Culture & IdeasThe 1950s

Culture & Ideas in the 1950s

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged culture and ideas — art, language, science and learning, narrowed to the 1950s — 6 of them, drawn from 6 nations, running from 1952 to 1959. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
6
Nations
6
Earliest
1952
Latest
1959
Africa
2
South America
2
Asia
1
Europe
1

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. Asia

    Bangladesh

    The Bengali Language Movement

    Students in Dhaka demanding that Bengali be a state language of Pakistan are shot by police; the martyrs become foundational to Bengali nationalism and, later, to UNESCO's International Mother Language Day.

    Era: Partition, East Pakistan and the Language Movement

    Sources: Language Movement · Banglapedia (Asiatic Society of Bangladesh), International Mother Language Day · UNESCO

  2. Europe

    Monaco

    Rainier III marries Grace Kelly

    Prince Rainier III married the American actress Grace Kelly, who became Princess Grace; their union brought the principality international glamour and helped drive its post-war revival.

    Era: Sovereignty Tied to France and the Making of the Modern Principality

    Sources: Rainier III, prince de Monaco · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  3. Africa

    Tunisia

    Code of Personal Status

    Bourguiba's government bans polygamy and expands women's rights, a landmark reform in the Arab world.

    Era: The Republic & the Jasmine Revolution

    Sources: Code of Personal Status in Tunisia · Wikipedia, Habib Bourguiba · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  4. South America

    Colombia

    Garcia Marquez and Macondo

    The journalist and novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez gives literary form to Colombia's history of violence and wonder, later winning the 1982 Nobel Prize.

    Era: La Violencia and the National Front

    Sources: Gabriel Garcia Marquez · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  5. South America

    Ecuador

    Galapagos National Park

    Ecuador declares the Galapagos Islands a national park, the basis of their later inscription as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

    Era: Cacao, Liberals and Bananas

    Sources: History of Galapagos · Galapagos Conservancy, Galapagos Islands · UNESCO World Heritage Centre

  6. Africa

    Tanzania

    Mary Leakey finds the Zinjanthropus skull

    At Olduvai Gorge, Mary Leakey uncovers the robust hominin skull OH 5 (Zinjanthropus / Paranthropus boisei), a landmark in the study of human evolution.

    Era: Cradle of Humankind: Olduvai and Laetoli

    Sources: Olduvai Gorge · Wikipedia, Mary Leakey · Wikipedia