- Lazica, Colchis
- 274, 275.
- Lazistan
- 427.
- League for the Rights of Man, Africa
- 2555.
- League of Albanian Writers and Artists
- 3202.
- League of Armed Neutrality
- 770, 771, 789.
- League of Augsburg
- 653, 653, 704, 713, 719, 738, 752.
- League of Cambrai
- 597, 607, 611, 613.
- League of Cognac
- 586, 607.
- League of German Students
- 1235.
- League of Heilbronn
- 620.
- League of Nations
- 1698, 1698, 1698, 1699, 1702, 1706, 1708, 1708, 1713, 1714, 1717, 1717, 1719, 1721, 1721, 1722, 1722, 1723, 1724, 1724, 1725, 1784, 1784, 1784, 1784, 1814, 1817, 1817, 1817, 1822, 1824, 1825, 1825, 1825, 1826, 1828, 1830, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1832, 1833, 1849, 1866, 1882, 1912, 1922, 1935, 1953, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1964, 1964, 1965, 1965, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1981, 1987, 1987, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2015, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2032, 2039, 2044, 2048, 2048, 2055, 2055, 2057, 2074, 2087, 2088, 2099, 2105, 2114, 2116, 2134, 2136, 2147, 2149, 2161, 2164, 2176, 2181, 2190, 2225, 2242, 2242, 2245, 2248, 2248, 2248, 2248, 2252, 2254, 2254, 2259, 2261, 2264, 2264, 2267, 2268, 2269, 2270, 2271, 2274, 2276, 2281, 2287, 2298, 2301, 2314, 2316, 2328, 2331, 2335, 2350, 2366, 2371, 2372, 2376, 2379, 2386, 2388, 2399, 2403, 2404, 2405, 2450, 2473, 2474, 2479, 2499, 2500, 2513, 2530, 2531, 2538, 2539, 2540, 2551, 2554, 2558, 2559, 2562, 2576, 2582, 2632, 2636, 2636, 2638, 2638, 2645; Covenant, 1698; Class A Mandates, 1708; and Germany, 1715.
- League of Pavia
- 468.
- League of Sarnen
- 1070.
- League of Schmalkalden
- 615.
- League of Sixteen, Paris
- 599.
- League of the German Princes
- 753, 759.
- League of the Public Weal, France
- 523.
- League of the Rhineland
- 458.
- League of the Russian Nobility
- 1266.
- League of the Three Forest Cantons
- 546.
- League of Veterans, Estonia
- 2106, 2107.
- Leakey, Louis, anthropologist
- 19, 19, 19.
- Leakey, Mary, archaeologist
- 19, 19, 19, 4409.
- Leandro de Viana, Francisco, in the Philippines
- 868.
- Lea River
- 422.
- Lease, Mary Elizabeth, U.S. reformer
- 1605.
- Lebanese Army
- 3845.
- Lebanese Forces
- 3847.
- Lebanese War
- 2679.
- Lebanon
- 107, 800, 800, 801, 802, 805, 805, 806, 808, 812, 1327, 1331, 1331, 1333, 1333, 1335, 1371, 1374, 1706, 2318, 2319, 2378, 2379, 2405, 2636, 2638, 2638, 2639, 2673, 2679, 2679, 2698, 2839, 3769, 3769, 3769, 3769, 3771, 3778, 3778, 3778, 3783, 3786, 3842, 3844, 3845, 3845, 3845, 3846, 3847, 3847, 3847, 3849, 3850, 3850, 3850, 3851, 3853, 3853, 3853, 3853, 3866, 3869; civil war, 1335, 3768; emigration to the Americas, 1335; and Egypt, 1367; WWI, 1751, 2378, 2378; and France, 2371, 2379, 2379, 2380, 2382, 2383, 2384, 2384, 3845; between Wars, 2379, 2379, 2380, 2380; Republic, 2379; makeup, 2379, 2379; WWII, 2381, 2382, 2592, 2612; and U.S., 3403, 3428, 3845, 3853; independence, 3845.
- Lebed, Aleksandr, Russian official
- 3367.
- LeBel, Achille, chemist
- 1152.
- Lebensraum
- 2021.
- Lebesgue, Henri, mathematician
- 1149.
- Le Bon, Gustave, psychologist
- 1144.
- Lebon, Joseph, French leader
- 1005.
- Lebrun, Albert, French president
- 1901.
- Leburnion, battle of
- 501.
- Le Cateau, battle of
- 1789.
- Le Chapelier Law, France
- 1002, 1015.
- Lechfeld, battle of
- 416, 491.
- Lech River
- 416.
- Leclerc, Free French commander
- 2611.
- Lecompton constitution, Kansas
- 1583.
- Lecomte, Claude, French general
- 1188.
- Le Corbusier, Charles Jeanneret
- 1816.
- Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre, French leader
- 1083.
- Lê Duan, Vietnamese leader
- 4261, 4271, 4276.
- Lê dynasty
- 279, 397, 399, 863, 863, 863, 863.
- Lee, Bill Lann, blocked appointee
- 3436.
- Lee, Richard Henry, American leader
- 947.
- Lee, Robert E., Confederate commander
- 1587, 1587, 1587, 1587, 1588, 1588, 1589, 1590; capitulation of, 1590.
- Leeds
- 1159.
- Lee Kuan Yew, Singaporean leader
- 4108, 4117, 4117, 4117, 4117.
- Leeson, Nicholas, British financier
- 2691.
- Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese leader
- 2696, 4173, 4174, 4177, 4184, 4185, 4185.
- Leeuwenhoek, Antony van
- 640.
- Leeward Islands
- 3756.
- Lefebvre, Marcel, Church leader
- 2962.
- Lefevre, Theo, Belgian leader
- 2822, 2822, 2822.
- Legalists
- 68, 140, 147, 147, 153, 153, 154, 156, 156, 382.
- Legality Organization, Albania
- 2143.
- Legazpi, Augustin de, Philippines leader
- 867.
- Legazpi, Miguel de, explorer
- 867, 867.
- Legge Fascistissime, Italian Fascists
- 1948.
- Legion of Honor, France
- 1014, 1194.
- Legislative Assembly, Egypt
- 1374.
- Legislative Assembly, France
- 999, 1003.
- Legislative Council, Burma
- 2448.
- Legislative Council, Canada
- 1623, 1625, 1625, 1628, 1630.
- Legislative Council, Cape Colony
- 1552.
- Legislative Council, New Zealand
- 1502.
- Legislative Council, Newfoundland
- 1633.
- Legitimists, France
- 1081, 1083, 1181, 1189.
- Legitimists, Hungary
- 2030.
- Legnano, battle of
- 456, 469.
- Legnica
- 487, 3096.
- Leguía, Augusto B., Latin American leader
- 1670.
- Le Havre, Belgium
- 1738, 1882.
- Lehmann, Johann, geologist
- 647.
- Lê Hoan, king of Vietnam
- 397.
- Lehto, Reino R., Finnish leader
- 3078.
- Lehwald, Hans von, Prussian general
- 662.
- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von, scientist and philosopher
- 639, 641, 647.
- Leicester, 1st earl of, Robert Sidney, English commander
- 588.
- Leichhardt, Ludwig, German explorer
- 1489.
- Leignitz
- 487.
- Leiningen, Karl von
- 1296.
- Leinster
- 425.
- Leipzig
- 548, 613, 620, 1030, 1976; battles of, 620, 622, 622, 751.
- Leiva, Ponciano, Latin American leader
- 1686.
- Lekhanya, Justin, Lesotho leader
- 4473, 4473, 4473.
- Lelantine War
- 182.
- Lê Loi, Le Thai-tô
- 399, 399, 399.
- Lemaître, George, Belgian astrophysicist
- 1729.
- Lemanic Republic
- 750.
- Le Mans
- 1005, 2877.
- Lemass, Sean, Irish leader
- 2807, 2808.
- Lemberg
- 555, 667, 779, 1739, 1739, 1756, 1792, 1794, 1802, 2113.
- Lemebede, Anton, South African leader
- 4320.
- Le Mistral
- 2844.
- Lemnitzer, Lyman L., U.S. commander
- 2723, 2730.
- Lemnos
- 168, 199, 203, 436, 509, 538.
- Le Moustier, cave in southwest France
- 23.
- Lemus, José María, Salvadoran leader
- 3662.
- Lena
- 1266, 3292.
- Lenczyca, assembly of
- 487.
- lend-lease
- 2593, 2632, 2758, 3266, 3274.
- Lend-Lease Act, U.S.
- 1855, 2210, 2210, 2211, 2589, 2599, 2600, 2602.
- Lenihan, Brian, Irish leader
- 2811.
- Lenin, Nikolai, Vladimir I. Ulianov
- 1144, 1262, 1703, 1708, 1772, 1774, 2064, 2064, 2064, 2065, 2067, 2067, 2068, 2068, 2070, 2463, 2466, 3303.
- Leningrad
- 2596, 3300, 3303; battle of, 2080. See St. Petersburg.
- Lenin Shipyard, Gdansk
- 3109.
- Leninsk
- 3333.
- Lenin's Tomb
- 3267, 3275.
- Lenoir, Étienne, inventor
- 981, 990.
- Lens
- 1738, 1791, 1812.
- Lenthall, William, English parliamentarian
- 673.
- Lenz River
- 620.
- Leo Africanus
- See Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzani, geographer.
- Leo I, Roman emperor in the East
- 269, 269, 269, 269.
- Leo I, the Great
- 401, 401, 402.
- Leo II, Roman emperor in the East
- 269, 269, 406.
- Leo III, the Isaurican
- 408, 431, 431, 431, 432.
- Leo III, pope
- 276, 411, 411.
- Leo IV, Byzantine emperor
- 432.
- Leo IV, pope
- 409.
- Leo V, the Armenian
- 433, 434.
- Leo VI, the Wise
- 435, 436.
- Leo VIII, pope
- 465, 465.
- Leo X, pope
- 535, 535, 586, 609.
- Leo XIII, pope
- 1195, 1219, 1220, 1235, 1517, 1952.
- Leo IX, pope
- 454, 466, 499.
- Leoben
- 1009, 1009.
- Leon
- 419, 419, 419, 419, 420, 420, 420, 420, 420, 476, 478, 479, 480, 525.
- León, Nicaragua
- 896.
- Vinci, Leonardo da, Italian artist
- 536, 537, 597, 607, 643.
- Leonardo of Pisa, mathematician
- 469.
- León de Huánuco
- 898.
- Leone, Giovanni, Italian leader
- 2925, 2938.
- Leoni, Raúl, Venezuelan leader
- 3600, 3601.
- Leonidas I, king of Sparta
- 187, 189.
- Leonine Wall, Rome
- 409.
- Leonora, queen of Portugal
- 528, 528.
- Leonov, Aleksei A., astronaut
- 3279.
- Leontini
- 184, 194, 196, 199, 204.
- Leontius II, Byzantine emperor
- 431, 431.
- Leontius of Preslav, Bulgarian patriarch
- 441.
- Leontopolis
- 94.
- León Valencia, Guillermo, Colombian leader
- 3577.
- Leo of Tripoli, pirate
- 436, 436.
- Leopard, British ship
- 1569.
- Leopardi, Gaicomo, Italian writer
- 735.
- Leopard's Kopje
- 349, 364, 364.
- Leopold, duke of Austria
- 444, 456.
- Leopold, duke of Lorraine
- 656.
- Leopold, prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
- 1201, 1234.
- Leopold, prince of Saxe-Coburg and later king of Belgium
- 1055.
- Leopold I, Habsburg
- 546.
- Leopold I, grand duke of Tuscany (later Leopold II, Holy Roman emperor)
- 744.
- Leopold I, Holy Roman emperor
- 657, 657, 752.
- Leopold I, king of Belgium
- 1045, 1056, 1171, 1171, 1277.
- Leopold II, Holy Roman emperor
- 752, 753, 757, 1002.
- Leopold II, king of Belgium
- 954, 964, 1003, 1112, 1171, 1172, 1316, 1509, 1509, 1539, 1540, 1541, 1541, 1543.
- Leopold III, Habsburg
- 546.
- Leopold III, king of Belgium
- 1882, 1891, 1892, 2585, 2818, 2820, 2820, 2821.
- Leopoldville, Congo
- 4434. See Kinshasa, Congo.
- Leosthenes, Athenian commander
- 192.
- Leo the Deacon, historian
- 438.
- Leotychides II, king of Sparta
- 187, 189.
- Lepage, Octavio
- 3603.
- Lepanto
- 315, 603, 609, 611, 797, 797, 802, 826.
- Lepcis Magna
- 110.
- Lepe, Diego de, explorerw
- 573.
- Le Pen, Jean-Marie
- 2876.
- Lepidus, Marcus Aemilius, Roman consul
- 237, 241, 241, 241, 241, 242.
- Lepini Mountains
- 222.
- Leptis Magna
- 246, 255.
- Le Quesnoy
- 659.
- Lerdo de Tejada, Miguel, Mexican leader
- 1691.
- Lerdo de Tejada, Sebastián, Mexican leader
- 1692, 1692.
- Lerida
- 477, 477.
- Lerma, Francisco Gómez de Sandoval y Rojas, duke of
- 603.
- Lerna
- 170.
- Lerroux, Alejandro, Spanish leader
- 1928, 1929.
- Lesage, Jean, Quebec leader
- 3452.
- Lesbos
- 168, 175, 189, 194, 196, 564, 566.
- Lescot, Elie, Haitian leader
- 3745.
- Leslie, David, English general
- 592.
- Lesotho
- 4438, 4473, 4473, 4473, 4473, 4474; independence, 4473.
- Lesotho Congress for Democracy
- 4474.
- Lesotho Liberation Army, LLA
- 4473.
- Lespinasse, Julie Jeanne Eléonore de, French Enlightenment patroness
- 707.
- Lesseps, Ferdinand de, diplomat and engineer
- 989, 1195, 1370, 1678.
- Les Six, French composers
- 1903.
- Leszek I, the White
- 487.
- Letelier, Orlando, Chilean leader
- 3514, 3519, 3519.
- Le Tellier, Michel, French leader
- 712.
- Le Thanh-tông, king of Vietnam
- 399, 399.
- Leticia, dispute
- 2261, 2264, 2268.
- Letsie David Mohato, king of Lesotho
- 4474.
- Letsie III, king of Lesotho
- 4474, 4474, 4474.
- Lettow-Vorbeck, Paul von, German commander
- 1768, 2565.
- Leucippus, Greek philosopher
- 186.
- Leuenberg, Nicholas, Swiss peasant leader
- 748.
- Leuthen, battle of
- 662.
- Lê Van Duyêt, Vietnamese leader
- 1473.
- Levant
- 36, 36, 42, 42, 43, 473, 473, 520, 538, 611.
- Levant Company, England
- 798.
- Lê Van Trung, founder of Cai Dai
- 2525.
- Levelers, English splinter group
- 589, 668, 668.
- Lever Act, U.S.
- 2188, 2190.
- Leverrier, Urbain, astronomer
- 1040.
- Lévesque, René, Quebec leader
- 2867, 3452.
- Levin, Eve, historian
- 563.
- Levingston, Roberto Marcelo, Argentine leader
- 3489, 3490.
- Levi-Strauss, Claude, anthropologist
- 2701, 2861.
- Levni, Ressam, Ottoman artist
- 807.
- Levski, Vasil, Bulgarian leader
- 1299.
- Lewanika, African leader
- 1547.
- Lewes, battle of
- 445.
- Lewinsky, Monica
- 3438, 3439.
- Lewis, C. S., religious writer
- 1815.
- Lewis, David, Canadian leader
- 864, 3456.
- Lewis, John L., U.S. labor leader
- 2210.
- Lewis, Meriwether, U.S. explorer
- 1568.
- Lewis, Sinclair, writer
- 2191.
- Lewis and Clark expedition
- 1568.
- Lewis Ltd.
- 1851.
- Lewis Ponds Creek
- 1490.
- lex Aebutia
- 239.
- lex Aelia Sentia
- 243.
- lex Calpurnia
- 233.
- lex Canuleia
- 225.
- lex de maiestate imminuta
- 247.
- lex Fufia Caninia
- 243.
- lex Gabinia
- 240.
- lex Hortensia
- 227.
- Lexington, battle of
- 946.
- lex Iulia
- 237.
- lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis
- 243.
- lex Iulia de maritandis ordinibus
- 243.
- lex Manila
- 240.
- lex Papia Poppaea
- 243.
- lex Poetelia
- 227.
- lex Romana Visigothorum
- 260.
- lex Titia
- 241.
- lex Vatinia
- 240.
- lex Villia annalis
- 233.
- lex Voconia
- 229.
- Leyden
- 926.
- Leyden jar
- 1148.
- Leyte
- 867, 2630.
- Lhasa
- 852, 4151.
- L'hôpital, Guillaume de, mathematician
- 642.
- Liang, Chinese empress
- 156, 156, 158.
- Liang dynasty
- 158.
- Liang Hongzhi, Japanese puppet ruler of China
- 2480.
- Liang Qichao, Chinese leader
- 1423, 1426, 2524.
- Liaodong
- 852, 1421, 1421, 1423, 1424, 1457, 1457, 1463.
- Liao dynasty
- 369, 371, 372, 374, 378.
- Liao River
- 160, 377.
- Liaoyang, battle of
- 1262, 1462.
- Liao Zhongkai, Chinese leader
- 2467.
- Liapchev, Andrey, Bulgarian leader
- 2165, 2166.
- Libby, Willard F., American chemist
- 6.
- Liberal Alliance Party, Brazil
- 2271, 2271.
- Liberal Alliance Party, Chile
- 2245.
- Liberal Alliance Party, Nicaragua
- 3684.
- Liberal Constitutional Party, Egypt
- 2354, 2359.
- Liberal Democratic Party, LDP
- 4230.
- Liberal Democratic Party, Great Britain
- 2794.
- Liberal Democratic Party, Japan
- 4230.
- Liberal Democratic Party, Netherlands
- 1897.
- Liberal Democratic Party, Russian Federation
- 3364.
- Liberal Democratic Party, Slovenia
- 3193.
- liberalism
- 1725; 18001914, 999, 1035, 1035, 1035, 1035, 1045, 1081; France, 1059, 1060, 1060, 1179; Spain, 1062, 1062, 1062, 1062, 1653; Portugal, 1065; Italy, 1066, 1091, 1091, 1091, 1092, 1092, 1093; Switzerland, 1070, 1070, 1070, 1070; Central Europe, 1071; Germany, 1071, 1096, 1232, 1232, 1232, 1232, 1232; Austria, 1073, 1242; Scandinavia, 1076, 1076, 1076; Belgium, 1171; Russia, 1257, 1258, 1260, 1262, 1263, 1263; Poland, 1268; democratic, 1702, 1702; parliamentary, 1702.
- Liberal-Labour Party, New Zealand
- 1504.
- Liberal Party, Australia
- 1499, 4295, 4298.
- Liberal Party, Canada
- 1631, 1635, 1637, 1639, 3444, 3461.
- Liberal Party, Great Britain
- 1839, 1839, 1847, 1848, 2794.
- Liberal Party, Honduras
- 3699.
- Liberal Party, Israel
- 3858.
- Liberal Party, Italy
- 1225, 1942, 1944, 1945, 1948.
- Liberal Party, New Zealand
- 1504, 1505, 2551.
- Liberal Party, Romania
- 1314, 1316, 2174, 2178.
- Liberal Party, South Korea
- 4196.
- Liberal Reform Party, Puerto Rico
- 1694.
- Liberal Republicans, U.S.
- 1595.
- Liberals, Austria
- 1243.
- Liberals, Belgium
- 1053, 1056, 1057, 1057, 1171, 1171, 1171, 1171.
- Liberals, Denmark
- 1251.
- Liberals, England
- 965, 1130, 1155, 1157, 1159, 1162, 1162, 1162, 1162, 1162, 1170.
- Liberals, Finland
- 1254.
- Liberals, France
- 1081, 1081.
- Liberals, Germany
- 1235, 1237, 1237, 1237.
- Liberals, Hungary
- 1246, 1246.
- Liberals, Japan
- 1452, 1453.
- Liberals, Ottoman Empire
- 1347.
- Liberals, Prussia
- 1230.
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