- — Africa:
Fourah Bay College founded
The Church Missionary Society founded Fourah Bay College in Freetown, the first Western-style university in sub-Saharan Africa, helping earn the city the name 'the Athens of West Africa'.
Era: Crown Colony, Liberated Africans, and the Krio
Sources: Fourah Bay College (1827– ) · BlackPast.org, Fourah Bay College · Wikipedia
Culture & Ideas in the 1820s
One event in the Terralore archive falls in the 1820s, tagged culture and ideas — art, language, science and learning. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
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- Earliest
- 1827
- Latest
- 1827
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.