- demographics, demography
- See population.
- Demosthenes, Athenian leader
- 186, 196, 197, 204, 204, 204, 204, 204, 204, 204, 207, 207, 207.
- de Murville, Couve, French leader
- 2727, 2859.
- Den, king of Egypt
- 91.
- Denain, battle of
- 659.
- Denby, Edwin, U.S. leader
- 2194.
- dendrochronology
- 5.
- Deng, Chinese empress
- 156.
- Deng Tuo, Chinese leader
- 4156.
- Deng Xiaoping, Chinese leader
- 2465, 2471, 4156, 4161, 4161, 4161, 4162, 4163, 4164, 4166, 4167, 4175.
- Denham, Dixon, explorer
- 1507.
- Denikin, Anton, Russian counterrevolutionary
- 1784, 2067, 2067, 2067.
- Denis, king, African leader
- 1538.
- Denkta
 , Rauf, Cypriot leader
- 3810, 3810, 3810, 3812.
- Denkyira
- 873.
- Denmark
- 279, 402, 422, 422, 444, 454, 456, 460, 461, 461, 461, 464, 464, 469, 548, 548, 550, 551, 552, 552, 553, 553, 554, 554, 554, 554, 554, 617, 618, 618, 622, 622, 623, 627, 627, 627, 627, 627, 627, 627, 627, 632, 648, 653, 659, 675, 703, 704, 761, 761, 762, 763, 764, 764, 765, 768, 768, 768, 768, 768, 768, 768, 768, 769, 769, 769, 769, 770, 770, 770, 770, 771, 771, 771, 772, 773, 774, 774, 774, 775, 775, 789, 990, 997, 997, 1026, 1031, 1036, 1075, 1075, 1075, 1075, 1077, 1077, 1077, 1077, 1077, 1077, 1077, 1077, 1077, 1078, 1096, 1097, 1100, 1100, 1100, 1100, 1100, 1116, 1132, 1247, 1247, 1251, 1251, 1251, 1251, 1251, 1251, 1252, 1252, 1278, 1506, 1817, 1837, 1992, 2036, 2036, 2038, 2038, 2038, 2039, 2039, 2040, 2041, 2041, 2041, 2041, 2043, 2060, 2060, 2060, 2060, 2311, 2708, 2721, 2728, 2733, 2735, 2749, 2750, 2754, 3041, 3041, 3043, 3046, 3047, 3049, 3050, 3050, 3050, 3051, 3051, 3051, 3051, 3052, 3052, 3053, 3056, 3062, 3069, 3084, 3088; and Africa, 874, 878; and Prussia, 1233; slave trade, 1513; Great Depression, 2041; occupation by Germany, 2041; liberation of, 2042; and U.S., 2311; WWII, 2584, 2608, 2621; European currency, 3053.
- Dennewitz, battle of
- 1030.
- Dentz, Henri, Vichy leader
- 2382.
- Denver
- 3400, 3417.
- Department of Defense, U.S.
- 3393.
- Department of Labor, U.S.
- 1620.
- Department of Native Affairs, South Africa
- 4470.
- Department of Transportation, U.S.
- 3413.
- department stores
- 1632.
- depressions
- 961, 1046; France, 1061; 19th century, 1142; Great Britain, 1155, 1161; Great Depression, 1161, 1700, 1700, 1702, 1703, 1704, 1706, 1708, 1718, 1719, 1719, 1814, 1814, 1814, 1817, 1829, 1846, 1895, 1909, 1925, 1952, 1983, 1984, 2003, 2027, 2027, 2036, 2041, 2049, 2049, 2092, 2106, 2120, 2132, 2151, 2165, 2181, 2187, 2197, 2201, 2201, 2201, 2201, 2217, 2227, 2227, 2242, 2246, 2252, 2260, 2262, 2267, 2271, 2302, 2311, 2312, 2317, 2413, 2435, 2445, 2448, 2453, 2455, 2470, 2509, 2509, 2525, 2537, 2545, 2551, 2551, 2554, 2561, 2567, 2569, 2578, 2581, 2640, 3427; Belgium, 1172; Germany, 1231; 1873, 1595; 1893, 1606.
- Depretis, Agostino, Italian leader
- 1219, 1219.
- de Quay, Jan Eduard, Dutch leader
- 2830, 2830, 2830.
- Derby, earl of, Edward Stanley, English leader
- 1047, 1107, 1155, 1157, 1159.
- Derby, earl of, Frederick Stanley, governor-general of Canada
- 1635.
- Dercyllidas, Spartan commander
- 199, 199.
- Dergue, Ethiopia
- 4395, 4395.
- Dermond (Dermot) MacMorrough, Irish ruler
- 425, 425.
- Dernwentwater, 3rd earl, James Radcliffe, Jacobite leader
- 684.
- Derrida, Jacques, scholar
- 2701, 2861.
- Desai, Morarji, Indian leader
- 3974, 3976.
- Descartes, René, French philosopher
- 639, 639, 640.
- Deschanel, Paul, French president
- 1901, 1902, 1902.
- Desert Fathers, early Christian monks
- 401.
- Desert Land Act, U.S.
- 1597.
- Desert Mobile Force
- 2398, 2398.
- Deshima, islet
- 860, 861, 1440.
- Desiderius, Lombard king
- 408, 410.
- Desmichels Treaty
- 1382.
- Desmond, earl of, James Fitzgerald, Irish insurgent
- 589.
- Desmoulins, Camille, French leader
- 1001, 1007.
- de Soto, Hernando, Spanish explorer
- 905.
- Despensers, Hugh le and Hugh, rule of
- 512.
- Des Près, Josquin, Dutch composer
- 596.
- des Roches, Peter, guardian of Henry III
- 445, 445.
- Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, Haitian leader
- 1696, 1696, 1696.
- Destour Party, Tunisia
- 1706, 2426.
- De Tham, insurgent
- 1475, 2524.
- Dethronement Act, Hungary
- 2025.
- Detroit
- 922, 1623, 1623, 2214, 2214, 3427, 3434.
- Deuteronomy
- 105, 105.
- Deutsche Bank
- 1347, 3026.
- Devagiri
- 327, 332, 332, 332.
- De Valera, Eamon, Irish leader
- 1859, 1860, 1863, 1863, 1863, 1864, 1864, 1866, 1869, 1870, 1872, 1872, 1873, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1881, 2805, 2807, 2807, 2807.
- Devanampiya Tissa
- 134.
- Devapala, ruler of India
- 324.
- Devaquet, Alain, French leader
- 2874.
- Devaux, Paul, Belgian leader
- 1056.
- Development Office, Japan
- 1442.
- Devereux, Robert
- See Essex, Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of, leader of parliamentary army.
- Devereux, Walter, assassin of Wallenstein
- 620.
- Devil's Island, French Guiana
- 1195.
- Devlin, Bernadette, Irish leader
- 2781, 2782, 2785.
- Devonshire, duke of, Victor Cavendish, governor-gerneral
- 2218.
- de Vries, Hugo, botanist
- 1153.
- Dewar, James, chemist
- 984.
- De Wet, General, South African commander
- 2574.
- Dewey, George, U.S. admiral
- 1609.
- Dewey, John, educator
- 1144, 2464.
- Dewey, Thomas E., U.S. leader
- 3392.
- De Witt, John, Dutch leader
- 675, 703, 704.
- De Witt brothers
- 650.
- Dezong, Chinese emperor
- 1418.
- Dhafur
- 3897.
- Dhaka
- 3990.
- Dhaka University, Bangladesh
- 4024.
- Dhammayut, brotherhood of monks
- 1405.
- Dhanga, ruler of India
- 325, 325.
- Dharmapala, ruler of India
- 324.
- Dharma Sabha, Indian society
- 1394.
- d'Hiver, Vélodrome
- 1917.
- Dhofar
- 126.
- Dhruva, ruler of India
- 327, 327.
- Dhul-Nunids of Toledo
- 475.
- Diablo Dam
- 3702.
- Diagne, Blaise, Senegalese leader
- 2554, 2555.
- Diakite, Yoro, Malian leader
- 4361.
- Diamantina
- 1489.
- diamonds
- 1506, 1553, 1553, 1553, 1553, 1555, 1556.
- Dias, Bartolomeu, explorer
- 281, 365.
- Dias, Dinís, explorer
- 281.
- Dias, Juan Tomas, Dominican leader
- 3736.
- Dias, Paulo, trader in Africa
- 885.
- Diaspora
- 208, 253.
- Díaz, Adolfo, Nicaraguan leader
- 1684, 1684, 2283, 2283, 2284, 2284, 2285.
- Diaz, Armando, Italian commander
- 1757, 1778.
- Díaz, Porfirio, Mexican leader
- 1692, 1692, 1692, 2290, 2290, 2290, 2290, 2290, 2290, 2294.
- Diaz, Rodrigo (Ruy)
- See Cid, el, Spanish hero.
- Díaz Betancourt, Eduardo, Cuban executee
- 3724.
- Díaz de Solís, Juan, explorer
- 573.
- Díaz Ordaz, Gustavo, Mexican leader
- 3702.
- Díaz Serrano, Jorge, Mexican leader
- 3705.
- Dib, Muhammad, writer
- 3933.
- Dibra, taken by Bulgarians
- 1797.
- Dicaea
- 182.
- Dickens, Charles, writer
- 1146.
- Dickerson v. United States, U.S. Supreme Court decision
- 3441.
- Dickson, J. T., developer of terylene (dacron)
- 984.
- Diderot, Denis, encyclopedist
- 645, 716, 1000.
- Didius Julian, Roman emperor
- 255.
- Dido, founder of Carthage
- 109, 110.
- Deibold, John, engineer
- 2703.
- Diefenbaker, John, Canadian leader
- 3446, 3447, 3447, 3447, 3448, 3449, 3449.
- Diego Suarez, Madagascar
- 2627.
- Dien Bien Phu
- 2636, 2653, 2847, 4093, 4256, 4256.
- Diesel, Rudolf, inventor of oil engine
- 982.
- Diet, Austria
- 1089, 1089.
- Diet, Finland
- 1254, 1254.
- Diet, Frankfurt
- 1102.
- Diet, Germany
- 459, 1071, 1071, 1071, 1072, 1072.
- Diet, Hungary
- 1074, 1074, 1074, 1087, 1087.
- Diet, Japan
- 1453, 1454, 1455, 1456, 1456, 4224, 4246.
- Diet, Poland
- 781, 782.
- Diet, Switzerland
- 1070, 1094, 1094.
- Diet of 1435
- 554.
- Diet of Augsburg
- 614.
- Diet of Besançon
- 456.
- Diet of Frankfurt
- 541.
- Diet of Köln
- 613.
- Diet of Mainz
- 458, 531.
- Diet of Pressburg, Pozsony
- 757.
- Diet of Regensburg
- 456, 485.
- Diet of Speyer
- 614.
- Diet of Stans
- 547.
- Diet of the Confederation
- 1096.
- Diet of Tribur
- 454.
- Diet of Worms
- 613, 613.
- differential equations
- 1040.
- Digambara
- 129, 133.
- Diggers, or True Levellers
- 668, 668.
- Digger's Republic, South Africa
- 1553.
- Digges, Dudley
- 590.
- Dijon
- 710, 1178, 2619.
- Dila’iyya, Sufi order
- 823, 823.
- Diliman commune, Philippines
- 4292.
- Dillingham Commission, U.S.
- 1616.
- Dillon, Douglas C., U.S. leader
- 2640, 4183.
- Dimitrov, Alexander, Bulgarian leader
- 2162.
- Dimitrov, Filip, Bulgarian leader
- 3242.
- Dimitrov, Georgi, Bulgarian leader
- 3234.
- Dindings, the
- 1411.
- Dingane, African leader
- 1551, 1551, 1551.
- Ding family, China
- 1425.
- Dingiswayo, African leader
- 1506, 1549, 1550.
- Ding Ling, writer
- 2478, 2483.
- Dinh Bô Ling, king of Vietnam
- 397.
- Dini, Lamberto, Italian leader
- 2949, 2949.
- Diniz, the Worker
- 528.
- Dinizulu, African leader
- 1556, 1556.
- Dinkas
- 4392, 4407.
- Dinnyes, Lajos, Hungarian leader
- 3142, 3142, 3143.
- Dinouart, French writer
- 716.
- Dinshaway Incident, Egypt
- 1374.
- Dinuzulu kaCethshwayo, African leader
- 1558.
- Dinwiddie, Robert, governor of Virginia
- 939.
- Diocletian, Roman emperor
- 255, 257, 258, 260, 260, 260, 260, 261, 261, 261, 261, 261, 261, 261, 261, 261, 261, 261, 261, 261, 261, 262, 268, 272.
- Diodotus I, king of Bactria
- 213, 217.
- Diodotus II, king of Bactria
- 217.
- Diogenes, Greek philosopher
- 186.
- Diogenes, Constantine, Byzantine general
- 498, 501.
- Diomedes, Alexander, Greek leader
- 3209.
- Dion, regent of Syracuse
- 202, 202, 203, 203.
- Dionysius I, tyrant of Syracuse
- 110, 198, 199, 199, 200, 200, 202, 203.
- Dionysius II, tyrant of Syracuse
- 202, 202, 204.
- Diop, Alioune, publisher
- 4322.
- Diori, Hamani, Niger leader
- 4365, 4365.
- Diouf, Abdou, Senegalese leader
- 4378, 4378, 4378, 4378, 4379, 4380.
- Diphilus, Greek playwright
- 208.
- Di Pietro, Antonio, Italian jurist
- 2946.
- Dipo Negora, Javanese leader
- 1412.
- Dirac, Paul A., British physicist
- 1729.
- Direct Action Committee
- 4001.
- Directoire
- See Directory, France.
- Directorial Terror, France
- 1009.
- Directory, France
- 999, 1009, 1009, 1009, 1009, 1012, 1014, 1020, 1020, 1565.
- “dirty tricks”
- 3423.
- Disability Insurance Act
- 1895.
- Disability Pension Act, U.S.
- 1604.
- disarmament
- 1719, 2726; Geneva conferences, 1698, 1715, 1716, 1721, 1722, 1722, 1723; Germany, 1724, 1830, 1832, 1987, 1989; Denmark, 2040. See United Nations.
- discrimination
- 443; Ireland, 448, 448, 519; U.S., 1595, 1598, 1604, 1604, 1611, 1615; Cuba, 1693.
- disease
- 597, 601, 638, 668, 774, 812, 1152, 1153, 1153, 1153, 2643; in New World, 61, 908; bubonic plague, 196, 196, 254, 257, 282, 299, 306, 320, 400, 406, 427, 432, 511, 519, 557, 558, 583, 589, 601, 603, 609, 614, 644, 675, 693, 712, 715, 748, 762, 791, 833, 1159, 1328, 1385, 2264, 4142; smallpox, 297, 583, 693, 774, 878, 885, 890, 891, 897, 908, 927, 1068, 1527, 1626, 2641, 2641, 2677; measles, 297; Europe, 400, 1195; England, 513; France, 521, 1059, 1061, 1179; Switzerland, 546, 748; Russia, 558; 1500–1800, 581, 583; after Thirty Years' War, 644; Ireland, 693, 700; Africa, 869, 878, 885, 1506, 1515, 1524, 1527, 1527, 1531; Latin America, 894, 908, 1678; North America, 920; New England, 933; Great Britain, 1047, 1050, 1155, 1155, 1155, 1159; Italy, 1068, 1069, 1093; Germany, 1071, 1237; 1800–1914, 1081, 1143; Crimean War, 1155, 1180; South African War, 1162; Ottoman Empire, 1328; Algeria, 1383; North Africa, 1385; U.S., 1594; Canada, 1626; influenza, 1814, 2433, 2530, 2558, 2576; East Africa, 2565; rinderpest epidemic, 2565; sleeping sickness, 2569; Black Death, 2641; malaria, 2641, 2642; poliomyelitis, 2641, 2653, 3399, 3402; tuberculosis (TB), 2641; control, 2641; flu viruses, 2641; AIDS, 2678, 2690, 2691, 2692, 2697, 2698, 2704, 3390, 3427, 3456, 4320, 4320, 4410, 4457, 4458, 4458, 4465, 4472, 4489; bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease), 2754, 2756, 2802, 2885; cholera, 3560, 4421; Ebola virus, 4450.
- DISK, Turkish radical party
- 3789.
- Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st earl of Beaconsfield
- 1105, 1106, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109, 1155, 1159, 1162, 1162, 1397.
- Dissanayake, Gamini, Sri Lankan leader
- 4038.
- dissenters
- See nonconformists.
- dissidents, Poland
- 632, 633.
- District of Columbia
- 1580, 1587, 1619.
- Diu
- 830, 831, 3963.
- Dius, Phoenician historian
- 108.
- Divine Comedy, by Dante
- 534.
- divine right, doctrine of
- 91, 934.
- Dix, Dorothea, U.S. social worker
- 1586.
- Dixmude
- 1738.
- Diyarbakr
- 307, 792, 812, 812.
- Djagatai, Mongol ruler
- 281, 281.
- Djem, Ottoman sultan
- See Jem, Ottoman sultan.
- Djer, king of Egypt
- 91.
- Djet, king of Egypt
- 91.
- Djibouti
- 2563, 4392, 4393, 4393, 4393, 4403; independence, 4393.
- Djilas, Milovan, Yugoslavian leader
- 3168.
- Djoser, king of Egypt
- 91.
- Djudar Pasha, Moroccan commander
- 870.
- Djukanovic, Milo, Montenegrin leader
- 3180.
- Dlugosz, Johannes, historian
- 555.
- Dmitri, pretender to the Russian throne
- 630, 630, 630.
- Dmitri Donskoi, grand prince of Moscow
- 558, 558.
- Dmowski, Roman, Polish leader
- 2110, 2112, 2113.
- DNA
- 24, 1731, 2703.
- Dnepropetrovsk
- 3382.
- Dnestr republic
- 3359, 3359.
- Dnieper River
- 26, 488, 488, 557, 632, 667, 804, 808, 2593, 2596, 2596.
- Dniester River
- 482, 789, 793, 805, 809, 1794.
- Doab
- 332.
- Dobi, István, Hungarian leader
- 3143, 3146, 3146.
- Dobrudja, also Dobruja
- 311, 1108, 1108, 1139, 1318, 1742, 1743, 1743, 1777, 1806, 2170, 2171, 2185, 2635, 3235, 3238.
- Dodecanese Islands
- 979, 1136, 1137, 1225, 1348, 1746, 1749, 1788, 1817, 2144, 2635, 2926, 3208.
- Dodik, Milorad, Bosnian leader
- 3189.
- Doe, Samuel K., Liberian leader
- 4355, 4355, 4356, 4357, 4357.
- Doenitz, Karl, German commander
- 2621, 2622.
- Dogali, battle of
- 1220.
- D
 gen, Buddhist leader
- 395.
- Dogger Bank, North Sea
- 1128, 1796.
- Doheny, Edward L., U.S. businessman
- 2194.
- Doherty, John, British labor leader
- 1047, 1048.
- Doiran, battle of
- 1806, 1808.
- Doi Takako, Japanese leader
- 4246.
- Doktor Djawa School
- 1414, 1414.
- Dky, monk
- 385, 385.
- Dole, Sanford B., president of Hawaii
- 1478.
- Dolgoruki, Russian family
- 786.
- dollar diplomacy
- 1617.
- Dollfuss, Engelbert, Austrian leader
- 2006, 2007, 2007, 2008, 2008, 2008, 2008, 2008, 2011.
- Dolly, cloned sheep
- 2693.
- Dolmabahche Palace, Istanbul
- 1334.
- Dolores, Mexico
- 1653.
- Domagaya, Canadian chief
- 920.
- Domagk, Gerhard, chemist
- 1154.
- Dombas, Norway
- 2584.
- Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
- 290.
- Domesday Book
- 443, 444.
- Domestic Violence Act, Great Britain
- 2788.
- Dominic, St.
- 469, 469.
- Dominica, West Indies
- 572, 3756, 3759, 3762.
- Dominican National Guard
- 2314.
- Dominican Republic
- 1614, 1695, 2313, 2314, 2638, 3469, 3471, 3599, 3689, 3735, 3735, 3735, 3740, 3742, 3744, 3746; and U.S., 2313, 2313, 2314, 3735, 3735, 3736, 3736, 3737, 3738, 3739, 3740, 3740, 3741, 3741, 3742, 3742, 3742; between Wars, 2314, 2314; and Haiti, 2314, 2316; WWII, 2314; and illegal drugs, 3743.
- Dominican Revolutionary Party, PRD
- 3741, 3742.
- Dominicans, religious order
- 445, 451, 452, 459, 469, 530, 532, 815, 854, 3741; Vietnam, 863; Philippines, 867; Africa, 875, 889, 1548; Americas, 910.
- Dominion Companies Act, Canada
- 2230.
- Dominion Iron and Steel Corporation, DISCO
- 1639.
- Dominion of New England
- 934.
- Dominion Trade and Industry Commission, Canada
- 2231.
- Domitian, Roman emperor
- 246, 252, 252, 252, 252, 252, 252, 252, 252, 253, 259.
- Domitianus, Lucius Domitius, rival emperor in Egypt
- 261.
- Domodossola
- 546.
- Dom Pedro
- See Pedro I, emperor of Brazil.
- Domrémy
- 522.
- Domus Aurea, Rome
- 249.
- Doña Marina, Malitzin, or Malinche
- 901.
- Donatello, sculptor
- 536.
- Donation of Constantine
- 469, 532.
- Donation of Pepin
- 408, 408, 410, 432.
- Donatists, Christian sect
- 268.
- Donauwörth
- 616.
- Donbass
- 3297, 3315, 3383.
- Don Carlos, brother of Ferdinand VII of Spain
- 1062.
- Don Carlos, pretender to Spanish throne
- 1203, 1204.
- Don Carlos of Austria, son of Philip II of Spain
- 602.
- Don Cossacks, revolt of
- 784, 2064, 2066, 2067.
- Donets River
- 2075.
- Donetsk
- 3383.
- Dongliao
- 2466.
- Dongola
- 98, 967, 1121.
- Dong Qichang, Chinese artist
- 851.
- Dông-son, Vietnamese culture
- 51, 397, 397.
- Dong Zhongshu, Chinese emperor
- 154, 156.
- Dong Zhuo, Chinese general
- 156.
- Don Juan, claimant to Spanish throne
- 2887, 2889, 2891, 2892.
- Don Juan of Austria
- 718, 719, 719, 719, 797.
- Donnacona, Canadian guide
- 920.
- Donne, John, English poet
- 594.
- Donoso Cortés, Juan, Spanish leader
- 1143.
- Don Pacifico affair, Greece
- 1099, 1278.
- Don Republic
- 2066.
- Don River
- 26, 439, 2595, 2596.
- Doolittle, James H., U.S. commander
- 2627.
- Doorn Kop, battle of
- 1895.
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