- Waals, Johannes van der, physicist
- 1148.
- Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railroad v. Illinois, U.S. Supreme Court decision
- 1596.
- Wace, poet
- 444.
- Wachock, Kraków
- 443.
- Wadai
- 871.
- Wadd
- 126.
- Waddington, William Henry, French envoy
- 1108.
- Wade, Abdoulaye, Senegalese leader
- 4328, 4381.
- Wadelai
- 1525.
- Wadi al-Makhazin
- 823.
- Wadi Dhana
- 128.
- Wadi Hadramaut
- 128.
- Wadi Hammamat
- 89, 90, 92.
- Wadsworth, William, Connecticut colonist
- 934.
- Waes
- 653.
- Wafd, Egypt
- 1706, 2351, 2352, 2353, 2354, 2354, 2355, 2355, 2356, 2358, 2359, 2360, 2361, 2361, 2364, 2366, 2366, 2367, 2367, 2368, 2368, 2368, 2369, 3903, 3904.
- Wafdist Women's Central Committee
- 2353.
- Wages and Hours Law, U.S.
- 2207.
- Wagner, Richard, composer
- 1235.
- Wagner-Connery Labor Relations Act, U.S.
- 2203.
- Wagner Labor Relations Act, U.S.
- 2206.
- Wagner-Steagall Act, U.S.
- 2206.
- Wagram, battle of
- 1026.
- Wahhabis
- 320, 791, 810, 820, 820, 820, 821, 821, 1358, 1358, 1358, 1358, 1358, 1364, 1366, 2413.
- Wahid, Abdurrahman, Gus Durj
- 4138, 4139, 4139, 4139.
- Waiblingers
- 455, 456, 456, 457. See Hohenstaufen dynasty.
- Waikato
- 1502, 1503.
- Wairau, massacre of
- 1502.
- Waitangi, treaty of
- 1476, 1501, 1502, 1503, 4316, 4317.
- Waitangi Tribunal, New Zealand
- 4317.
- Waitara
- 1502, 1502.
- Wajed, Hasina
- 4023.
- Wakatsuki Reijir, Japanese leader
- 2506, 2507, 2511, 2511.
- Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, colonial leader
- 1489.
- Wake Island
- 2626, 3394.
- Walata
- 357.
- Wald, Lillian D., U.S. reformer
- 1603.
- Waldeck-Rousseau, René, French leader
- 1195, 1196.
- Waldemar, king of Sweden
- 463, 463, 463.
- Waldemar, prince of Denmark
- 1302.
- Waldemar I, the Great
- 461, 486.
- Waldemar II, the Conqueror
- 456, 461, 489.
- Waldemar IV, king of Denmark
- 548, 548, 551, 551, 551, 551, 551, 552.
- Waldensians
- 450, 544, 738.
- Waldheim, Kurt, Austrian leader
- 3037.
- Waldmann, Hans, Swiss leader
- 547.
- Waldo, Peter, religious leader
- 450.
- Waldseemüller, Martin, geographer
- 573.
- Wales
- 248, 251, 421, 422, 425, 444, 444, 446, 512, 590, 785, 1042, 1043, 1046, 1049, 1155, 1157, 1159, 1165, 2644, 2754, 2775, 2777, 2802, 2802.
- Walesa, Lech, Polish leader
- 2679, 3100, 3104, 3105, 3105, 3109, 3110, 3111, 3112, 3112, 3112, 3113, 3113, 3113, 3115, 3116, 3116, 3117.
- Wali Allah al-Dihlawi, shah and religious reformer
- 580.
- Walker, David, U.S. black leader
- 1575.
- Walker, William, Latin American leader
- 1680, 1683, 1683, 1683, 1683, 1683, 1685, 1686.
- Wallace, Alfred R., naturalist
- 1151.
- Wallace, George C., U.S. leader
- 3411, 3411, 3416.
- Wallace, Henry A., U.S. leader
- 2209, 2485, 3390.
- Wallace-Johnson, I. T. A., activist
- 2559.
- Wallachia
- 311, 312, 313, 439, 441, 560, 563, 798, 806, 806, 807, 808, 809, 810, 811, 1272, 1311, 1311, 1313, 1313, 1334, 1335, 1806; revolution in, 1311; and Ottoman Empire, 1333.
- Wallenius, Kurt, Finnish leader
- 2056, 2056.
- Wallenstein, Albert (Albrecht) von, Danish commander
- 618, 618, 619, 619, 619, 619, 620, 620, 620, 620, 620, 620.
- Wallia, Visigoth leader
- 265, 403, 403.
- Wallis, John, mathematician
- 639.
- Wallis, Samuel, English navigator
- 865.
- Wall of Antoninus
- 255.
- Wallon, Henri A., French leader
- 1191, 1191.
- Wallonia
- 1056, 2644, 2822, 2823. See Belgium.
- Walloon Guards
- 720.
- Walloons, Belgium
- 1882, 1887, 2822. See Belgium.
- Walo, papal legate
- 486.
- Walpole, Hugh Seymour
- 1839.
- Walpole, Robert
- 686, 686.
- Walsh, Thomas J., U.S. leader
- 2194.
- Walsingham, Francis
- 588.
- Walsingham, Thomas, chronicler
- 513.
- Walter, Hubert, archbishop of Canterbury
- 444.
- Walter of Brienne, duke of Athens
- 534.
- Walter the Penniless, Crusader
- 505.
- Waltham
- 1572.
- Walton, Izaak, English writer
- 594.
- Walvis Bay
- 1554.
- Wampanoags
- 933.
- Wan, prince, Thai leader
- 2718.
- Wanbaoshan
- 2472.
- Wang Anshi, Chinese leader
- 371, 371, 372, 373, 398.
- Wangara
- 355.
- Wangarawa
- 355.
- Wang Bi, Chinese scholar
- 158.
- Wang Ching-wei, Chinese leader
- 2624.
- Wang Chong, Chinese philosopher
- 156.
- Wang dynasty
- 155.
- Wang Fuzhi, Chinese scholar
- 854.
- Wang Guowei, scholar
- 2478.
- Wang Hsüan-tse, ambassador
- 324.
- Wang Jingwei, Chinese leader
- 2465, 2469, 2482, 2520.
- Wang Juntao, dissident
- 4169.
- Wang Kemin, Japanese puppet ruler of China
- 2480.
- Wang Kn, T'aejo
- 379, 379, 379, 379.
- Wang Mang, Chinese emperor
- 155, 155, 156, 160, 397.
- Wang Ming, Chen Shaoyu
- 2481.
- Wang Mingsheng, Chinese scholar
- 854.
- Wang Wei, poet
- 370, 370.
- Wangxia, treaty of
- 1416.
- Wang Xianqian, Chinese scholar
- 1425.
- Wang Xizhi, Chinese calligrapher
- 158.
- Wangyan Aguda, Jurchen leader
- 372.
- Yangming, Wang, Chinese philosopher
- 580, 851, 856.
- Wang Yinglin, encyclopedist
- 373.
- Wanke, Daouda Malam, Niger leader
- 4365.
- Wanli dynasty
- 851.
- Wannsee Conference
- 1993.
- Wa people
- 161, 161, 161, 377, 1404.
- Warangal
- 332, 332, 333, 333, 337, 337.
- Warbeck, Percy, Flemish imposter to the British throne
- 585.
- War Chariot invasions
- 67.
- War Committee, later Dardanelles Commitee
- 1839.
- Ward, Frederick Townsend, American adventurer
- 1417.
- Ward, Joseph, New Zealand leader
- 2551.
- War Finance Commission, U.S.
- 2189.
- Wargala
- 292.
- War Hawks, U.S.
- 1571.
- War Industries Board, U.S.
- 2187, 2188.
- War Industry Committee, Russia
- 2062.
- War Labor Board, U.S.
- 2212.
- War Measures Act, Canada
- 3455, 3455.
- Warm Springs
- 2216.
- Warner, Seth, American commander
- 946.
- Warner, Susan, writer
- 1582.
- Warnier Law, France
- 1383.
- War of 1812
- 1563, 1572, 1623, 1623, 1624.
- War of American Independence
- See American Revolution.
- War of Attrition
- 3773.
- War of Berenice
- 213.
- War of Chioggia, Venice and Genoa
- 538.
- War of Demetrius
- 210.
- War of Devolution
- 649, 712, 718, 752.
- War of Independence
- See American Revolution.
- War of Jenkins' Ear
- 660, 687, 939.
- War of Kalmar
- 627.
- War of the Austrian Succession
- 578, 660, 687, 724, 739, 745, 758, 787, 834, 939, 941.
- War of the Bavarian Succession
- 667, 759.
- War of the Cabanos
- 1677.
- War of the Catholic Cantons, Switzerland
- 625.
- War of the Emboabas
- 916.
- War of the Farrapos
- 1677.
- War of the First Coalition
- 1003, 1009, 1009.
- War of the League of Augsburg
- 653, 704, 713, 752, 939.
- War of the Mantuan Succession
- 612.
- War of the Mascates
- 916.
- War of the Oranges
- 731.
- War of the Pacific, in Latin America
- 1663, 1668, 1669, 1670.
- War of the Polish Succession
- 660, 723, 745, 780, 787.
- War of the Reform, Mexico
- 1691.
- War of the Second Coalition
- 790, 1011.
- War of the Seven Reductions
- 906.
- War of the Spanish Succession
- 575, 578, 657, 682, 704, 714, 720, 728, 738, 740, 753, 906, 939.
- War of the Third Coalition
- 726, 1023, 1256.
- War of the Thousand Days, civil war in Colombia
- 1673.
- War of the Three Henrys
- 599.
- War of the Triple Alliance
- 1677.
- War on Poverty
- 3410.
- War Production Board, U.S.
- 2212, 2212.
- Warren, William R., Newfoundland leader
- 2235, 2235.
- Warren Commission, U.S.
- 3410.
- War Revenue Act, U.S.
- 2188.
- Warri
- 875, 878.
- Warring States period, Japan
- 396.
- Warsaw
- 667, 776, 777, 777, 782, 782, 1025, 1029, 1268, 1268, 1739, 1792, 1794, 1817, 1821, 1838, 2110, 2113, 2124, 2126, 2126, 2180, 2582, 2621, 2709, 2731, 2757, 2996, 3005, 3006, 3095, 3096, 3103, 3104, 3106, 3119, 3128, 4150, 4159; duchy of, 1026, 1032, 1267, 1267; battle of, 1739, 1792; Ghetto, 3116.
- Warsaw, University of
- 1267, 1267.
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- 2125.
- Warsaw Pact
- 2687, 2716, 2717, 2719, 2725, 2727, 2728, 2729, 2729, 2729, 2730, 2731, 2731, 2734, 2736, 2741, 2745, 2748, 2748, 2749, 2752, 3016, 3101, 3102, 3111, 3131, 3147, 3151, 3152, 3156, 3202, 3238, 3250, 3250, 3276, 3281, 3282, 3300; renunciation of Brezhnev Doctrine, 2747; dissolution, 2749; end, 3303.
- Warsaw Society of the Friends of Science
- 1267.
- Warsaw Treaty Organization
- 3113.
- Wars of Liberation
- 1030.
- Wars of Succession
- 213, 218.
- Wars of the Diadochi
- 209.
- Wars of the Roses
- 515, 515, 516, 548.
- Wars with Rome
- 273, 273, 273, 274, 274, 274, 275.
- Wartburg Festival, Germany
- 1071, 1073.
- Warthe River
- 486.
- Wartime Elections Act, Canada
- 2219.
- Warwick, earl of, Edward Plantagenet
- 585.
- Warwick, earl of, Richard Neville
- 515, 515.
- Warwick, 2nd earl, Robert Rich, English colonizer
- 928.
- Washington, U.S. state
- 33, 1603, 1607, 1741, 1762, 1781, 2187, 2222, 2224, 2226, 2231, 2238, 2240, 2240, 2274, 2276, 2316, 2485, 2600, 3432.
- Washington, Booker T., U.S. black leader
- 1608.
- Washington, D.C.
- 33, 1418, 1566, 1586, 1587, 1594, 1603, 1607, 1741, 1762, 1781, 2187, 2222, 2224, 2226, 2231, 2238, 2240, 2240, 2274, 2276, 2316, 2485, 2534, 2534, 2549, 2600, 2624, 2625, 2632, 2632, 2649, 2670, 2671, 2683, 2697, 2708, 2710, 2715, 2731, 2766, 2768, 2770, 2844, 2995, 3250, 3396, 3404, 3411, 3415, 3418, 3419, 3430, 3432, 3434, 3448, 3514, 3715, 3784, 3785, 3844, 3862, 3864, 3865, 3869, 3875, 3967, 3998, 4183, 4223, 4233, 4241, 4261; in War of 1812, 1572; convention of 1861, 1584; Pan-American conferences, 1603; Washington conferences, 1698, 1710, 2192, 2501, 2502; treaty of, 1719; March on, 3390, 3408; peace march, 3414; Poor People's March, 3415; march for gay rights, 3430.
- Washington, George, U.S. president
- 939, 940, 952, 1564, 1565, 1565, 1565, 1565, 1565; in the American Revolution, 946, 947, 948, 948, 948, 948, 948, 949, 949, 950, 951.
- Washoe Mountains
- 1594.
- Washukanni, Mitanni capital
- 86, 93, 113.
- Wasil ibn Ata, religious scholar
- 290.
- Wasit
- 292.
- Wasmosy, Juan Carlos, Paraguayan leader
- 3525, 3525, 3525, 3526.
- Wasp, U.S. ship
- 1572.
- Wassaw people
- 876.
- Watanabe Kazan, scholar
- 1438.
- Watauga settlement, eastern Tennessee
- 941.
- Watchmakers' Association
- 1963.
- Watchtower (Kitawala) movement, Nyasaland
- 1548, 2568, 2572.
- Waterford
- 425, 426, 1864.
- Watergate
- 3423.
- Waterloo, battle of
- 1033.
- Water-Power Act, U.S.
- 2191.
- Water Quality Act, U.S.
- 3411.
- Watertown
- 926, 1608.
- water turbine
- 981.
- Watson, Charles, British officer
- 835.
- Watson, James D., geneticist
- 2703.
- Watson, John C., Australian leader
- 1497, 1497.
- Watson-Watt, Robert A., radar researcher
- 1736.
- Watt, James, inventor
- 647, 981, 1034.
- Wattasid dynasty
- 323, 323, 822, 822, 822, 822, 822, 823.
- Watts, Los Angeles
- 3411.
- Wattwil
- 749.
- Wauchope, Arthur
- 2390.
- Wave Hill, Australia
- 4303.
- Wavell, 1st earl, Archibald, British commander
- 2447, 2612.
- Wazed, Hasina
- 4025.
- Wazzani Berbers
- 1375.
- Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith
- 689.
- Wealth-Tax Act, U.S.
- 2205.
- Wearmouth
- 421.
- Weathermen, underground movement
- 3420.
- Weaver, James B., U.S. leader
- 1605, 1605.
- Webb-Kenyon Act, U.S.
- 2203.
- Webb-Pomerene Act, U.S.
- 2189.
- Weber, Max, economist-sociologist
- 613, 1143, 1144, 1237.
- Webster, Daniel, U.S. leader
- 1575, 1580.
- Webster, Noah, U.S. lexicographer
- 1569.
- Webster, Ronald, Anguillan leader
- 3761.
- Webster-Ashburton Treaty
- 1576.
- Wedel, Betho von
- 1746.
- Wedemeyer, Albert, U.S. leader
- 2485.
- Wedgewood, Josiah, English potter
- 647.
- Wedmore, peace of
- 422.
- Wegener, Alfred, geologist
- 1731.
- Wehnelt, Artur, pioneer in cathodes
- 1736.
- Wehrmacht
- 2596.
- Wei dynasty
- 139, 140, 146, 153, 156, 156, 157, 157, 160, 160.
- Weierstrass, Karl, mathematician
- 1147.
- Weihaiwei, British leasehold in China
- 969, 1420, 1423, 2465, 2471.
- Wei Jingsheng, Chinese leader
- 4162, 4171.
- Weilopolski, Alexander
- 1268.
- Weimar
- 1973, 1973.
- Weimar Constitution
- 2987.
- Wei River
- 138.
- Weismann, August, biologist
- 1153.
- Weitling, Wilhelm, utopian socialist
- 1035.
- Weizmann, Chaim, Israeli leader
- 3858, 3866.
- Weizmann Institute of Science
- 2391.
- Weizsäcker, Carl von, astrophysicist
- 1730.
- Weizsäcker, Richard von, German leader
- 2751, 3008.
- Welfare Party, Turkey
- 3799, 3803.
- welfare state
- 2700, 2700.
- Welfs
- 455, 456, 456, 456, 457, 457, 457, 458, 459, 468.
- Welland Canal
- 1625.
- Welle River
- 1509, 1509, 1544.
- Welles, Sumner, U.S. diplomat
- 2288.
- Wellesley College
- 2469.
- Wellington, New Zealand
- 1501, 1503, 4284.
- Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, duke of
- 1027, 1028, 1028, 1029, 1029, 1031, 1032, 1033, 1046, 1489; mission to St. Petersburg, 1275.
- Wells, Clyde, Canadian leader
- 3456.
- Wells, H. G., writer
- 1839.
- Welsbach gas mantle, devised by C. A. Welsbach
- 981.
- Welsers, family of German bankers
- 897, 897, 897.
- Welwitsch, Friedrich, botanist
- 1539.
- Wen, Chinese king
- 138, 138.
- Wenceslaus, St., Vaclav
- 483.
- Wenceslas (Vaclav) I, king of Bohemia
- 484, 484, 487.
- Wenceslas (Vaclav) II, king of Bohemia
- 485, 485, 540.
- Wenceslas (Vaclav) III, king of Bohemia and Hungary
- 485, 485, 544, 560.
- Wenceslas (Vaclav) IV, king of Bohemia and Holy Roman emperor
- 537, 541, 544.
- Wenceslas Square, Prague
- 3133.
- Wenden, battle of
- 629.
- Wendi, Chinese emperor
- 154, 159, 377.
- Wends
- 411, 415, 416, 416, 456, 461, 461, 483, 548.
- Wentworth, William C., Australian leader
- 1488, 1488, 1488, 1490, 1495.
- Wen Yiduo, poet
- 4141.
- Wenzong, Chinese emperor
- 1417.
- Wereloe, treaty of
- 764.
- Wergeland, Henrik, Norwegian leader
- 1247.
- Werner, Abraham, scientist
- 1041.
- Werner, Pierre, leader of Luxembourg
- 2836, 2836, 2836.
- Werth, Johann von, German general
- 621, 622.
- Wertheimer, Max, psychologist
- 1145.
- Wesel
- 652.
- Weser River
- 415.
- Weshwesh
- 93.
- Wesley, John, religious reformer
- 687.
- Wesleyans
- 1476; in Africa, 878, 1514, 1550.
- Wessex
- 421, 422, 422, 422, 422, 422.
- Wessin y Wessin, Elias, Dominican leader
- 3739, 3739.
- West, U.S.
- 1268, 1571, 1574, 1574, 1575, 1576, 1576, 1581, 1587, 1593, 1598, 1598, 1612, 1780, 4101; 1500–1800, 575, 579; 1800–1914, 953, 953, 957, 961, 961, 961, 961, 961; U.S., 983.
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