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- Christian I, Duke of Saxe-MerseburgPersonChristian I, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg, was a younger son of Elector John George I of Saxony.
Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-BernburgPersonChristian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, received Bernburg in the 1603 division of Anhalt.
Christian II of DenmarkPersonChristian II of Denmark was king of Denmark and Norway from 1513 and of Sweden from 1520 to 1521, the last monarch of the Kalmar Union to rule all three kingdoms.
Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-BirkenfeldPersonChristian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, ruled Birkenfeld, a minor branch of the Wittelsbach family, from 1654 until his death in 1717.
Christian III of DenmarkPersonChristian III of Denmark was king of Denmark and Norway from 1534 to 1559.
Christian III, Count Palatine of ZweibrückenPersonChristian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, was the son of Christian II of Birkenfeld, a minor branch of the Wittelsbach family.
Christian IV of DenmarkPersonChristian IV was King of Denmark and Norway from 1588 to 1648.
Christian Knorr von RosenrothPersonChristian Knorr von Rosenroth was a German scholar, poet and Christian Kabbalist who served as chancellor at the court of Christian August of Palatinate-Sulzbach.
Christian RantzauPersonChristian Rantzau was a Holstein noble and Danish statesman who served Frederick III of Denmark as governor of the royal parts of Schleswig-Holstein and later as the…- Christian Social Party (Austria)People / groupThe Christian Social Party was an Austrian Catholic conservative party founded in 1891 and led in its early years by Karl Lueger, mayor of Vienna.
Christian Social Union in BavariaPeople / groupThe Christian Social Union in Bavaria is a conservative political party founded in 1945 that operates only in Bavaria, where it has led the state government almost…
Christian the Younger of BrunswickPersonChristian the Younger of Brunswick was a German Protestant commander in the Thirty Years' War and administrator of the prince-bishopric of Halberstadt from 1616.
Christian ThomasiusPersonChristian Thomasius (1655–1728) was a German jurist and philosopher, one of the founders of the early German Enlightenment.
Christian VIII of DenmarkPersonChristian VIII was King of Denmark from 1839 to 1848.- ChristianityReligion / ideaChristianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, which arose in the first century CE.
ChristianstedPlaceChristiansted is the largest town on Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
Christina of LorrainePersonChristina of Lorraine was a granddaughter of Catherine de' Medici who married Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, in 1589, a match that balanced Spanish…
Christina, Queen of SwedenPersonChristina was queen of Sweden, succeeding her father Gustavus Adolphus as a child in 1632.
Christine of FrancePersonChristine of France, daughter of Henry IV and Marie de' Medici, married Victor Amadeus I of Savoy in 1619.
Christmas BattlesBattle · 1916–1917The Christmas Battles were a Russian offensive against German positions near Riga in late December 1916 and January 1917, in which Latvian Riflemen units broke through…
Christmas UprisingRevolt · January 1919The Christmas Uprising was a revolt in Montenegro in early January 1919, around Orthodox Christmas, by supporters of independence and of the deposed King Nicholas I…
Christoph Bernhard von GalenPersonChristoph Bernhard von Galen was prince-bishop of Münster from 1650 to 1678.
Christoph FroschauerPersonChristoph Froschauer was a Bavarian-born printer who became the leading publisher of the Reformation in Zürich.
Christoph Martin WielandPersonChristoph Martin Wieland was a German poet and novelist of the Enlightenment, born near Biberach, where he served as town clerk from 1760 to 1769.
Christoph SchappelerPersonChristoph Schappeler was a preacher in Memmingen from 1513 who led the city's turn to the Reformation.
Christoph Willibald GluckPersonChristoph Willibald Gluck was a German-born composer who worked for much of his career in Vienna for the Habsburg court.
Christoph, Duke of WürttembergPersonChristoph was Duke of Württemberg from 1550 to 1568, succeeding his father Ulrich.
Christophe PlantinPersonChristophe Plantin was a French-born printer and publisher who settled in Antwerp in 1549 and built one of the largest printing businesses in Europe.- Christopher Codrington (1640–1698)PersonChristopher Codrington was a Barbados-born planter and colonial governor who began large-scale sugar planting on Antigua in 1674.
Christopher ColumbusPersonChristopher Columbus was a Genoese navigator whose voyage of 1492, funded by the Castilian crown, reached the Caribbean.
Christopher II of DenmarkPersonChristopher II was King of Denmark from 1320 to 1326 and again from 1329 to 1332.
Christopher LuxonPersonChristopher Luxon is a New Zealand politician and former businessman who became Prime Minister in November 2023.
Christopher MarlowePersonChristopher Marlowe was an English playwright and poet of the Elizabethan age whose plays Tamburlaine, Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta and Edward II established blank…
Christopher SoamesPersonChristopher Soames, Lord Soames, was a British Conservative politician and son-in-law of Winston Churchill.
Chrodegang of MetzPersonChrodegang was bishop of Metz from 742 until his death in 766 and a leading churchman of the early Carolingian kingdom under Pippin the Short.
Chronicle of AlbeldaWork / monumentThe Chronicle of Albelda is a Latin chronicle compiled at the court of Alfonso III of Asturias around 881–883, named after the monastery of Albelda in La Rioja, where a…- Chronicle of Alfonso IIIWork / monumentThe Chronicle of Alfonso III is a Latin chronicle written at the court of Alfonso III of Asturias in the late ninth century, surviving in two versions.
- Chronicle of ChicxulubWork / monumentThe Chronicle of Chicxulub is an account of the Spanish conquest of Yucatán written in the Yucatec Maya language by Nakuk Pech, a noble of the Ceh Pech province, in the…
Chronicle of FredegarWork / monumentThe Chronicle of Fredegar is a Latin chronicle compiled in Frankish Gaul, probably in Burgundy, around 660, and attributed since the 16th century to an otherwise…
Chronicle of the MoreaWork / monumentThe Chronicle of the Morea is a fourteenth-century history of the Frankish Principality of Achaea in the Peloponnese, surviving in Greek, French, Aragonese and Italian…
Chronicon terrae PrussiaeWork / monumentThe Chronicon terrae Prussiae, or Chronicle of the Prussian Land, is a Latin history of the Teutonic Order completed in 1326 by Peter of Dusburg, a priest of the Order.- ChrysocheirPersonChrysocheir was the last leader of the Paulicians of Tephrike, a nephew and son-in-law of Karbeas, whom he succeeded in 863.
Chu CiWork / monumentThe Chu Ci (Songs of Chu) is an anthology of Chinese poetry compiled in the Han dynasty, in its received form by Wang Yi in the second century CE.
Chữ NômTermChữ Nôm is a script for writing the Vietnamese language, built from Chinese characters and new characters formed on their model.- Chu Silk ManuscriptWork / monumentThe Chu Silk Manuscript is a silk sheet with text and painted figures from a Warring States tomb at Zidanku in Changsha, Hunan, looted in 1942 and now held by the…
ChucuitoPlaceChucuito is a town on the western shore of Lake Titicaca in the Puno region of Peru.- Chudamani ViharaPlaceThe Chudamani Vihara was a Buddhist monastery at Nagapattinam on the Coromandel coast of south India, built in the early eleventh century by the Srivijayan king Sri…
Chufut-KalePlaceChufut-Kale is a ruined cliff-top fortress town in the mountains of Crimea, a few kilometres east of Bakhchysarai.
Chūgoku regionPlaceThe Chūgoku region is the western end of Honshu, the main island of Japan, made up of the prefectures of Hiroshima, Okayama, Shimane, Tottori and Yamaguchi.
ChulalongkornPersonChulalongkorn, King Rama V of Siam, reigned from 1868 to 1910.
Chungcheong ProvincePlaceChungcheong Province was one of the Eight Provinces of Joseon Korea, in the centre-west of the peninsula, divided in 1896 into North and South Chungcheong.- Chungnyeol of GoryeoPersonChungnyeol of Goryeo was king of Goryeo from 1274 to 1298 and again from 1298 to 1308.
- ChupanPersonChupan was a powerful Mongol military commander, or amir, in the Ilkhanate in the early fourteenth century.
ChupanidsStateThe Chupanids were a dynasty descended from the Mongol commander Chupan that controlled parts of northwestern Iran and Azerbaijan in the mid-fourteenth century.
ChuquicamataPlaceChuquicamata is a copper mine near Calama in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, long the largest open-pit mine in the world by excavated volume.
ChurPlaceChur is the capital of the canton of Graubünden in eastern Switzerland, on the Rhine near the routes to the Alpine passes.
Church of EnglandInstitutionThe Church of England is the established Christian church of England, which broke from papal authority under Henry VIII in 1534 and took a Protestant form under Edward…
Church of IrelandInstitutionThe Church of Ireland is the Anglican church in Ireland.- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsInstitutionThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the largest church of the Latter Day Saint movement, founded by Joseph Smith in New York in 1830.
- Church of Sainte-Foy, SélestatWork / monumentThe Church of Sainte-Foy in Sélestat, Alsace, is a Romanesque church built in the 12th century for a priory dependent on the abbey of Conques.
- Church of Saints Peter and Paul, RosheimWork / monumentThe Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Rosheim, Alsace, is a Romanesque church built in the middle of the 12th century of yellow sandstone.
Church of Santa Coloma (Andorra)Work / monumentThe church of Santa Coloma is a pre-Romanesque and Romanesque church in the parish of Andorra la Vella, Andorra, first documented in the ninth century.- Church of ScotlandInstitutionThe Church of Scotland, known as the Kirk, is Scotland's national church, Presbyterian in government and Reformed in doctrine.
Church of St. TrophimeWork / monumentThe Church of St.- Church of the EastReligion / ideaThe Church of the East is an ancient Christian church centred in Mesopotamia, often called Nestorian.
- Church of the Forty MartyrsWork / monumentThe Church of the Forty Martyrs is a medieval church in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, built by Tsar Ivan Asen II to commemorate his victory at Klokotnitsa in 1230.
- Church of the Holy Apostles, KarsWork / monumentThe Church of the Holy Apostles is a 10th-century Armenian church in Kars, eastern Turkey, built by King Abas I of Bagratid Armenia between about 930 and 943.
Church of the Holy SepulchreWork / monumentThe Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem stands on the site that Christian tradition holds to be the place of Jesus's crucifixion and burial.
Church of the Holy Spirit, HeidelbergWork / monumentThe Church of the Holy Spirit is the main church of Heidelberg's old town, built in Gothic style from 1398 and the burial place of several electors palatine.- Church of the Holy Spirit, TallinnWork / monumentThe Church of the Holy Spirit is a medieval Gothic church in the old town of Tallinn (Reval), built in the 14th century as the chapel of the town hall and the almshouse.
- Church of the Intercession on the NerlWork / monumentThe Church of the Intercession on the Nerl is a white-stone church near Bogolyubovo, outside Vladimir in Russia, built in 1165 under Andrei Bogolyubsky.
- Church of the Society of Jesus, QuitoWork / monumentThe Church of the Society of Jesus, known as La Compañía, is a Jesuit church in the historic centre of Quito, Ecuador, built from 1605 to 1765.
Church of the Transfiguration on Ilyina StreetWork / monumentThe Church of the Transfiguration on Ilyina Street is a medieval church on the Trade Side of Veliky Novgorod, Russia, built in 1374.
Chūson-jiWork / monumentChūson-ji is a Tendai Buddhist temple complex at Hiraizumi in Iwate prefecture, northern Japan.
Chutia peoplePeople / groupThe Chutia are an ethnic group of Assam in north-eastern India, of Bodo-Kachari origin.
Chutu dynastyStateThe Chutu dynasty ruled parts of the western Deccan around Banavasi in present-day Karnataka in the second and third centuries CE, probably first as feudatories and…- ChuukPlaceChuuk is a state of the Federated States of Micronesia, centred on Chuuk Lagoon in the Caroline Islands.
Chuuk LagoonPlaceChuuk Lagoon, formerly Truk, is a large lagoon enclosed by a coral reef in the Caroline Islands, now part of the Federated States of Micronesia.
Chuvash peoplePeople / groupThe Chuvash are a Turkic people of the middle Volga, most of whom live in the Chuvash Republic of Russia, with its capital at Cheboksary.- Chūzan SeikanWork / monumentThe Chūzan Seikan (Reflections on Chūzan) is the first official history of the Ryukyu Kingdom, written in Japanese by Haneji Chōshū and completed in 1650.
Chu–Han ContentionWarThe Chu-Han Contention was the civil war that followed the collapse of the Qin dynasty in the late third century BCE, fought between Xiang Yu of Chu and Liu Bang of Han.- ChweziPeople / groupThe Chwezi are the semi-divine rulers of the kingdom of Kitara in the traditions of western Uganda and neighbouring regions, said to have succeeded the Batembuzi and…
- ChyhyrynPlaceChyhyryn is a small town on the Tiasmyn river in the Cherkasy region of central Ukraine.
Cia degli UbaldiniPersonCia degli Ubaldini was the wife of Francesco II Ordelaffi, lord of Forlì.
CiamisPlaceCiamis is a town and regency in West Java, Indonesia, in hill country near the border with Central Java.
Ciarán of SaighirPersonCiarán of Saigir, also called Ciarán the Elder, was an early Irish saint, traditionally regarded as the first bishop of Ossory and as active even before Saint Patrick.
Ciaruteun inscriptionWork / monumentThe Ciaruteun inscription is a 5th-century stone inscription found in the Ciaruteun stream near Bogor in West Java, Indonesia.
CibaoPlaceThe Cibao is a region of the northern Dominican Republic, made up of the fertile valley between the Cordillera Septentrional and the Cordillera Central and the…
CiceroPersonCicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, orator and philosopher, the greatest master of Latin prose.- CiconesPeople / groupThe Cicones were a Thracian people living on the northern Aegean coast near Ismarus and Maroneia.
Cidade VelhaPlaceCidade Velha, originally Ribeira Grande, on the island of Santiago, was the first capital of Portuguese Cape Verde and one of the first European towns in the tropics.
CieszynPlaceCieszyn (German: Teschen) is a town in southern Poland on the Olza river, which since 1920 has formed the border with the Czech town of Český Těšín.- Cihangiroglu Ibrahim BeyPersonCihangiroglu Ibrahim Bey was a notable of Kars who headed the Southwestern Caucasian Republic, a short-lived Muslim government set up after Ottoman troops withdrew from…
CilentoPlaceThe Cilento is a hilly region of southern Campania, Italy, in the province of Salerno between the Gulf of Salerno and the Gulf of Policastro.
CiliciaPlaceCilicia is a historical region on the southeastern coast of Anatolia, north of Cyprus.
Ciliwung RiverPlaceThe Ciliwung is a river in western Java, Indonesia, flowing north from the highlands near Bogor through Jakarta to the Java Sea.- CilliumPlaceCillium was a Roman town in the province of Byzacena, at the site of modern Kasserine in west-central Tunisia, still known for its triumphal arch and mausoleums.
CilmeriPlaceCilmeri is a village near Builth Wells in Powys, Wales.
Cimanuk RiverPlaceThe Cimanuk is a river in West Java, Indonesia, flowing north from the Garut highlands to the Java Sea near Indramayu.
CimbriPeople / groupThe Cimbri were an ancient people, probably from northern Jutland, whose migration with the Teutones and others shook the Roman Republic from 113 BCE.