- — Asia:
The Cultivation System
The Dutch impose the Cultuurstelsel, forcing Javanese peasants to grow export crops for the colonial state; it enriches the Netherlands while causing widespread hardship and local famines.
Era: The Dutch East Indies and the National Awakening
Sources: History of Indonesia (Islamic influence; Dutch rule) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Indonesian National Awakening · Wikipedia
- — Africa:
Gamitto's mission to Kazembe
A second Portuguese expedition, led by António Gamitto, visited the Mwata Kazembe, leaving a detailed account of a Lunda state deeply engaged in the regional trade in ivory, copper, and captives.
Era: Kingdoms of the Zambezi and Luapula: Lozi, Bemba, Chewa and Kazembe
Sources: Kazembe (Lunda kingdom of the Luapula) · Wikipedia, Zambia: External contacts and the slave and ivory trade · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Africa:
Mindelo becomes an Atlantic coaling station
The deep harbour of Porto Grande at Mindelo on São Vicente was developed as a coaling station for transatlantic steamships and later a submarine-cable relay, briefly making the port cosmopolitan and prosperous.
Era: Creole culture, the coaling port, and the years of hunger
Sources: History of Cape Verde · Wikipedia, History of Cabo Verde · Encyclopaedia Britannica
Economy & Trade in the 1830s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged economy and trade — trade, currency, industry and resources, narrowed to the 1830s — 3 of them, drawn from 3 nations, running from 1830 to 1839. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 3
- Nations
- 3
- Earliest
- 1830
- Latest
- 1839
- Africa
- 2
- Asia
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.