19 events with tag "culture"
1200 BC
ID: 5410
Dionysus cult spreads in Greece - wine becomes sacred, symposium culture develops, wine mixed with water as civilized practice
ID: 5410
1100 BC
ID: 3643
Greek Dark Ages begin - 400-year period of cultural decline, loss of literacy, abandonment of cities
ID: 3643
800 BC
ID: 3660
Hallstatt culture emerges - early Celtic Iron Age culture, salt mining wealth, elaborate burials
ID: 3660
500 BC
ID: 2619
Celtic peoples established in Britain - Iron Age culture brings hillforts, artistic metalwork, druidism
ID: 2619
461 BC
ID: 238
Pericles rises to power in Athens - begins Golden Age: democracy, building program, cultural flowering
ID: 238
450 BC
ID: 3662
La Tène culture develops - elaborate metalwork, curved designs, warrior culture spreads across Europe
ID: 3662
80 BC
ID: 5381
Druids oppose wine trade - see Roman luxury corrupting warrior culture, attempt to limit wine consumption and Roman influence
ID: 5381
40 BC
ID: 5401
Gallo-Roman villa culture emerges - Celtic aristocrats adopt Roman lifestyle, wine production begins in Gaul, hybrid culture develops
ID: 5401
51
ID: 4667
Vologases I establishes Parthian era - cultural renaissance, Zoroastrian texts compiled
ID: 4667
421
ID: 4682
Bahram V 'the Wild Ass' - legendary king, patron of arts, tolerance toward minorities
ID: 4682
632
ID: 2856
Dagobert patronizes arts - commissions St. Eligius (master goldsmith), builds Saint-Denis basilica, cultural flowering
ID: 2856
643
ID: 4817
Edictum Rothari issued - Lombard law code combines Germanic customs with Roman law
ID: 4817
960
ID: 4714
Song Dynasty founded - cultural zenith, invention of gunpowder weapons, compass, paper money
ID: 4714
1100
ID: 5286
Occitan becomes literary language - troubadour poetry makes langue d'oc the language of refined culture across southern Europe
ID: 5286
1110
ID: 5267
Troubadour culture flourishes in Aquitaine - William IX establishes courts of love, patronizes poets, creates new art form
ID: 5267
1152
ID: 5271
Eleanor of Aquitaine patronizes troubadours - after marrying Henry II, spreads Occitan culture to England and northern France
ID: 5271
1162
ID: 5121
Venice Carnival begins - victory celebration over Patriarch of Aquileia becomes annual festival, masks allow social mixing
ID: 5121
1209
ID: 5282
July 1209
Massacre at Béziers - 'Kill them all, God will know his own' - troubadour courts annihilated, Occitan culture suppressed
ID: 5282
1836
ID: 806
Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots premieres at Berlin Opera - establishes Berlin as cultural center
ID: 806