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Balanced budget amendment
A balanced budget amendment, or balanced-budget constitutional amendment, is a proposed US constitutional amendment barring federal deficits unless Congress overrides by elevated majority; it has never passed.
Balanced budget multiplier
The balanced budget multiplier, or Haavelmo's theorem, is the ratio of output change to an equal change in government spending and taxes, equal to 1 in the Keynesian model.
Balanced growth
Balanced growth is an economics term meaning either coordinated expansion of several sectors in development economics, or a growth path with output and capital growing at constant rates.
Balangiga Massacre
The Balangiga Massacre (Insidente sa Balangiga) was a surprise attack by Filipino townspeople and guerrillas on an American infantry company at Balangiga, Samar, on September 28, 1901.
Balaputradewa
Balaputradewa, also written Bālaputradeva or Balaputra, was a 9th-century king of the Śailendra dynasty who ruled Srivijaya in Sumatra and built a Buddhist monastery at Nālandā.
Balarama (बलराम)
Balarama (बलराम, Balarāma), also Baladeva, Balabhadra, Sankarshana, is the Hindu elder brother of Krishna, bearer of the plough and mace, regarded as Shesha's avatar or the eighth Dashavatara, worshipped at Puri as Balabhadra.
Balarama Dasa
Balarama Dasa (ବଳରାମ ଦାସ) was an Odia Vaishnava poet of the Panchasakha group who wrote under King Prataparudra Deva in late fifteenth and sixteenth century Odisha.
Balarama Varma
Balarama Varma (ബാലരാമ വർമ്മ) was Maharaja of the South Indian princely state of Travancore from 1798 to 1810, whose 1805 treaty made Travancore a subsidiary ally of the English East India Company.
Balash
Balash (بلاش) was a Sasanian king of kings who ruled Iran from 484 to 488, succeeding his brother Peroz and making peace with the Hephthalites before the nobility deposed him.
Balasi
Balasi was an Assyrian court astrologer and scholar of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the 7th century BC, who became the personal teacher of the crown prince Ashurbanipal and is known from letters found at Nineveh.
Balawat Gates
The Balawat Gates, also called the Gates of Balawat, are embossed bronze bands from palace doors at Balawat, Iraq, made under kings Ashurnasirpal II and Shalmaneser III in the 9th century BC.
Balban's suppression of the Chihalgani
Balban's suppression of the Chihalgani (بلبن کی چہلگانی کی سرکوبی) was Ghiyasuddin Balban's destruction of the Corps of Forty, the Turkish amirs who dominated the Delhi Sultanate.
Balban's suppression of the Mewatis and restoration of royal authority
Balban's suppression of the Mewatis (बलबन का मेवाती दमन) was a series of campaigns by Sultan Ghiyas al-Din Balban against the predatory Mewatis of Mewat near Delhi.
Balbhadra Kunwar
Balbhadra Kunwar (बलभद्र कुँवर) was a Gorkhali commander of the Nepali army, born in Kathmandu in 1790, known for defending Nalapani fort against a British assault in 1814.
Balbir Singh Seechewal
Balbir Singh Seechewal is an Indian Aam Aadmi Party politician and Rajya Sabha member from Punjab since 2022, known for reviving the Kali Bein rivulet.
Balcerowicz Plan
The Balcerowicz Plan was Poland's economic stabilization program, designed in 1989 by Deputy Prime Minister Leszek Balcerowicz and implemented on 1 January 1990 to end hyperinflation.
Balcha Safo
Balcha Safo, also rendered Balcha Aba Nefso, was an Ethiopian military commander and governor known for his role in the victory over Italy at Adwa in 1896.
Balcombe Street siege
Six-day December 1975 London hostage siege in which four Provisional IRA men (O'Connell, Butler, Duggan, Doherty) held a couple at 22b Balcombe Street, Marylebone, after a chase following a shooting at Scott's restaurant, and surrendered unharmed.
Bald Knobbers
The Bald Knobbers were vigilante groups active in the Ozarks of southwestern Missouri in the 1880s, led by Nat Kinny to enforce law and moral standards.
Baldassare Reina
Baldassare Reina (born 1970) is an Italian cardinal, Vicar General of the Diocese of Rome, Archpriest of Saint John Lateran, and Apostolic Administrator of Ostia, made cardinal by Pope Francis on 7 December 2024.
Baldomero Espartero
Baldomero Espartero (1793-1879) was a Spanish general and statesman, hero of the First Carlist War (Luchana, Convenio de Vergara), Regent of Spain 1841-1843, prime minister during the Progressive Biennium 1854-1856, and Duke of the Victory who declined the Spanish crown in 1870.
Baldr
Baldr (Old Norse Baldr; Balder, Baldur) is an Æsir god in Norse mythology, son of Odin and Frigg, husband of Nanna, father of Forseti, killed by blind Höðr via Loki's mistletoe trick, heralding Ragnarök, with a rival warlike version in Saxo's Gesta Danorum.
Baldur von Schirach
Baldur von Schirach (Baldur Benedikt von Schirach, 1907–1974) was a German Nazi politician who led the Hitler Youth for most of the 1930s and served as Gauleiter of Vienna.
Baldwin
Baldwin of Forde (c.1125–1190) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1184, a Cistercian abbot remembered for a long dispute with his cathedral monks and for preaching the Third Crusade.
Baldwin I of Jerusalem
Baldwin I of Jerusalem (ca. 1058–1118), Baldwin of Boulogne, brother of Godfrey of Bouillon, was count of Edessa 1098–1100 and first Latin king of Jerusalem 1100–1118, crowned in Bethlehem on Christmas Day 1100, winning three battles of Ramla and dying on an Egyptian raid.
Baldwin II of Jerusalem
Baldwin II of Jerusalem (Baldwin of Bourcq, d. 21 August 1131), count of Edessa 1100–1118 and second Latin king of Jerusalem 1118–1131; captured 1123, took Tyre 1124 with Venetian aid, founded the Templars, and left the throne to Melisende and Fulk V of Anjou.
Baldwin III of Jerusalem
Baldwin III of Jerusalem (بالدوين الثالث) was king of Jerusalem from 1143 to 1163, the eldest son of King Fulk and Queen Melisende, who captured Ascalon from the Fatimids in 1153.
Baldwin IV of Jerusalem
Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, called the Leper King, was king of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem from 1174 until his death in 1185, leading its armies against Saladin despite leprosy.
Baldwin V of Jerusalem
Baldwin V of Jerusalem (1177/1178–1186), child king, son of Sibylla and William of Montferrat; co-king with leper uncle Baldwin IV from 1183, sole king 1185–1186 under regent Raymond III of Tripoli; died in Acre, succeeded by Sibylla and Guy of Lusignan.
Bale Dalton
Bale Dalton is an American politician and the Democratic nominee for Florida's 7th Congressional District in the 2026 U.S. House election, facing former anchor Ryan Elijah.