People

1689/90–1775

Dahir al-Umar al-Zaydani emerged from a family of tax farmers in Galilee and consolidated Tiberias, Safed, Nazareth and Acre from the 1730s onward. He fortified Acre, […]

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1775–1847

Daniel O’Connell was an Irish political leader known as the Liberator. He built a mass constitutional movement that achieved Catholic emancipation in 1829 and later campaigned, […]

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1779–1827

Daulat Rao Scindia was the Maratha ruler of Gwalior during the expansion of British power in India. His forces fought the East India Company in the […]

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1863 – 1922

David Lloyd George was a Welsh Liberal politician who served as British prime minister from 1916 to 1922. He directed the final years of the First […]

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1408–1463

David of Trebizond was the last emperor of Trebizond, a Byzantine successor state on the Black Sea. He came to the throne in 1459 after the […]

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Davy Crockett is represented in the linked historical fiction and non-fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and social change and […]

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1466–1536

Erasmus studied and worked across the Low Countries, France, England, Italy, Switzerland and the German lands. His editions, translations, correspondence and satirical works promoted textual scholarship, […]

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died 1800

Dhoondia Wagh was an Indian military adventurer who built a short-lived power base after the fall of Tipu Sultan. He gathered cavalry and supporters across Mysore […]

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Dianna Rogers, also known in later tradition as Tiana or Talihina Rogers, was an Old Settler Cherokee woman who moved west from the Cherokee homelands and […]

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133–193

Didius Julianus was Roman emperor for a brief period in AD 193 after purchasing the imperial title from the Praetorian Guard. His short reign exposed the […]

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