21 events with tag "power"
200 BC
ID: 5390
Celtic women's high status noted - Romans shocked by female property rights, women warriors, queens leading armies
ID: 5390
130 BC
ID: 5396
Arverni control wine trade - most powerful Gallic tribe, King Bituitus displays wealth with silver wine vessels
ID: 5396
47 BC
ID: 2995
Julius Caesar appoints Antipater - Idumean (Herod's father) becomes power behind weak Hyrcanus II
ID: 2995
23 BC
ID: 2719
Second Settlement - Augustus resigns consulship, receives tribunician power for life and imperium maius, constitutional foundation complete
ID: 2719
12 BC
ID: 2725
Augustus becomes Pontifex Maximus - after Lepidus dies, controls state religion, completes power consolidation
ID: 2725
125
ID: 5913
Hadrian receives prophecy - asks about his future, told he'll reach greatest power, oracle at height of 2nd century revival
ID: 5913
680
ID: 2858
Pepin of Herstal becomes mayor of Austrasia - Carolingian family rises, real power shifts from kings to mayors
ID: 2858
1020
ID: 5884
Emma at height of power - queen of England, Denmark, and Norway through Cnut, wealthiest woman in Europe
ID: 5884
1027
ID: 2639
Cnut's pilgrimage to Rome - attends Conrad II's imperial coronation, negotiates for English traders
ID: 2639
1028
ID: 2640
Cnut and the tide (legend) - demonstrates limits of royal power by commanding tide to stop, throne gets wet
ID: 2640
1051
ID: 2572
Godwin family exiled - Edward the Confessor breaks free from Godwin control, Norman influence increases
ID: 2572
1052
ID: 2573
Godwin returns with fleet - forces Edward to restore him, Norman courtiers flee, Godwin power restored
ID: 2573
1152
ID: 191
Eleanor of Aquitaine divorces Louis VII of France, marries Henry II of England - shifts balance of power
ID: 191
1185
ID: 207
First recorded windmill in Yorkshire - wind power spreads across Europe for grain milling
ID: 207
1330
ID: 2431
October 19, 1330
Nottingham Castle coup - Edward III seizes power at age 17, arrests Mortimer through secret tunnel
ID: 2431
1370
ID: 4748
Timur seizes power in Transoxiana - claims descent from Genghis Khan, begins rebuilding Mongol Empire
ID: 4748
1434
ID: 5127
Cosimo de' Medici returns from exile and takes control of Florence - begins 30-year unofficial rule as 'Pater Patriae'
ID: 5127
1560
ID: 5157
Catherine de' Medici becomes Regent of France - rules for son Charles IX, navigates Wars of Religion
ID: 5157
1620
ID: 3468
Francis Bacon's 'Novum Organum' - 'Knowledge is power' - 'We must torture nature's secrets from her' - Rejects final causes (purpose)
ID: 3468
1933
ID: 1400
Hitler comes to power in Germany
ID: 1400
2005
ID: 3114
Angela Merkel becomes German Chancellor - systematic expansion of German influence begins
ID: 3114