17 events with tag "decline"
1207 BC
ID: 4631
Tukulti-Ninurta I assassinated by his sons - beginning of Middle Assyrian decline
ID: 4631
627 BC
ID: 4645
Death of Ashurbanipal - succession crisis weakens empire as multiple claimants fight for throne
ID: 4645
562 BC
ID: 2781
Death of Nebuchadnezzar - after 43-year reign, Babylon begins decline under weak successors
ID: 2781
380 BC
ID: 322
Athenian democracy increasingly dominated by demagogues - rhetoric over wisdom, Plato's critique vindicated
ID: 322
232 BC
ID: 3681
Death of Ashoka - Mauryan Empire begins decline under weak successors
ID: 3681
350
ID: 5343
Decline of Roman mining - barbarian invasions disrupt operations, sophisticated drainage and extraction technology lost
ID: 5343
639
ID: 2857
Death of Dagobert I - last strong Merovingian king dies, buried at Saint-Denis, sons are children, mayors dominate
ID: 2857
750
ID: 2884
Era of 'do-nothing kings' ends - last century of Merovingians were puppets, real power held by Carolingian mayors
ID: 2884
984
ID: 5859
Death of Aethelwold weakens reform movement - last of the three great reformers, monastic influence wanes
ID: 5859
1013
ID: 5863
Secular bishops dominate under late Aethelred - monastic reform effectively reversed, married clergy common again
ID: 5863
1038
ID: 4867
Babylonian academies decline - Last major Gaon dies, center of Jewish life shifts to Spain and Europe
ID: 4867
1209
ID: 5281
Albigensian Crusade begins destroying troubadour culture - northern French attack Occitan lands, courts destroyed, patrons killed
ID: 5281
1464
ID: 5169
Medici bank begins decline under Piero - bad loans to princes, mismanagement by agents
ID: 5169
1599
ID: 5898
Only 24 aurochs left in world - all in Jaktorow Forest Poland, 4 bulls and 20 cows, intense protection efforts
ID: 5898
1600
ID: 5771
Cairo spice trade collapses - from 490 tons of pepper annually in 1500 to under 20 tons, Cape route destroys ancient system
ID: 5771
1952
ID: 1661
Korean War military testing: 81% literacy rate (down from 96% in WWII)
ID: 1661
1974
ID: 1930
UK whooping cough vaccination rates begin declining from 80% to 30%
ID: 1930