- Europe
The book smugglers (knygnesiai)
Defying the press ban, a clandestine network of book carriers smuggled Latin-script Lithuanian books across the Prussian frontier, preserving the language and fuelling the national revival.
Era: The Commonwealth, the Partitions and the National Revival
Sources: History of Lithuania · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Africa
King Njoya devises the Bamum script
King Ibrahim Njoya of Bamum and his palace circle created an original writing system, the Bamum script, and the Shumom language, used to record the kingdom's history, laws, and knowledge.
Era: Grassfields kingdoms, the Douala coast and the Fulani north
Sources: Sultan Ibrahim Njoya: A Scholar-King (Bamum Script research guide) · Library of Congress, Bamum (people and kingdom) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
Culture & Ideas in the 1890s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged culture and ideas — art, language, science and learning, narrowed to the 1890s — 2 of them, drawn from 2 nations, running from 1890 to 1895. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 2
- Nations
- 2
- Earliest
- 1890
- Latest
- 1895
- Africa
- 1
- Europe
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.