CatastropheThe 1860s

Catastrophe in the 1860s

One event in the Terralore archive falls in the 1860s, tagged catastrophe — plague, famine, earthquake and other disasters. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
1
Nations
1
Earliest
1860
Latest
1860

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

  1. Africa

    South Sudan

    Zariba slave and ivory raids

    Armed traders such as al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur establish fortified zaribas across the south; contemporary estimates put captives taken at tens of thousands a year by the mid-1870s.

    Era: Conquest, Ivory and the Slave Raids

    Sources: History of South Sudan · Wikipedia, Al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur · Wikipedia