The Hutchinson Pocket Dictionary of History -- Preface -- Table of contents -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- A -- Abelard, Peter (1079-1142) -- French Pierre Abélard, -- abolitionism -- Abraham, Plains of -- absolutism -- or absolute monarchy, -- Acre -- Actium, Battle of -- Adams, John (1735-1826) -- Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848) -- Adams -- Aden -- Arabic 'Adan, -- Adenauer, Konrad (1876-1967) -- Adrian IV (c. 1100-1159) -- born Nicholas Breakspear, -- affirmative action -- Afghan Wars -- Afghan Wars -- Agincourt, Battle of -- agrarian revolution -- Agricola, Gnaeus Julius (40-93) -- agricultural revolution -- aircraft carrier -- Akihito (1933- ) -- Akkad -- Aksum -- or Axum, -- Albert, Prince Consort (1819-1861) -- Albion -- Alexander -- Alexander III (died 1181) -- born Orlando Bandinelli, -- Alexander VI (1430 or 1432-1503) -- born Rodrigo Borgia or Rodrigo Borja, -- Alexander -- Alexander I (1777-1825) -- Alexander II (1818-1881) -- Alexander II -- Alexander III (1845-1894) -- Alexander -- Alexander I (c. 1078-1124) -- Alexander II (1198-1249) -- Alexander III (1241-1286) -- Alexander I, Karageorgevich (1888-1934) -- Alexander Nevski, St (1220-1263) -- Alexander (III) the Great (356-323 BC) -- Alexandria -- or El Iskandarîya, -- Alexandria, Library of -- Alexandria, school of -- Alexius -- Alexius I, Comnenus (1048-1118) -- Alexius IV, Angelos (1182-1204) -- Alfonso -- Alfonso (X), the Wise (1221-1284) -- Alfonso XIII (1886-1941) -- Alfred the Great (c. 849-c. 901) -- Algiers, Battle of -- Ali (c. 598-661) -- Allende (Gossens), Salvador (1908-1973) -- Allies, the -- Amal -- Amenhotep III (1391-1353 BC) -- American Civil War -- American Revolution -- or War of American Independence, -- American Revolution -- Amin (Dada), Idi (1925-2003).

Amundsen, Roald Engelbrecht Gravning (1872-1928) -- Angevin -- Anglo-American War -- Anglo-Saxon -- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -- Anne (1665-1714) -- Anne, Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise (1950- ) -- anthropology -- (Greek anthropos 'man', logos 'discourse') -- antibiotic -- Antioch -- Antiochus -- Antiochus (III) the Great (c. 241-187 BC) -- Antiochus IV (c. 215-164 BC) -- Antiochus VII (c. 159-129 BC) -- anti-Semitism -- Antonine Wall -- Antoninus Pius, Titus Aurelius Fulvus (AD 86-161) -- Appomattox Court House -- Aquinas, St Thomas (1225-1274) -- Arab-Israeli Wars -- Arafat, Yassir (1929-2004) -- born Muhammad Yassir Abdul-Ra'ouf Arafat As Qudwa al-Husseini, -- archaeology -- (Greek archaia 'ancient things', logos 'study') -- Aristides (c. 530-468 BC) -- aristocracy -- (Greek aristos 'best', kratos 'power') -- Arkwright, Richard (1732-1792) -- Armada -- armour -- armour -- arms trade -- Arnhem, Battle of -- Arthur (lived 6th century) -- artillery -- Asquith, Herbert Henry (1852-1928) -- 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, -- Assad, Hafez al (1930-2000) -- assassination -- assize -- Assyria -- Assyria -- Assyria -- Astor -- Atatürk, Kemal (1881-1938) -- born Mustafa Kemal Pasha, -- (Turkish 'Father of the Turks') -- Atlantic, Battle of the -- Atlantic, Battle of the -- atomic bomb -- or atom bomb, -- Attila (c. 406-453) -- Attlee, Clement (Richard) (1883-1967) -- 1st Earl Attlee, -- Augustus (63 BC-AD 14) -- Aung San (1916-1947) -- Aurangzeb (or Aurungzebe) (1618-1707) -- Auschwitz -- Polish Oswiecim, -- Auschwitz gate -- Auschwitz -- Austerlitz, Battle of -- Austrian Succession, War of the -- Austro-Hungarian Empire -- Avebury -- Axis -- Aztec -- B -- Baader-Meinhof gang -- Baal -- (Semitic 'lord' or 'owner') -- Babel -- Babi Yar -- Babylon -- Babylon -- Babylon -- Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) -- 1st Baron Verulam and Viscount St Albans, -- Baden.

Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth (1857-1941) -- 1st Baron Baden-Powell, -- Balaclava, Battle of -- Baldwin, Stanley (1867-1947) -- 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, -- Balfour Declaration -- Balkan Wars -- Banda, Hastings Kamuzu (1905-1997) -- Bandaranaike, Sirimavo (1916-2000) -- born Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, -- Bannockburn, Battle of -- Bantustan -- or homeland, -- Barbie, Klaus (1913-1991) -- Barebones Parliament -- Barnardo, Thomas John (1845-1905) -- Barons' Wars -- barrow -- (Old English beorgh 'hill or mound') -- Bastille -- Bataan -- bayonet -- Beaconsfield -- Beaker people -- Beatrix, (Wilhelmina Armgard) (1938- ) -- Beaverbrook, (William) Max(well) Aitken (1879-1964) -- 1st Baron Beaverbrook, -- Bechuanaland -- Becket, St Thomas à (1118-1170) -- Becket -- Bede (c. 673-735) -- Begin, Menachem (1913-1992) -- Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922) -- Benedict, St (c. 480-c. 547) -- Bengal -- Ben-Gurion, David (1886-1973) -- adopted name of David Gruen, -- Benin -- Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832) -- Bering, Vitus Jonassen (1681-1741) -- Berlin -- Brandenburg Gate -- Brandenburg Gate -- Berlin -- Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church -- Berlin -- Berlin blockade -- Berlin Wall -- Berlin Wall -- Berlin Wall -- Berlin Wall -- Berlin Wall memorial -- Bessemer process -- Bevan, Aneurin (Nye) (1897-1960) -- Bevin, Ernest (1881-1951) -- Biafra, Republic of -- Bible -- (Greek ta biblia 'the books') -- Bible -- Bikini Atoll -- Biko, Steve (1946-1977) -- born Bantu Stephen Biko, -- Bill of Rights -- Bill of Rights -- Billy the Kid (1859-1881) -- born William H Bonney, -- binary weapon -- biological warfare -- Bismarck, Otto Eduard Leopold von (1815-1898) -- Black Death -- black nationalism -- Black National State -- Black Power -- Black Prince -- Blackshirts -- Blair, Tony (1953- ) -- born Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, -- Blair -- Bligh, William (1754-1817).

Blitzkrieg -- (German 'lightning war') -- Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von (1742-1819) -- Blunt, Anthony Frederick (1907-1983) -- Boadicea -- Boeotia -- Boer -- Boer War -- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (AD 480-524) -- Bohemia -- Bokassa, Jean-Bédel (1921-1996) -- Boleyn, Anne (c. 1507-1536) -- Boleyn -- Bolingbroke -- Bolingbroke, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751) -- Bolívar, Simón (1783-1830) -- Bolshevik -- (from Russian bolshinstvo 'a majority') -- bomb -- Bonaparte -- Bonney, William H -- Bonnie Prince Charlie -- Boone, Daniel (1734-1820) -- Booth, William (1829-1912) -- Booth -- bootlegging -- Borgia, Cesare (c. 1475-1507) -- Borgia, Lucrezia (1480-1519) -- Boris Godunov -- Bornu -- borstal -- Boston Tea Party -- Boston Tea Party -- Bosworth, Battle of -- Botha, Louis (1862-1919) -- Botha -- Botha, P(ieter) W(illem) (1916- ) -- Bothwell, James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (c. 1536-1578) -- Boudicca (died AD 61) -- Boyne, Battle of the -- Bradley, Omar Nelson (1893-1981) -- Braganza -- Brandt, Willy (1913-1992) -- adopted name of Karl Herbert Frahm, -- Breakspear, Nicholas -- Bretton Woods -- Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich (1906-1982) -- Britain -- Britain, ancient -- Britain, Battle of -- British East India Company -- British Honduras -- British Somaliland -- Bronze Age -- Brown, John (1800-1859) -- Brownshirts -- Bruce -- Bruce, Robert -- Brutus, Marcus Junius (c. 85 BC-42 BC) -- Bull, John -- Bunker Hill, Battle of -- Burgundy -- Burke, Edmund (1729-1797) -- Burton, Richard Francis (1821-1890) -- Byrd, Richard Evelyn (1888-1957) -- Byzantine Empire -- Byzantium -- C -- Cabot, Sebastian (1474-1557) -- Caboto, Giovanni (c. 1450-c. 1498) -- English John Cabot, -- Cádiz -- Caesar -- Caesar, Gaius Julius (100-44 BC) -- calendar -- Caligula (AD 12-41) -- born Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, -- caliph.

Calvin (or Cauvin or Chauvin), John (1509-1564) -- Calvin -- Canaan -- canal -- canal -- canal -- Canterbury -- (Old English Cantwarabyrig 'fortress of the men of Kent') -- Canute (or Cnut or Knut) (c. 995-1035) -- also known as Canute the Great, -- capitalism -- Cappadocia -- Cappadocia -- carbon dating -- Carnegie, Andrew (1835-1919) -- Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguérite (1753-1823) -- Carter, Jimmy (1924- ) -- born James Earl Carter, -- Carthage -- Cartier, Jacques (1491-1557) -- Cartwright, Edmund (1743-1823) -- Cassius (c. 85 BC-42 BC) -- born Gaius Cassius Longinus, -- Castile -- castle -- castle -- castle -- Castlereagh, Robert Stewart (1769-1822) -- Viscount Castlereagh, -- Castro (Ruz), Fidel Alejandro (1927- ) -- Catherine (II) the Great (1729-1796) -- Catherine de' Medici (1519-1589) -- Catherine of Aragón (1485-1536) -- Catholic Emancipation -- CAT scan -- or CT scan -- acronym for computerized axial tomography scan, -- cavalier -- Cavour, Camillo Benso di, Count (1810-1861) -- Ceausescu, Nicolae (1918-1989) -- Cecil, Robert (1563-1612) -- 1st Earl of Salisbury, -- Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville (1869-1940) -- Chamberlain, (Joseph) Austen (1863-1937) -- Chamberlain, Joseph (1836-1914) -- Chandragupta Maurya (died c. 297 BC) -- chanson de geste -- (medieval French 'song of (great) deeds') -- Charge of the Light Brigade -- Charlemagne, Charles I the Great (742-814) -- Charlemagne -- Charles -- Charles I (1600-1649) -- Charles I -- Charles II (1630-1685) -- Charles II -- Charles, (Charles Philip Arthur George) (1948- ) -- Charles -- Charles -- Charles I -- Charles (V) the Wise (1337-1380) -- Charles (VI) the Mad (1368-1422) -- also known as Charles the Well-Beloved, -- Charles VII (1403-1461) -- Charles IX (1550-1574) -- Charles X (1757-1836) -- Charles -- Charles (II) the Bald (823-877) -- Charles IV (1316-1378) -- Charles V (1500-1558).

Charles VI (1685-1740).