18 events with tag "women"
700 BC
ID: 5419
Roman law forbids women drinking wine - punishable by death, husbands can kill wives for wine drinking (ius osculi - right of kiss to detect)
ID: 5419
500 BC
ID: 5951
Maenads tear apart men - women in Dionysian frenzy reportedly dismember Pentheus of Thebes, drink wine, handle snakes, eat raw flesh
ID: 5951
431 BC
ID: 252
Euripides presents Medea - psychological realism, woman's revenge, questions traditional values
ID: 252
200 BC
ID: 5390
Celtic women's high status noted - Romans shocked by female property rights, women warriors, queens leading armies
ID: 5390
102 BC
ID: 5930
Cimbri women fight from wagon fort - after men defeated, women kill children and themselves rather than slavery, fight with same ferocity as men
ID: 5930
60
ID: 2524
Boudica's Rebellion begins - Iceni queen leads uprising after Romans flog her and rape daughters, burns Camulodunum, Londinium, and Verulamium
ID: 2524
1141
ID: 219
Hildegard of Bingen begins recording visions - 'The Living Light' speaks through her
ID: 219
1150
ID: 220
Hildegard of Bingen writes medical texts - Physica and Causae et Curae, holistic healing
ID: 220
1160
ID: 5272
Countess of Die composes cansos - most famous trobairitz (female troubadour), writes passionate love songs from woman's perspective
ID: 5272
1534
ID: 3537
St. Angela Merici founds Ursulines - first teaching order of women - 'Disorder in society is the result of disorder in the family'
ID: 3537
1552
ID: 5559
Siege of Eger - 2,000 defenders including women defeat 40,000 Ottomans, becoming national legend
ID: 5559
1700
ID: 5731
Most Asian societies prohibit women from smoking tobacco - creates gendered smoking culture that persists centuries
ID: 5731
1786
ID: 622
Caroline Herschel becomes first woman to discover comet using mathematical orbital calculations
ID: 622
1792
ID: 647
Mary Wollstonecraft Vindication of Rights of Woman - applies but critiques Rousseau on women
ID: 647
1920
ID: 4288
Over 500,000 women work as typists and stenographers in U.S. - typewriter enables women's entry into office work
ID: 4288
1970
ID: 4962
September 27, 1970
Pope Paul VI declares St. Teresa of Ávila and St. Catherine of Siena first women Doctors of the Church
ID: 4962
1997
ID: 4963
October 19, 1997
Pope John Paul II declares St. Thérèse of Lisieux Doctor of the Church - third woman Doctor
ID: 4963
2012
ID: 4991
October 7, 2012
Pope Benedict XVI declares St. Hildegard of Bingen Doctor of the Church - fourth woman Doctor
ID: 4991