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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: HEBRIDES
 Hebrides - ceded to Scottish king in 1266
- and Bonnie Prince Charlie
 - brief account
Hecateus - Greek geographer
Hector - in the Iliad
 Hedingham Castle
Hedley, William - Puffing Billy
Hegel, Georg - and Hegelian dialectic
Hegira - in the Muslim calendar
Heian - new Japanese capital in AD 794
Heimskringla - of Snorri Sturluson
Helen - in the Trojan War
Helena, St - builds church in Bethlehem
- and the True Cross
Heligoland - ceded to Germany in 1890
Helios - as the colossus of Rhodes
- on lighthouse at Alexandria
helium - the first nuclei and atoms
Hellenistic Age - from 323 BC
Hellfire Club
Helluland - and Leif Ericsson
Helmholtz, Hermann von - invents ophthalmoscope
Helmont, Jan Baptista van
Heloïse - and Abelard
helots - in Sparta
- revolt of 464 BC
- serfs rather than slaves
Helpmann, Robert
Help the Aged (charity)
Helsinki - founded by Gustavus I
Helston (Cornwall)
Helvetic republic - set up in 1798
Helvetii - Celtic tribe
- and Switzerland
Hemans, Mrs
Heminge, John - and the First Folio
hemlock - execution in Athens
Hemming - Danish king
Henderson, Arthur - and Labour party
Hengist and Horsa
Henley-on-Thames
Henriques, Afonso - first king of Portugal
Henriade - by Voltaire
Henrietta Maria - wife of Charles I
- and van Dyck
Henry - bishop of Uppsala
Henry I - founder of the Ottonian dynasty
Henry I - king of England
- invades Ireland in 1171
- brief biography
- plants vineyard at Rockingham
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