Events Tagged: "prohibition"

Roman law forbids women drinking wine - punishable by death, husbands can kill wives for wine drinking (ius osculi - right of kiss to detect)

Rome bans wine export across Alps - attempts to prevent barbarian invasions by keeping Celts from wine, widely ignored by merchants

Most Asian societies prohibit women from smoking tobacco - creates gendered smoking culture that persists centuries

Temperance movement targets apple cider - hard cider seen as gateway to alcoholism, orchards begin being destroyed

Prohibition destroys American cider tradition - FBI burns countless orchards, cider-making knowledge lost

Boland Amendment prohibits military Contra aid; North becomes NSC deputy director