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ElchePlaceElche is a city in the province of Alicante, south-eastern Spain, near the site of Iberian and Roman Ilici at La Alcudia, where the Lady of Elche was found.
ElchingenPlaceElchingen is a municipality in the district of Neu-Ulm in Bavaria, Germany, on the Danube north-east of Ulm.
Eldena AbbeyPlaceEldena Abbey was a Cistercian monastery near Greifswald on the Pomeranian coast, founded in 1199 under Prince Jaromar I of Rügen.
Eldred PottingerPersonEldred Pottinger was an officer of the East India Company's Bombay Artillery who, travelling in disguise, was in Herat when Persia besieged it in 1837–1838 and helped…
Eleanor of AquitainePersonEleanor of Aquitaine was Duchess of Aquitaine and Countess of Poitou in her own right from 1137.
Eleanor of ArboreaPersonEleanor of Arborea was a Sardinian ruler who governed the Judicate of Arborea for her young sons from 1383 until her death in 1404.
Eleanor of CastilePersonEleanor of Castile was Queen of England as the first wife of Edward I, whom she married in 1254.
Eleanor of England, Queen of CastilePersonEleanor of England was a daughter of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine who married Alfonso VIII of Castile in 1177.- Eleazar ben SimonPersonEleazar ben Simon was a Jewish priest and leader of the Zealots during the First Jewish–Roman War.
Eleazar López ContrerasPersonEleazar López Contreras was a Venezuelan army officer and politician who was president of Venezuela from 1935 to 1941.
Election Commission of IndiaInstitutionThe Election Commission of India is the constitutional body that has organised elections to the national parliament, the state legislatures and the presidency since 1950.
Elective monarchyInstitutionAn elective monarchy is a system in which the monarch is chosen by election rather than inheriting the throne.- Elector PalatineTermElector Palatine was the title of the Count Palatine of the Rhine as one of the prince-electors of the Holy Roman Empire, confirmed by the Golden Bull of 1356.
Electorate of CologneStateThe Electorate of Cologne was the ecclesiastical principality of the archbishops of Cologne within the Holy Roman Empire, one of its seven original electorates.
Eleftherios VenizelosPersonEleftherios Venizelos was a Cretan politician who led the campaign for Crete's union with Greece and became Prime Minister of Greece in 1910.- Elementary Education Act 1870Work / monumentThe Elementary Education Act 1870, sponsored by W.
- Elena CeaușescuPersonElena Ceaușescu (1916–1989) was the wife of the Romanian communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu and from the 1970s the second most powerful person in the country, as a…
Elena GlinskayaPersonElena Glinskaya was the second wife of Vasily III of Moscow and the mother of Ivan IV, for whom she ruled as regent from 1533 until her death in 1538.
Eleni of EthiopiaPersonEleni was an Ethiopian empress, born a princess of the Muslim Hadiya Sultanate, who married Emperor Zara Yaqob and converted to Christianity.
Eleonora Fonseca PimentelPersonEleonora Fonseca Pimentel was a Neapolitan poet and journalist, born in Rome to a Portuguese noble family, who became a leading figure of the Parthenopean Republic of…
Elephanta CavesWork / monumentThe Elephanta Caves are rock-cut cave temples on Elephanta Island in Mumbai harbour, India, mostly dedicated to Shiva and carved in the 5th to 6th centuries.
Eleusinian MysteriesReligion / ideaThe Eleusinian Mysteries were the secret initiation rites of Demeter and her daughter Persephone, or Kore, held each year at Eleusis in Attica under the supervision of…
EleusisPlaceEleusis is an ancient town in Attica, about 18 kilometres north-west of Athens, now called Elefsina.
EleutheraPlaceEleuthera is a long, narrow island in the Bahamas, east of New Providence.- Eleutheria (Plataea)EventThe Eleutheria was a festival of freedom held at Plataea in Boeotia in honour of Zeus Eleutherios, commemorating the Greek victory over the Persians there in 479 BCE.
- Eleutherius (exarch)PersonEleutherius was a eunuch official of the Byzantine Empire who served as exarch of Ravenna from 616.
Eli WhitneyPersonEli Whitney was an American inventor who patented the cotton gin in 1794, a machine that separated cotton fibres from their seeds far faster than by hand.- Elias I, Count of MainePersonElias of La Flèche (died 1110) was Count of Maine from the 1090s.
Elias LönnrotPersonElias Lönnrot was a Finnish physician and philologist who collected oral folk poetry on long journeys through Finland and Karelia and compiled from it the national…
Elias Peter HoayekPersonElias Peter Hoayek was Maronite Patriarch of Antioch from 1898 to 1931.- ElibaalPersonElibaal was a king of Byblos around 900 BCE.
Elihan TörePersonElihan Töre was an Uzbek Muslim cleric from Tokmok who became president of the Second East Turkestan Republic, proclaimed at Ghulja in northern Xinjiang in November 1944.
ElijahPersonElijah was a Hebrew prophet of the 9th century BCE in the northern Kingdom of Israel, known from the biblical Books of Kings.- Elijah LevitaPersonElijah Levita was a Hebrew grammarian, scholar and Yiddish poet born near Nuremberg who spent most of his life in Italy.
- ElipandusPersonElipandus was archbishop of Toledo in the late eighth century, when the city was under Muslim rule.
Elisa BonapartePersonElisa Bonaparte, Napoleon's eldest surviving sister, was made Princess of Lucca and Piombino in 1805 and ruled it with energy, reforming its administration and…
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-WolfenbüttelPersonElisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was Holy Roman Empress as the wife of Charles VI, whom she married in 1708 after converting from Lutheranism to Catholicism.
Elisabeth FarnesePersonElisabeth Farnese (1692–1766) was queen of Spain as the second wife of Philip V from 1714, and heiress of the Farnese dukes of Parma.- Elisabeth of GörlitzPersonElisabeth of Görlitz (1390–1451) was Duchess of Luxembourg, a niece of Emperor Sigismund of the House of Luxembourg.
Elisabeth of the PalatinatePersonElisabeth of the Palatinate was a German princess and philosopher, the eldest daughter of Frederick V, the 'Winter King' of Bohemia.- Elisabethenburg PalaceWork / monumentElisabethenburg Palace is the former residence of the dukes of Saxe-Meiningen in Meiningen, Thuringia.
Elisedd ap GwylogPersonElisedd ap Gwylog was a king of Powys in the first half of the 8th century.
ElishaPersonElisha was a prophet of the northern Kingdom of Israel in the ninth century BCE, the disciple and successor of Elijah according to the Books of Kings.- Eliza Lucas PinckneyPersonEliza Lucas Pinckney was a South Carolina planter who, while managing her father's plantations as a young woman, developed indigo as a commercial crop in the 1740s.
Elizabeth CastleWork / monumentElizabeth Castle is a fortress on a tidal islet in St Aubin's Bay off Saint Helier, Jersey.
Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame PalatinePersonElizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, known as Liselotte, was a daughter of Elector Charles I Louis who married Philippe, Duke of Orléans, brother of Louis XIV, in 1671.
Elizabeth IPersonElizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603, the last Tudor monarch.
Elizabeth IIPersonElizabeth II was Queen of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 2022, the longest reign of any British monarch.
Elizabeth Lucretia, Duchess of TeschenPersonElizabeth Lucretia was Duchess of Cieszyn, or Teschen, from 1625 to 1653, the last ruler of the Cieszyn branch of the Piast dynasty.
Elizabeth of HungaryPersonElizabeth of Hungary was a daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary and Gertrude of Merania who married Landgrave Louis IV of Thuringia.- Elizabeth of PomeraniaPersonElizabeth of Pomerania was the daughter of Duke Bogislaw V of Pomerania and granddaughter of King Casimir III of Poland.
Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of BohemiaPersonElizabeth Stuart was the daughter of James VI and I and the wife of Frederick V, Elector Palatine, whom she married in 1613.
Elizabeth, New JerseyPlaceElizabeth is a city in north-eastern New Jersey, United States, founded in 1664 as Elizabethtown, the first English settlement in the colony.
ElkabPlaceElkab, ancient Nekheb, is an archaeological site on the east bank of the Nile in Upper Egypt, south of Luxor.
EllacPersonEllac was the eldest son of Attila.
EllalanPersonEllalan, called Elara in the Pali chronicles, was a Tamil prince from the Chola country who ruled Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka for about 44 years in the 2nd century BCE.
Ellen Johnson SirleafPersonEllen Johnson Sirleaf is a Liberian economist and politician who was elected president in 2005, the first elected woman head of state in Africa.
Ellice IslandsPlaceThe Ellice Islands are a chain of atolls in the central Pacific, today the state of Tuvalu.
Elliott CressonPersonElliott Cresson was a Quaker merchant and philanthropist from Philadelphia and a leading advocate of the American Colonization Society, which settled free African…- Ellora CavesWork / monumentThe Ellora Caves are a group of 34 rock-cut Buddhist, Hindu and Jain temples and monasteries near Aurangabad in Maharashtra, India, carved between about 600 and 1000 CE.
EllwangenPlaceEllwangen is a town on the Jagst in eastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
ElminaPlaceElmina is a town on the coast of present-day Ghana, site of São Jorge da Mina, the castle built by the Portuguese in 1482.- Elmina NoteTermThe Elmina Note was a document entitling an African power to a regular rent paid by the Dutch for the land of their castle at Elmina on the Gold Coast.
ElmshornPlaceElmshorn is a town in the Pinneberg district of Schleswig-Holstein, on the Krückau about 30 km north-west of Hamburg.
Eloy AlfaroPersonEloy Alfaro was the leader of Ecuador's Liberal Revolution of 1895 and president from 1895 to 1901 and from 1906 to 1911.
EluruPlaceEluru is a city in Andhra Pradesh, India, in the delta region between the Godavari and Krishna rivers.- ElusaPlaceElusa, modern Eauze in the Gers department of south-western France, was the chief town of the Elusates, an Aquitanian people.
Elwell OtisPersonElwell Otis was a United States Army general who served as military governor of the Philippines from 1898 to 1900.- Ely O'CarrollPlaceEly O'Carroll was a Gaelic lordship in the Irish midlands, covering much of what is now south County Offaly and north County Tipperary around Birr.
Ely, CambridgeshirePlaceEly is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England, on a former island in the Fens. Æthelthryth founded a monastery there in 673; refounded in 970, it became a…
ElymiansPeople / groupThe Elymians were an ancient people of north-western Sicily whose main towns were Segesta, Eryx and Entella.- Élysée AccordsTreaty · 1949The Élysée Accords were agreements signed on 8 March 1949 by the French President Vincent Auriol and the former emperor Bảo Đại.
Emain MachaPlaceEmain Macha, now Navan Fort near Armagh in Northern Ireland, was the legendary royal centre of the Ulaid and the seat of King Conchobar in the Ulster Cycle.- Emancipation ProclamationWork / monumentThe Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on 1 January 1863, during the American Civil War, declaring free all enslaved…
Emancipation reform of 1861EventThe emancipation reform of 1861 was the decree of Tsar Alexander II abolishing serfdom in the Russian Empire.
Emanuel MerckPersonEmanuel Merck was a German pharmacist who turned his family's pharmacy in Darmstadt into an industrial firm.
EmdenPlaceEmden is a port city in East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany, near the mouth of the Ems on the Dollart bay.
Emerald BuddhaWork / monumentThe Emerald Buddha is a small statue of the seated Buddha carved from green jade, the palladium of Thailand.
Emerald MoundPlaceEmerald Mound is a large Mississippian-period platform mound near Natchez, Mississippi, in the United States, built from about 1250 by ancestors of the Natchez people.
The Emergency (India)Crisis · 1975–1977The Emergency was a period from June 1975 to March 1977 during which Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ruled by decree after a court found her guilty of electoral malpractice.
Emerita AugustaPlaceEmerita Augusta, modern Mérida in Spain, was a Roman colony founded in 25 BCE for veterans of the Cantabrian Wars.- Emil ConstantinescuPersonEmil Constantinescu is a Romanian geologist and politician who served as president of Romania from 1996 to 2000.
Emil HáchaPersonEmil Hácha was a Czech lawyer who became President of Czechoslovakia after the Munich Agreement in 1938.
Emil KörnerPersonEmil Körner was a Prussian army officer hired by Chile in 1885 to modernise its army.- Emil RiverPlaceThe Emil is a river of Central Asia that rises in the Tarbagatai region of north-western Xinjiang, China, and flows west into Lake Alakol in Kazakhstan.
Emil von ZelewskiPersonEmil von Zelewski was a German officer who commanded the colonial troops in German East Africa.
Émile OllivierPersonÉmile Ollivier was a French liberal politician who rallied to Napoleon III and in January 1870 became head of government of the parliamentary 'Liberal Empire'.- EmiliaPlaceEmilia is a historic region of northern Italy between the Po and the Apennines, named after the Roman road, the Via Aemilia, that crosses it.
Emilio AguinaldoPersonEmilio Aguinaldo was a leader of the Philippine Revolution against Spain from 1896.
Emilio CastelarPersonEmilio Castelar was a Spanish historian, orator and republican politician who drafted the federal constitution of 1873 and was the fourth and last president of the…- Emilio De BonoPersonEmilio De Bono was an Italian general and one of the four leaders of Mussolini's March on Rome in 1922.
Emílio Garrastazu MédiciPersonEmílio Garrastazu Médici was a Brazilian general who served as president from 1969 to 1974, the harshest period of the military dictatorship.
Emilio JacintoPersonEmilio Jacinto was a Filipino revolutionary and the leading intellectual of the Katipunan, the secret society that launched the revolution against Spain in 1896.
Emily RuetePersonEmily Ruete, born Sayyida Salme, was a daughter of Said bin Sultan, ruler of Oman and Zanzibar.
EmirInstitutionAn emir is an Arabic title meaning commander or prince, used for military leaders, governors and rulers in Islamic states.
Emir AbdelkaderPersonEmir Abdelkader was an Algerian religious and military leader who led resistance to the French conquest of Algeria from 1832 to 1847.- EmirateInstitutionAn emirate is a territory ruled by an emir.
Emirate of CórdobaStateThe Emirate of Córdoba was the Muslim state in Iberia founded in 756 by Abd al-Rahman I, a survivor of the Umayyad dynasty after its overthrow by the Abbasids.- Emirates Mars MissionWork / monumentThe Emirates Mars Mission is the United Arab Emirates' space probe to Mars, known as Hope (Al-Amal).
Emma of NormandyPersonEmma of Normandy was a daughter of Duke Richard I of Normandy who was twice queen of England, first as wife of Æthelred the Unready from 1002 and then of Cnut the Great…