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Sir John Eliot
Sir John Eliot 1592-1632, English parliamentary leader. He was a staunch defender of parliamentary liberties. Eliot instituted (1626) the impeachment proceedings against Charles I's favorite, the 1st duke of Buckingham , and joined Sir Edward Coke and others in promoting the Petition of Right ,...
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Second Vatican Council
Second Vatican Council popularly called Vatican II, 1962-65, the 21st ecumenical council (see council, ecumenical ) of the Roman Catholic Church, convened by Pope John XXIII and continued under Paul VI . Its announced purpose was spiritual renewal of the church and reconsideration of the po...
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Disarmament Conference
Disarmament Conference 1932-37, meeting for the discussion of general disarmament. The first systematic efforts to limit armaments on an international scale, in either a quantitative or a qualitative sense, occurred at the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907. Although those efforts were unsuccessf...
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Lorenzo Campeggio
Lorenzo Campeggio , 1472?-1539, Italian churchman and diplomat, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was well known as a jurist before turning to the service of the church (c.1510) upon the death of his wife. He was made bishop in 1512 and cardinal the following year. He was chosen as legate fo...
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Wilmot Proviso
Wilmot Proviso 1846, amendment to a bill put before the U.S. House of Representatives during the Mexican War; it provided an appropriation of $2 million to enable President Polk to negotiate a territorial settlement with Mexico. David Wilmot introduced an amendment to the bill stipulating that no...
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Charles I
Charles I 1600-1649, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1625-49), second son of James I and Anne of Denmark.
Early Life
He became heir to the throne on the death of his older brother Henry in 1612 and was made prince of Wales in 1616. The negotiations for his marriage to the Spanish ...
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contempt
contempt in law, interference with the functioning of a legislature or court. In its narrow and more usual sense, contempt refers to the despising of the authority, justice, or dignity of a court. A contempt of court can be classified as civil or criminal, direct or constructive. Civil and crimin...
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Myanmar
Myanmar or Burma , officially Union of Myanmar, republic (2005 est. pop. 42,909,000), 261,789 sq mi (678,033 sq km), SE Asia. It is bounded on the west by Bangladesh, India, and the Bay of Bengal; on the north and northeast by China; on the east by Laos and Thailand; and on the south by the Anda...
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English civil war
English civil war 1642-48, the conflict between King Charles I of England and a large body of his subjects, generally called the "parliamentarians," that culminated in the defeat and execution of the king and the establishment of a republican commonwealth .
The Nature of the Struggle
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Continental Congress
Continental Congress 1774-89, federal legislature of the Thirteen Colonies and later of the United States in the American Revolution and under the Articles of Confederation (see Confederation, Articles of ).
First Continental Congress
Indignation against England's colonial policy reach...
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