- Ashida Hitoshi, Japanese leader
- 4224, 4224.
- Ashikaga (Muromachi) period, Japan
- 396, 396, 396, 396, 396, 396, 396, 396, 857.
- Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese leader
- 395, 395, 395, 396.
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese leader
- 396, 396.
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu
- 396.
- Ashikaga Yoshitane
- 396.
- Ashikpashazade, historian
- 315.
- Ashkelon
- 103, 103.
- Ashkenazi, Eliezer and Abraham, Jewish printers
- 797.
- Ashley, lord
- See Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, earl of, English leader and Cabal member.
- Ashoka, of Maurya
- 73, 78, 129, 129, 129, 129, 133, 133, 134.
- Ashraf Shah, Afghan leader
- 819.
- Ashtart, king of Tyre
- 109.
- Ashur
- 85, 86, 123.
- Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria
- 87, 87, 87, 95, 105, 114, 122, 123, 127.
- Ashurdan II, king of Assyria
- 87.
- Ashur-etil-ilani, king of Assyria
- 87.
- Ashur-nasir-apli II, king of Assyria
- 87.
- Ashur-uballit I, king of Assyria
- 86, 86, 113.
- Ashur-uballit II, king of Assyria
- 87.
- Ash Wednesday, Australia
- 4309.
- Asia
- 21, 22, 22, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 27, 28, 28, 28, 30, 30, 30, 33, 35, 39, 39, 39, 41, 48, 48, 66, 67, 68, 70, 73, 73, 75, 77, 78, 81, 83, 86, 90, 92, 92, 92, 93, 93, 106, 111, 117, 129, 130, 135, 153, 154, 163, 163, 164, 178, 180, 188, 200, 206, 208, 208, 208, 209, 211, 213, 216, 218, 233, 233, 237, 240, 240, 241, 245, 245, 246, 257, 257, 265, 271, 272, 276, 278, 278, 279, 279, 279, 279, 279, 280, 281, 281, 281, 281, 281, 281, 281, 285, 289, 292, 293, 293, 294, 294, 299, 301, 307, 309, 312, 312, 315, 319, 320, 324, 324, 325, 366, 374, 402, 407, 426, 429, 431, 432, 438, 473, 473, 473, 505, 571, 572, 575, 576, 578, 578, 578, 579, 580, 581, 584, 584, 605, 674, 791, 792, 830, 837, 840, 852, 853, 857, 864, 890, 911, 915, 953, 955, 955, 955, 958, 958, 962, 969, 1099, 1108, 1108, 1108, 1108, 1120, 1126, 1128, 1129, 1258, 1394, 1559, 1703, 1706, 1706, 2493, 2493, 2527, 2529, 2535, 2632, 2636, 2637, 2637, 2641, 2641, 2641, 2643, 2643, 2644, 2690, 2857, 3443, 3907, 4117, 4183, 4185, 4250, 4295; Roman province, 215, 235, 235, 237, 240; and Africa, 888, 1558; WWII, 2521, 2625, 2625; and postwar colonialism, 2700; economy, 2757; and U.S., 3396; and Latin America, 3628.
- Asiago, taken by Austrians
- 1757, 1804.
- Asia Minor
- 81, 111, 112, 113, 113, 114, 114, 114, 115, 124, 124, 124, 168, 169, 170, 172, 172, 174, 175, 177, 177, 177, 187, 189, 189, 190, 193, 199, 199, 199, 203, 203, 205, 209, 209, 209, 209, 209, 209, 213, 213, 213, 213, 213, 214, 214, 214, 218, 228, 241, 246, 250, 257, 258, 258, 262, 269, 272, 275, 275, 299, 439, 505, 505, 505, 505, 565, 1108, 1108, 1114, 2321.
- Asian Americans
- 1580, 1598, 1598, 2187, 3427, 3436.
- Asian Development Bank
- 4275.
- Asian Games
- 4168, 4277, 4279.
- Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC
- 4047, 4047, 4114, 4118.
- Asiatic Registration Bill, Transvaal
- 1558.
- Asiatic Society
- 1394.
- Asir
- 1361, 1364, 2408, 2408, 2412, 2415.
- Aske, Robert, English religious rebel
- 587.
- Askiya Muhammad I, ruler of Songhay
- 356, 356.
- Asmara, Eritrea
- 4394, 4396.
- Aspar, Flavius, Roman general
- 269.
- Aspasia, consort of Pericles
- 186.
- Aspdin, Joseph, patentee of Portland cement
- 983.
- Aspelta, king of Egypt
- 99.
- Aspendus
- 200.
- Aspern and Essling, battle of
- 1026.
- Aspromonte, battle of
- 1214.
- Aspropotamos
- 1277.
- Asquith, earl, Herbert Henry, English leader
- 1155, 1839, 1839, 1842.
- Assab
- 1219.
- Assam
- 130, 1395, 1402, 1402, 2679, 3976, 3977.
- Assassins
- See Nizaris (Assassins).
- Assaye
- 1394.
- Assemani, Joseph
- See Yusuf al-Sim‘ani, Lebanese librarian at the Vatican.
- Assembly, Canada
- 1623, 1625, 1625.
- Assembly, New York
- 942.
- Assembly, Prussia
- 1097, 1097, 1097.
- assembly line
- 986.
- Assembly of Delegates, Egypt
- 1369, 1372.
- Assembly of First Nations
- 3453.
- Assembly of Jewish Notables, France
- 1020.
- Assembly of Notables, France
- 1000.
- Assicurazioni Generali SpA
- 2950.
- assimilation
- 305.
- Assin
- 873.
- Assiniboine Indians
- 1626.
- Assin Nyankumasi, battle of
- 1516.
- Assisi, Italy
- 537, 2682.
- Assizes of Jerusalem
- 505, 507.
- Assizes of Romania
- 507.
- Associated States of the United Kingdom
- 3759.
- Associated Territories of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla
- 3759.
- association football
- See sports.
- Association for the Advancement of Women, Ottoman Empire
- 1348.
- Association for the Defense of Rights of Eastern Anatolia
- 2321.
- Association of Journalists of the Polish People's Republic
- 3104.
- Association of Polish Journalists
- 3104.
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN
- 2683, 4047, 4047, 4047, 4070, 4088, 4092, 4101, 4103, 4118, 4281, 4291; nuclear free pact, 4047.
- Association of Ulama
- 2423.
- Associations Law
- 1927.
- Association Tribales
- 4449.
- Assoumani, Azzaly, Comoros leader
- 2696, 4411, 4416, 4416.
- Assumption Bill, U.S.
- 1565.
- Assuwa
- 111.
- Assyria
- 67, 70, 74, 84, 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 86, 86, 86, 86, 86, 87, 87, 87, 87, 87, 87, 87, 87, 87, 88, 88, 94, 95, 95, 99, 102, 102, 103, 104, 105, 105, 105, 105, 105, 106, 106, 106, 109, 109, 112, 113, 114, 114, 118, 118, 122, 123, 123, 123, 127, 171, 253.
- Assyrian Empire
- 70.
- Assyrian Rebellion, Nestorian Christians
- 2405.
- Astana
- 3337. See Akmola.
- Astartrom, king of Tyre
- 109.
- Asti
- 472, 612.
- Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne
- 1839.
- Astrakhan
- 629.
- astrolabe
- 443.
- astronomy
- 131, 156, 305, 637, 637, 638, 638, 638, 639, 639, 640, 641, 1038, 1038, 1038, 1038, 1038, 1040, 1040, 1040, 1147, 1147, 1148, 1148, 1150, 1729, 1729, 1729, 1729, 1730, 1730; in China, 854.
- Asturias
- 420, 420, 1928, 1930.
- Asturias, Miguel A., writer
- 3465.
- Astyages, king of Media
- 114, 119, 123, 123, 124.
- Asunción
- 900, 900, 900, 900, 910, 913, 1645, 1665, 1665, 1665, 1665, 3475.
- Asuristan
- 271.
- Asvaghosha, Sanskrit author
- 130.
- Aswan
- 38, 346.
- Aswan Dam
- 96, 1373, 2655, 2663, 3278, 3908, 3909.
- Asyut
- 1373.
- Asyut University, Egypt
- 3909.
- Atabegs
- 505.
- Atacama
- 2255.
- Atahualpa, Inca ruler
- 570, 898, 898, 898, 898.
- Atahualpa, Juan Santos, Inca rebel
- 913.
- Atatürk, Kemal, Turkish leader
- See Kemal Atatürk, Turkish leader.
- Ataturk Dam
- 3782.
- Ataulf, Visigoth leader
- 403, 403.
- Atbara River
- 43, 1123.
- Athabasca River
- 1623.
- Athaliah, queen of Judah
- 104, 105.
- Athanasius, bishop
- 401.
- Atharvaveda
- 129.
- Athaulf, Visigoth leader
- 265.
- Athenaeus, bishop
- 268.
- Athenagoras, early Christian
- 259.
- Athenagoras I, patriarch
- 2956, 2958.
- Athenian League
- 200, 201, 202, 204.
- Athens
- 115, 124, 124, 171, 171, 173, 175, 175, 176, 178, 179, 179, 180, 180, 180, 180, 180, 180, 180, 180, 180, 181, 182, 183, 186, 186, 186, 186, 187, 187, 187, 187, 187, 187, 187, 187, 188, 188, 188, 188, 189, 189, 189, 189, 189, 189, 190, 190, 190, 190, 191, 191, 191, 191, 191, 191, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 193, 193, 193, 193, 193, 193, 193, 193, 193, 194, 194, 194, 194, 195, 195, 196, 196, 196, 196, 196, 196, 196, 196, 196, 196, 197, 197, 197, 197, 197, 197, 197, 198, 198, 198, 198, 198, 198, 198, 198, 198, 199, 199, 199, 199, 199, 200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 201, 201, 201, 202, 202, 202, 202, 203, 203, 203, 203, 203, 203, 204, 204, 204, 204, 204, 204, 204, 204, 205, 205, 205, 206, 206, 207, 207, 207, 208, 209, 209, 209, 209, 210, 210, 218, 233, 253, 268, 274, 313, 427, 505, 508, 526, 534, 564, 565, 804, 959, 1099, 1324, 1758, 1758, 1759, 1829, 2154, 2159, 2591, 3207, 3207, 3213, 3221, 3228, 3229.
- Athens Polytechnic
- 3221.
- athletics
- See sports.
- Athlone, earl of, Alexander Cambridge, Canadian leader
- 3443.
- Atkins, Robert, British leader
- 2798.
- Atlanta
- 3407, 3421, 3436; in the Civil War, 1589, 1589.
- Atlanta Compromise speech
- 1608.
- Atlantic Charter
- 1699, 2210, 2210, 2560, 2632, 2632, 4320.
- Atlantic Community
- 2717.
- Atlantic Conference
- 1699.
- Atlantic Monthly, U.S. periodical
- 1600.
- Atlantic Ocean
- 110, 245, 281, 281, 281, 282, 284, 289, 358, 359, 532, 570, 574, 579, 579, 581, 644, 713, 822, 824, 825, 869, 873, 875, 875, 877, 906, 940, 956, 961, 990, 991, 1131, 1135, 1509, 1577, 1598, 1634, 1795, 1809, 2600, 2602, 2606, 2606, 2679, 3448, 3458.
- Atlantic Pact
- 3393.
- Atlas Mountains
- 823, 1375, 1375, 1379.
- Atlee, Clement R., British leader
- 2758, 2758, 2763, 2764, 2768.
- atom
- 1150, 1150, 1151.
- Atomic Age
- 2641.
- atomic bomb
- 2216, 2523, 2765.
- atomic energy
- 1731, 2769.
- Atomic Energy Commission, U.S.
- 2641, 3394, 3398.
- Atomic Energy Community
- 2726.
- atomic weight
- 1042, 1151, 1152.
- Atreus
- 171, 172.
- Atsiz, Turkoman leader
- 318, 318.
- Atsutane, Hirata, scholar
- 1437.
- Attalus, last non-Christian emperor of Rome
- 265.
- Attalus I Soter, king of Pergamum
- 211, 211, 213, 213, 213, 214.
- Attalus II Philadelphus, king of Pergamum
- 215, 235.
- Attalus III Philometor, king of Pergamum
- 215.
- Attarissyas the Ahhiyawan
- 172.
- Attica
- 168, 173, 175, 179, 180, 180, 183, 186, 186, 187, 187, 189, 189, 192, 193, 196, 196, 198, 200, 210, 502, 508.
- Attila the Hun
- 75, 266, 266, 401, 402, 402.
- Attis
- 112.
- Attlee, Clement R., British leader
- 2634, 4195.
- Attu
- 2627.
- Atusparia, Pedro Pablo, Latin American leader
- 1670.
- Aubame, Jean-Hilaire, Gabon leader
- 4340.
- Aubert, Thomas, French fisherman
- 920.
- Aubuisson de Voisins, Jean d', scientist
- 1041.
- Auckland
- 1501, 1503, 4316, 4317.
- Auckland, earl of, George Eden, governor-general of India
- 1395, 1395.
- Auden, W. H., poet
- 1815.
- Aue, Hartmann von, poet
- 459.
- Auersperg, Adolf
- 1242.
- Auerstadt, battle of
- 1024.
- Auffenberg-Komarow, Moritz von, Austrian commander
- 1792.
- Augsburg
- 416, 466, 549, 613, 897.
- Augusta, Georgia
- 3419.
- Augustan Legion
- 253.
- August Convention, France and Russia
- 1117.
- Augustine, St., bishop of Hippo Regius
- 266, 268, 401, 401, 404, 408, 411.
- Augustine of Canterbury, missionary
- 408, 421.
- Augustinians, religious order
- 584, 613, 851; in the Philippines, 867; in the Americas, 910.
- Augusto Leguía, Peruvian leader
- 2259, 2260.
- Augustovo Forest, battle of
- 1794.
- Augustulus
- See Romulus Augustus, last Roman emperor of the West.
- Augustus, Roman emperor
- 133, 216, 239, 239, 239, 239, 241, 243, 243, 243, 243, 243, 243, 243, 243, 243, 244, 244, 244, 246, 246, 247, 247, 247, 255, 255, 408; as title, 254, 257, 257, 258, 261, 261, 261, 261, 262, 264, 264, 264, 265, 266.
- Augustus II, elector of Saxony and king of Poland
- 660, 660, 660, 752, 776, 780, 780, 780.
- Augustus III, elector of Saxony
- 660.
- Augustus III, king of Poland
- 660, 776, 781.
- Augustus of Saxony
- 780.
- Au Lac kingdom, Vietnam
- 397.
- Aulic Council
- 613.
- Aulick, John H., U.S. naval commander
- 1438.
- Aumale, Mlle. d', wife of Afonso VI and Peter II of Portugal
- 727.
- Aum Shinrikyo, religious sect
- 4248.
- Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese leader
- 2687, 4059, 4059, 4061, 4063.
- Aurangzib, Mughal emperor
- 575, 832, 833, 833, 833, 833, 833, 833, 833, 834, 834, 834, 834, 834.
- Aurelian, Roman emperor
- 258.
- Aureolus, pretender to the Roman throne
- 257.
- Auric, Georges, composer
- 1903.
- Auriol, Vincent, French leader
- 2838, 2841, 2846.
- Aurora, countess of Königsmark
- 660.
- Auschwitz, German concentration camp
- 1917, 3026.
- Ausculum
- 227.
- Ausgleich
- See Austro-Hungarian Compromise.
- Ausonius, Decimus Magnus, Latin poet
- 260.
- Aussee, Austria
- 443.
- Austen, Jane, writer
- 1046.
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