille

Fr.novelist - The Three Musketeers

Via Pasteur - French chemist

Via Ross - Fr.explorer of Antarctica

Via Battle of Solferino - Red Cross

Via John Balliol - defeated by E1

Via Cromwell - Scots defeated

Via Spithead and Nore Mutinies

Via Killiecrankie-leader of Scot.revolt

Via Treaty of Pyrenees - Sp.defeat

Via Anglo-Dutch War - Dutch victory

Via Killiecrankie - end of Scot.revolt

Via Auto Industry - Scottish inventor

Via Snippets - English folk custom

Via George III - Crown influence

Via Constable - amateur artist

Via Anglo-French war, India

Via Barbizon School - French painter

Via Fulton - modern submarine

Via Appert - introduces tinned food

Via Monet - French art dealer

Via Union of Canada Act - reform

Via Canada Act - Governor general

Via Ross - Fr.explorer of Antarctica

Via Auto Industry - Am.engineers

Via East India Companies - formed

Czech composer - Slavonic Dances

Via Pre-Raphaelites - Scottish artist

Via Guiscard - defeat of Byz. forces