See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A. D. 1864 (FEBRUARY-MARCH: VIRGINIA).
KILSYTH, Battle of (1645).
See SCOTLAND: A. D. 1644-1645.
KIMON, Peace of.
See ATHENS: B. C. 460-449.
KINBURN, Battle of (1787).
See TURKS: A. D. 1776-1792.
KINDERGARTEN, The.
See EDUCATION, MODERN: REFORMS, &c.: A. D. 1816-1892.
KING, Origin of the word.
"Cyning, by contraction King, is closely connected with the
word 'Cyn' or 'Kin.' … I do not feel myself called upon to
decide whether Cyning is strictly the patronymic of 'cyn,' or
whether it comes immediately from a cognate adjective (see
Allen, Royal Prerogative, 176: Kemble, i. 153). It is enough
if the two words are of the same origin, as is shown by a
whole crowd of cognates, 'cynebarn,' 'cynecyn,' 'cynedom,'
'cynehelm,' 'cynehlaford.' … (I copy from Mr. Earle's
Glossarial Index.) In all these words 'cyn' has the meaning of
'royal.' The modern High-Dutch König is an odd corruption: but
the elder form is 'Chuninc.' The word has never had an English
feminine: Queen is simply 'Cwen,' woman, wife. … The notion
of the King being the 'canning' or 'cunning' man [is] an idea
which could have occurred only to a mind on which all Teutonic
philology was thrown away."
_E. A. Freeman,
History of the Norman Conquest of England,
chapter 3, section 1, and note L (volume 1)._