- — Europe:
Ottoman towns of Berat and Gjirokastra
The towns of Berat and Gjirokastra developed the distinctive Ottoman-era urban architecture, including fortified citadels and tall stone houses, that later earned them UNESCO World Heritage status.
Era: Five Centuries of Ottoman Rule and the National Awakening
Sources: Historic Centres of Berat and Gjirokastra · UNESCO World Heritage Centre
- — Europe:
The Struve Geodetic Arc
Five of the surviving station points of the Struve Geodetic Arc, the first accurate measurement of a long meridian segment carried out across the empire between 1816 and 1855, lie in Belarus and are inscribed by UNESCO.
Era: The Commonwealth, Partition and the Russian Empire
Sources: Struve Geodetic Arc · UNESCO World Heritage Centre
- — Africa:
The London Missionary Society arrives
LMS missionaries open schools, render Malagasy in the Latin alphabet and translate the Bible — literacy arrives with a creed attached.
Era: The Merina Monarchy
Sources: Madagascar country profile · BBC News
Culture & Ideas in the 1810s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged culture and ideas — art, language, science and learning, narrowed to the 1810s — 3 of them, drawn from 3 nations, running from 1812 to 1818. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 3
- Nations
- 3
- Earliest
- 1812
- Latest
- 1818
- Europe
- 2
- Africa
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.