Madame Blavatsky was a regular visitor at Hume's Rothney castle at Simla and an account of her visit may be found in Simla, Past and Present by Edward John Buck ( who succeeded Mr. Hume in charge of the Agricultural Department ).

* Bonapartism After Sedan, by John Alexander Murray Rothney ( Cornell University Press, 1969 )

* The Brittany Affair and the Crisis of the Ancien Régime, edited by John Rothney ( 1969 ), Oxford Univ.

* 1389 – John VI, Duke of Brittany ( d. 1442 )

In 1591, the campaign of John Norreys, who led 3, 000 men to Brittany, was even more of a disaster.

13th-century depiction of Henry II of England | Henry II and John's siblings: ( l to r ) William IX, Count of Poitiers | William, Henry the Young King | Henry, Richard I of England | Richard, Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony | Matilda, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany | Geoffrey, Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile | Eleanor, Joan of England, Queen of Sicily | Joan and John

With his primary heir dead, Henry rearranged the plans for the succession: Richard was to be made King of England, albeit without any actual power until the death of his father ; Geoffrey would retain Brittany ; and John would now become the Duke of Aquitaine in place of Richard.

The duchy of Brittany was given to Arthur rather than John, but Geoffrey's death brought John slightly closer to the throne of England.

After Richard's death on 6 April 1199 there were two potential claimants to the Angevin throne: John, whose claim rested on being the sole surviving son of Henry II, and young Arthur of Brittany, who held a claim as the son of Geoffrey, John's elder brother.

As the situation became worse for John, he appears to have decided to have Arthur killed, with the aim of removing his potential rival and of undermining the rebel movement in Brittany.

John's relief operation was blocked by Philip's forces, and John turned back to Brittany in an attempt to draw Philip away from eastern Normandy.

John successfully devastated much of Brittany, but did not deflect Philip's main thrust into the east of Normandy.

* 1286 – John III, Duke of Brittany ( d. 1341 )

Arthur of Brittany would have been a possibility, if he had not disappeared ( widely believed to have been murdered on the orders of John ).

John agreed to heavy terms, including the abandonment of all the English possession in Berry and 20, 000 Marks of Silver, but Philip in turn recognised John as king, formally abandoning Arthur I of Brittany, whom he had thitherto supported, and recognised John's suzerainty over the Duchy of Brittany.

He was also an elder brother of Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany ; Leonora of England, Queen of Castile ; Joan of England ; and John, Count of Mortain, who succeeded him as king.

Richard forgave John when they met again and, bowing to political necessity, named him as his heir in place of Arthur, whose mother Constance of Brittany was perhaps already open to the overtures of Philip II.

However, his French territories initially rejected John as a successor, preferring his nephew Arthur of Brittany, the son of their late brother Geoffrey, whose claim was by modern standards better than John's.

* December 24 – John VI, Duke of Brittany ( d. 1442 )

** John VI, Duke of Brittany ( d. 1442 )

* July – John of England rescues his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, from near capture by the rebellious forces of Arthur I, Duke of Brittany.

* August 1 – Arthur of Brittany is captured in Mirabeau, north of Poitiers, during a battle with John of England.

* January 17 – John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond ( b. c. 1266 )

* April 30 – John III, Duke of Brittany ( b. 1286 )

* 1990 – Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal ( the conviction is later reversed on appeal ).

* Profumo Affair ( 1963 ): Secretary of State for War John Profumo had an affair with prostitute Christine Keeler ( to whom he had been introduced by pimp and drug-dealer Stephen Ward ) who was having an affair with a Soviet spy at the same time.

* 1861 – American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James M. Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and United Kingdom.

* 1963 – British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal known as the Profumo Affair.

He appears, portrayed by John Huston, in the 1975 film The Wind and the Lion, a fictionalization of the Perdicaris Affair in Morocco in 1904.

He won the lasting regard of Jackson by his courtesies to Peggy Eaton, wife of Secretary of War John H. Eaton, with whom the wives of the cabinet officers led by Vice President Calhoun's wife, Floride Calhoun had refused to associate in the Petticoat Affair.

* 1988 – Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

Many subscribers were alienated by Steiner's unpopular support of Émile Zola in the Dreyfus Affair and the journal lost more subscribers when Steiner published extracts from his correspondence with anarchist John Henry Mackay.

They include " Indiscreet ( 1958 ), John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix ( 1966 ), Richard Fleischer's The Boston Strangler ( 1968 ), Norman Jewison's The Thomas Crown Affair ( 1968 ), Airport ( 1970 ), Woodstock ( 1970 ), Carrie ( 1976 ) and More American Graffiti ( 1979 ).

# The Copenhagen Affair by John Oram.

# The Mad Scientist Affair by John T. Phillifent.

The Rainbow Affair is notable for its thinly disguised cameo appearances by The Saint, Miss Marple, John Steed, Emma Peel, Tommy Hambledon ( at whose flat Solo and Ilya encounter Steed and Peel ), Neddie Seagoon, Father Brown, a retired, elderly Sherlock Holmes, and Dr. Fu Manchu.

** Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of 5 charges for his part in the scandal ; the convictions are later reversed on appeal.

** Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

* November 8 – American Civil War – Trent Affair: The USS San Jacinto stops the United Kingdom mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, James Mason and John Slidell, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the U. K. and U. S.

* November 26 – Iran-Contra Affair: U. S. President Ronald Reagan announces that on December 1 former Senator John Tower, former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, and former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft will serve as members of the Special Review Board looking into the scandal ( they became known as the Tower Commission ).

*" The Love Affair " ( The Love Affair, Lord John Press 1982, reprinted in The Toynbee Convector )

As a result of the Eaton Affair, Secretary of State Martin Van Buren and Secretary of War John H. Eaton resigned from office in April 1831, and Jackson requested the resignation of all other cabinet offices as well.

* " The BCCI Affair ", Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Senator John Kerry and Senator Hank Brown, 1992, 102nd Congress 2nd Session Senate Print 102-140 ( Kerry Report ).

* The BCCI Affair, Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations States Senate ; held at FAS -( A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate by Senator John Kerry and Senator Hank Brown ; December 1992 ; 102d Congress 2d Session Senate Print 102-140 )

The Profumo Affair was a 1963 British political scandal named after John Profumo, Secretary of State for War.

* Screen Director's Playhouse: A Foreign Affair opposite Rosalind Russell and John Lund ( 5 March 1949 )

* Screen Director's Playhouse: A Foreign Affair opposite Lucille Ball and John Lund ( 1 March 1951 )

This location of his childhood home had its influence on Lindsay, and one of his poems, " The Eagle Forgotten ", eulogizes Illinois governor John P. Altgeld, whom Lindsay admired for his courage in pardoning the anarchists involved in the Haymarket Affair — despite the strong protests of US President Grover Cleveland.