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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: GUNPOWDER
gunpowder - first described in China
Gunpowder Plot - in 1605
- brief account
guns - earliest cannon
- earliest hand guns
Gunther - in the Nibelungenlied
Gun War - of 1880-81 in Basutoland
Gupta dynasty - in India
Gur Amir - mausoleum of Timur
gurdwaras - Sikh temples
Gurjara-Pratihara - Indian dynasty
Gurkha (Nepal)
Gustav Line - in Italy in 1943
Gustavus I Vasa, king of Sweden
- and Helsinki
Gustavus II Adolphus, king of Sweden
- and Finland
Gustavus III - king of Sweden
Gustavus IV, king of Sweden
Gutenberg, Johann - and printing
Gutenberg Bible - completed in 1456
Guthrum - Danish king of East Anglia
Guy, Thomas - founds Guy's Hospital
- and Britain
Guy Fawkes Night
Guy's Hospital
- founded in London
- as teaching hospital
- John Keats trains as doctor
Guy the gorilla - London Zoo
Güyük - third great khan
Guzmán, Antonio - in Dominican Republic
Gwalior - the fortress and palace
Gwyn, Nell - mistress of Charles II
- brief biography
Gwynedd - medieval Welsh principality
gymkhana
gymnasium - and Socrates
- naked athletics in Athens
Gypsies - arrival in western Europe
- in Britain
- persecution in 15th-16th century
- in the Holocaust
Gypsy Moth - Francis Chichester
Haakon IV - king of Norway
- and Iceland
- battle of Largs
Haakon VI - king of Norway
Haarlem - massacre in 1573
- civic guards and Frans Hals
habeas corpus
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