- — North America:
Birth of the steelpan
Musicians in Port of Spain fashioned the steelpan from oil drums after colonial bans on African drumming — the only acoustic instrument invented in the 20th century and now the national instrument.
Era: A modern energy nation
Sources: Steelband · National Library and Information System Authority (NALIS), Trinidad and Tobago
- — Europe:
Socialist Republic of Macedonia and the codified language
A People's (later Socialist) Republic of Macedonia was constituted as one of Yugoslavia's six republics, and a standard Macedonian literary language was codified for the first time.
Era: Partition, 'Vardar Macedonia' and the Yugoslav Republic
Sources: North Macedonia: History (Ancient, Ottoman, Yugoslav) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
Culture & Ideas in the 1940s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged culture and ideas — art, language, science and learning, narrowed to the 1940s — 2 of them, drawn from 2 nations, running from 1940 to 1945. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 2
- Nations
- 2
- Earliest
- 1940
- Latest
- 1945
- Europe
- 1
- North America
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.