- — North America:
Sugar-and-slavery boom
Cuba becomes the world's leading sugar producer, importing over 600,000 enslaved Africans; by 1860 it makes nearly a third of the world's sugar.
Era: Spanish Colony: Havana, Sugar, and Slavery
Sources: Cuba: Sugarcane and the growth of slavery · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Africa:
Coffee and cocoa introduced
Coffee and then cocoa, brought from Brazil around the 1820s, were planted on the islands, reviving the plantation economy after the long decline of sugar.
Era: Cocoa, the roças and the 'cocoa slavery' scandal
Sources: History of São Tomé and Príncipe · Wikipedia, São Tomé and Príncipe · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — North America:
The French indemnity
France recognises Haitian independence only in exchange for an indemnity of 150 million francs, burdening Haiti with crippling debt.
Era: Kingdom, Republic, and the Indemnity
Sources: History of Haiti · Encyclopaedia Britannica, La dette de l'indépendance d'Haïti. L'esclave comme unité de compte (1794-1922), by Gusti-Klara Gaillard-Pourchet · Bibliothèque nationale de France, Patrimoines partagés France-Amériques, Déclaration du Président de la République sur la relation entre la France et Haïti (17 April 2025) · Présidence de la République française
Economy & Trade in the 1820s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged economy and trade — trade, currency, industry and resources, narrowed to the 1820s — 3 of them, drawn from 3 nations, running from 1820 to 1825. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 3
- Nations
- 3
- Earliest
- 1820
- Latest
- 1825
- North America
- 2
- Africa
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.