- Oceania
Depopulation by introduced disease
Measles, dysentery, influenza and other introduced diseases, together with the labour trade, devastated island populations across the colonial period.
Era: Sandalwood, Blackbirding and Missions
Sources: An Archaeology of Early Christianity in Vanuatu (Ch. 2: contact, labour and missions) · ANU Press, Vanuatu — History (Melanesian, Colonization, Independence) · Encyclopædia Britannica
- Oceania
Measles epidemic devastates Fiji
A measles epidemic with no prior immunity kills roughly a quarter of the Fijian population, striking the chiefly class especially hard.
Era: Cession, Colony & the Girmitiyas
Sources: Fiji — History (Melanesian, Colonialism, Independence) · Encyclopædia Britannica
Catastrophe in the 1870s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged catastrophe — plague, famine, earthquake and other disasters, narrowed to the 1870s — 2 of them, drawn from 2 nations, running from 1870 to 1875. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 2
- Nations
- 2
- Earliest
- 1870
- Latest
- 1875
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.