MozambiqueandAND⤬THE JUNCTION
3 SHARED EVENTSMalawi

Entangled histories

3 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · MOZ LEFT · MWI RIGHT

1. c. 17th century

   The Maravi Empire at its peak

   In the seventeenth century the confederacy administered a broad domain reaching across parts of modern Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia, trading ivory and iron with Portuguese and Swahili merchants on the coast.

   Economy & Trade · from the Malawi chronicle · The Maravi Confederacy · REFS 3 — Maravi Confederacy, Maravi, The Kingdom of Maravi

2. c. 1820s–1850s

   Ngoni and Yao migrations reshape the region

   Ngoni warrior bands fleeing the Mfecane settled around Lake Nyasa, while the Yao migrated from northern Mozambique and the Tumbuka occupied the northern highlands, overlaying new peoples on the older Chewa chiefdoms.

   Peoples & Migration · from the Malawi chronicle · Migrations, missionaries and the slave trade · REFS 2 — Malawi (country overview and history), History of Malawi

3. February 1915

   Chilembwe killed

   John Chilembwe was shot dead as he fled toward Mozambique; though the rising failed, he became an enduring symbol of Malawian nationalism and is honoured as a national martyr.

   Politics & Power · from the Malawi chronicle · Protectorate, Nyasaland and the Chilembwe rising · REFS 2 — John Chilembwe, John Chilembwe (ca. 1871–1915)