CatastropheThe 1870s

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.

  1. — Oceania:

    Vanuatu

    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

  2. — Oceania:

    Fiji

    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