Events Tagged: "children"

Diodorus Siculus describes mine horrors - children carry ore through tunnels, prisoners worked to death, bodies left where they fall

Slave children in Spanish mines - boys as young as 7 carry ore baskets, life expectancy under 25 years, no daylight for months

Death of Louis the Stammerer - two posthumous sons, succession disputed, Vikings intensify raids

Emma flees to Normandy with children - escapes Sweyn's invasion, seeks refuge with brother Duke Richard II

Montaillou Cathar testimonies reveal disturbing beliefs - some perfecti taught that children were 'devils' until age of reason, pregnancy seen as demon possession

Jacques Fournier's registers document Cathar endura practices - records of parents allowing sick children to die through endura rather than give them food

Children in Florence report visions of hell during Savonarola's preaching - mass conversions follow

Rousseau begins affair with illiterate laundress Thérèse Levasseur; will abandon five children to foundling hospital

Cincinnati pertussis epidemic among 'appropriately immunized' children

BBC teaches children there are '100, if not more' gender options