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Bretislaus I, Duke of BohemiaPersonBretislaus I was Duke of Bohemia from 1035 to 1055.
BretonsPeople / groupThe Bretons are a Celtic people of Brittany in north-western France.- Bretton Woods systemInstitutionThe Bretton Woods system was the international monetary order agreed at the Bretton Woods Conference in New Hampshire in July 1944.
BrexitEventBrexit was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, decided by a referendum on 23 June 2016 in which 51.9 per cent voted to leave.
Brian BoruPersonBrian Boru was King of Munster from the Dál Cais dynasty and High King of Ireland from 1002.- Brian MacPhelim O'NeillPersonSir Brian MacPhelim O'Neill was lord of Lower Clandeboye in Ulster in the mid-16th century.
- Brian O'Connor FalyPersonBrian O'Connor Faly was the last independent lord of Uí Failge, in the Irish midlands, in the 16th century.
- Brian O'RourkePersonSir Brian O'Rourke was lord of West Breifne in Connacht, in present-day County Leitrim.
- BriançonnaisPlaceThe Briançonnais is the mountain district around Briançon in the French Alps, in the upper Durance valley close to the Italian border.
- BRICSInstitutionBRICS is an intergovernmental grouping of major emerging economies named after its first members, Brazil, Russia, India and China, which held their first summit in…
Bridei son of BeliPersonBridei son of Beli was King of Fortriu and overking of the Picts from about 671.
Bridei son of MaelchonPersonBridei son of Maelchon was a powerful king of the Picts in the second half of the 6th century.
BridgetownPlaceBridgetown is the capital and main port of Barbados, on Carlisle Bay on the island's south-west coast.- Bridgetown InitiativeReligion / ideaThe Bridgetown Initiative is a set of proposals for reforming international development and climate finance, launched in 2022 by Mia Mottley, the prime minister of…
Bridgewater CanalWork / monumentThe Bridgewater Canal is a canal in north-west England, built for the Duke of Bridgewater to carry coal from his mines at Worsley to Manchester.
BridgnorthPlaceBridgnorth is a market town on the River Severn in Shropshire, England. Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, built a burh, or fortified town, there in 912 against the…
BriellePlaceBrielle is a small fortified town in South Holland near the mouth of the Maas, known in English as Brill.
Brig, SwitzerlandPlaceBrig is a town in the Upper Valais, Switzerland, on the Rhône at the foot of the Simplon Pass, now part of the municipality of Brig-Glis.- BrigadeTermA brigade is a military formation made up of several battalions or regiments, smaller than a division.
- Brigandage ActWork / monumentThe Brigandage Act was a law passed by the Philippine Commission, the American colonial legislature of the Philippines, in November 1902 (Act No. 518).
- BrigantiaReligion / ideaBrigantia was a Celtic goddess worshipped in northern Britain in the Roman period, known from inscriptions and a relief found at Birrens in Scotland.
Briggs PlanEventThe Briggs Plan was the British strategy against the communist insurgency in Malaya devised in 1950 by Lieutenant-General Sir Harold Briggs, the director of operations…
Brigham YoungPersonBrigham Young was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, leading it from 1844.- Brigid (goddess)Religion / ideaBrigid is a goddess of early Irish mythology, a daughter of the Dagda associated with poetry, healing and smithcraft.
Brihadaranyaka UpanishadWork / monumentThe Brihadaranyaka Upanishad is one of the oldest and longest Upanishads, part of the Shatapatha Brahmana of the White Yajurveda, usually dated to around the 7th…- Brihadishvara TempleWork / monumentThe Brihadishvara Temple at Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu, India, is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva, built by the Chola king Rajaraja I and completed in 1010.
Brihadratha MauryaPersonBrihadratha Maurya was the last emperor of the Maurya dynasty of India, ruling a much-reduced realm from Pataliputra in the early 2nd century BCE.- Brihaspati SmritiWork / monumentThe Brihaspati Smriti is a Sanskrit legal text of the Dharmashastra tradition, attributed to the sage Brihaspati.
BrihatkathaWork / monumentThe Brihatkatha, 'Great Story', was a vast collection of tales attributed to the poet Gunadhya and written in Paishachi Prakrit, traditionally at a Satavahana court.- BrimsPersonBrims was a leader of Coweta, the principal town of the Lower Muscogee, called 'Emperor' by English colonists.
Brimstone Hill FortressWork / monumentBrimstone Hill Fortress is a British fortress on a steep volcanic hill on the west coast of Saint Kitts, built mainly between 1690 and 1790 by enslaved African labourers.
BrindisiPlaceBrindisi is a port city on the Adriatic coast of Apulia in south-eastern Italy.
BrinnoPersonBrinno was a chieftain of the Cananefates, a Germanic people of the western Rhine delta.
BrisbanePlaceBrisbane is the capital of Queensland, Australia, on the Brisbane River near Moreton Bay.
BristolPlaceBristol is a city and port in south-west England on the River Avon, near its mouth on the Severn estuary.- BritainPlaceBritain, or Great Britain, is an island off northwestern Europe comprising England, Scotland and Wales, united as a single kingdom from 1707.
Britannia InferiorPlaceBritannia Inferior was the northern of the two provinces into which Roman Britain was divided in the early third century, governed from Eboracum (York) and including…- Britannia PrimaPlaceBritannia Prima was one of the provinces created in Roman Britain by the reforms of Diocletian around 300.
- Britannia SecundaPlaceBritannia Secunda was one of the provinces created in Roman Britain by the reforms of Diocletian around 300.
Britannia SuperiorPlaceBritannia Superior was the southern of the two provinces into which Roman Britain was divided in the early third century, governed from Londinium (London) and including…
British ColumbiaPlaceBritish Columbia is the westernmost province of Canada, between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific.
British Commonwealth Air Training PlanInstitutionThe British Commonwealth Air Training Plan was a Second World War programme for training aircrew from Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other Allied…- British conquest of KanoBattle · 1903The British conquest of Kano took place in February 1903, when forces of the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria under Frederick Lugard captured the city after a brief…
British EmpireStateThe British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates and other territories ruled or administered by Britain from the late sixteenth to the twentieth…- British GarhwalPlaceBritish Garhwal was the eastern part of the Garhwal region in the Himalaya of present-day Uttarakhand, India, annexed by the East India Company after the Anglo-Nepalese…
British IndiaPlaceBritish India refers to the territories of the Indian subcontinent ruled directly by Britain, first through the East India Company and from 1858 by the crown.
British IslesPlaceThe British Isles are the group of islands off north-western Europe made up of Great Britain, Ireland and many smaller islands, including the Hebrides, Orkney and…
British KaffrariaStateBritish Kaffraria was a British territory between the Keiskamma and Kei rivers in present-day Eastern Cape, South Africa, annexed by Governor Sir Harry Smith in 1847…
British MuseumPlaceThe British Museum is a public museum in London founded in 1753, holding one of the world's largest collections of human history and culture.
British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act 1948Work / monumentThe British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act 1948 created a separate New Zealand citizenship for the first time, taking effect on 1 January 1949.
British North Borneo CompanyInstitutionThe British North Borneo Company was a chartered company that governed North Borneo, modern Sabah, from 1881 to 1946 under a British royal charter.
British Overseas TerritoriesTermThe British Overseas Territories are the fourteen territories under British sovereignty that are not part of the United Kingdom, mostly small islands left from the…
British RajInstitutionThe British Raj was the system of direct British crown rule over the Indian subcontinent from 1858 to 1947, after the East India Company's rule ended following the…
British South Africa CompanyInstitutionThe British South Africa Company was a chartered company founded by Cecil Rhodes in 1889 to acquire and exploit territory in south-central Africa.
Britons (Celtic people)People / groupThe Britons were the Celtic-speaking inhabitants of Great Britain from the Iron Age through the Roman period and the early Middle Ages.
Brive-la-GaillardePlaceBrive-la-Gaillarde is a town on the River Corrèze in the Limousin, central France.
BriviescaPlaceBriviesca is a town in the province of Burgos, in northern Spain, on the road from Burgos to Miranda de Ebro.
BrixenPlaceBrixen, in Italian Bressanone, is a town in South Tyrol, northern Italy, where the Rienz joins the Eisack.
BrnoPlaceBrno is the second-largest city of the Czech Republic and the historic capital of Moravia.
Broad Front (Uruguay)People / groupThe Broad Front, or Frente Amplio, is a left-wing coalition of parties in Uruguay founded in 1971.
BrocéliandePlaceBrocéliande is a legendary forest of Arthurian romance, first placed in Brittany by the poet Wace in the twelfth century.
BrochTermA broch is a type of Iron Age drystone tower found in northern and western Scotland, especially in Caithness, Orkney and Shetland.
BrockenPlaceThe Brocken is the highest mountain of the Harz range in Saxony-Anhalt, rising to 1,141 metres.
Brontë sistersPeople / groupThe Brontë sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848) and Anne (1820–1849), were English novelists and poets who grew up at Haworth in Yorkshire.
BronzeTermBronze is an alloy of copper and tin, and the term is also used loosely for related copper alloys such as brass.
Bronze AgeReligion / ideaThe Bronze Age is the period in which bronze was the dominant material for tools and weapons, in the Near East and eastern Mediterranean lasting from about the late…
Bronze castingTermBronze casting is the technique of shaping objects by pouring molten copper alloy into moulds, often using the lost-wax method.- Bronze of AscoliWork / monumentThe Bronze of Ascoli is a Latin inscription on a bronze tablet recording that in 89 BCE the Roman general Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo granted Roman citizenship to a squadron…
- Bronze-workingTermBronze-working is the craft of producing tools, weapons and ornaments from bronze, an alloy of copper and tin.
BroraPlaceBrora is a village on the east coast of Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands, at the mouth of the River Brora.
Brotherhood of BlackheadsPeople / groupThe Brotherhood of Blackheads was an association of unmarried merchants, ship-owners and foreign traders in the towns of Livonia, first recorded in Reval (Tallinn)…
Brothers GrimmPeople / groupThe Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were German scholars born in Hanau who collected folk tales and founded the study of German language and…
Brough, East Riding of YorkshirePlaceBrough is a town on the north bank of the Humber estuary in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.- BroughamPlaceBrougham is a village near Penrith in Cumbria, England, at the crossing of the River Eamont.
Brown v. Board of EducationEventBrown v. Board of Education was a unanimous ruling of the United States Supreme Court on 17 May 1954 that state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools…- BrskovoPlaceBrskovo was a medieval mining town in the north of present-day Montenegro, near Mojkovac.
BruchsalPlaceBruchsal is a town in the Karlsruhe district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, north-east of Karlsruhe.
BrugesPlaceBruges is a city in West Flanders, Belgium, linked to the North Sea by canals.
BruggPlaceBrugg is a small town in the Swiss canton of Aargau, at a crossing of the Aare close to its confluence with the Reuss and the Limmat.- Brühl (Rhineland)PlaceBrühl is a town in the Rhineland between Cologne and Bonn, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
BrumathPlaceBrumath is a town in Alsace, north-eastern France, about 17 kilometres north of Strasbourg.
BruneckPlaceBruneck, in Italian Brunico, is the main town of the Puster Valley in South Tyrol, northern Italy.
Brunei People's PartyPeople / groupThe Brunei People's Party was a political party founded in 1956 under the leadership of A. M. Azahari, calling for independence, democracy and the union of Brunei…
Brunei Shell PetroleumInstitutionBrunei Shell Petroleum is the main oil and gas producer of Brunei, jointly owned by the government of Brunei and the Shell group.
Brunhilda of AustrasiaPersonBrunhilda was a Visigothic princess who married the Frankish king Sigebert I of Austrasia in 567 and dominated Merovingian politics for half a century.
Bruno Mauricio de ZabalaPersonBruno Mauricio de Zabala was a Spanish soldier from the Basque Country who served as governor of Buenos Aires from 1717 to 1734.- Bruno of SchauenburgPersonBruno of Schauenburg was Bishop of Olomouc from 1245 to 1281, a German noble from Holstein who became the chief adviser of King Ottokar II of Bohemia.
Bruno the GreatPersonBruno the Great (925–965) was Archbishop of Cologne from 953 and a younger brother of Otto I.- BrunswickPlaceBrunswick, in German Braunschweig, is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, on the Oker river.
The BrusWork / monumentThe Brus is a long narrative poem in Scots by John Barbour, archdeacon of Aberdeen, completed around 1375.
Brusilov OffensiveCampaign · 1916The Brusilov Offensive was a major Russian attack on the Eastern Front from June to September 1916 during the First World War, led by General Alexei Brusilov along a…
BrusselsPlaceBrussels is the capital of Belgium and the seat of the main institutions of the European Union and of NATO's headquarters.- Brussels Agreement (2013)Treaty · Peace · 2013The Brussels Agreement of April 2013 was a deal between the governments of Serbia and Kosovo, mediated by the European Union, to normalise their relations.
- Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference 1889–1890EventThe Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference of 1889–1890 was an international meeting convened at the invitation of Leopold II of Belgium.
Brussels-Capital RegionPlaceThe Brussels-Capital Region is one of the three regions of federal Belgium, together with Flanders and Wallonia.- BruttiumPlaceBruttium was the ancient name of the toe of Italy, roughly modern Calabria, named after its people, the Bruttii.
- BryakhimovPlaceBryakhimov was a town of Volga Bulgaria mentioned in the Russian chronicles, whose exact location is uncertain.
- BryanskPlaceBryansk is a city on the Desna in western Russia, first mentioned in 1146 as a town of the Principality of Chernigov.
- Bryan–Chamorro TreatyTreaty · 1914The Bryan–Chamorro Treaty was signed in 1914 by the US Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan and the Nicaraguan minister Emiliano Chamorro, and ratified in 1916.
BrychanPersonBrychan is a legendary 5th-century king who gave his name to the Welsh kingdom of Brycheiniog.