14 events with tag "scandal"
415 BC
ID: 5952
Alcibiades accused of profaning Mysteries - drunkenly mocks Eleusinian rites at party, flees Athens, sentenced to death in absentia
ID: 5952
186 BC
ID: 5422
Bacchanalia suppressed - Senate bans Bacchic mysteries after reports of orgies and conspiracy, 7000 executed
ID: 5422
62 BC
ID: 5955
Clodius profanes Bona Dea mysteries - dressed as woman to seduce Caesar's wife at women-only rites, Caesar divorces wife ('Caesar's wife must be above suspicion')
ID: 5955
2
ID: 2729
Julia the Elder exiled - Augustus's daughter banished for adultery, victim of her father's own moral laws
ID: 2729
1092
ID: 5186
Philip I 'abducts' Bertrade de Montfort - abandons wife for Count of Anjou's wife, excommunicated for bigamy
ID: 5186
1108
ID: 5188
July 29, 1108
Death of Philip I - dies at Melun, Louis VI the Fat becomes king, begins royal revival
ID: 5188
1115
ID: 180
Peter Abelard begins teaching Heloise - their tragic love affair will shake Paris, she becomes greatest woman scholar
ID: 180
1203
ID: 2388
Murder of Arthur of Brittany - John allegedly kills his nephew with his own hands at Rouen, turns barons against him
ID: 2388
1308
ID: 2421
February 25, 1308
Edward II's coronation - Piers Gaveston carries crown, causing outrage among barons
ID: 2421
1314
ID: 5232
Tour de Nesle scandal - Philip IV's three daughters-in-law accused of adultery, two lovers executed, princesses imprisoned
ID: 5232
1464
ID: 2499
May 1, 1464
Edward IV secretly marries Elizabeth Woodville - widow commoner instead of foreign princess, Warwick furious
ID: 2499
1986
ID: 2041
Iran-Contra scandal breaks - exposes German-influenced networks manipulating US policy
ID: 2041
2001
ID: 3070
Enron scandal exposes massive accounting fraud - company collapses despite reports of strong profits
ID: 3070
2018
ID: 3312
Cambridge Analytica scandal reveals power of mathematical behavioral modeling in elections
ID: 3312