- — Oceania:
Gold on the Mambare
A strike on the Mambare River brings a gold rush and with it hostilities between miners and the people whose land they worked.
Era: European contact and colonial partition
Sources: Papua New Guinea country profile · BBC News
- — Africa:
The Uganda Railway is built
The railway is driven from Mombasa to Kisumu on Lake Victoria by some 32,000 indentured Indian labourers, binding Uganda to the coast and bringing a lasting South Asian presence.
Era: The Uganda Protectorate
Sources: Uganda Railway · Wikipedia, History of the Uganda Railway · Daily Monitor
- — Africa:
Franco-Ethiopian Railway begun
Construction starts on the railway from the port of Djibouti toward the Ethiopian interior, the project that will define the colony's economy.
Era: The Railway and the Colony of French Somaliland
Sources: Ethio-Djibouti Railways · Wikipedia, Djibouti (country and history) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Africa:
Concessionary companies take over
France leased huge tracts of Ubangi-Shari to private companies such as the Company of the Upper Ubangi Sultanates, whose militias exacted rubber and ivory through brutal forced labour.
Era: Conquest and the Concession Regime
Sources: French Equatorial Africa · Wikipedia, Company of the Upper Ubangi Sultanates · Wikipedia, The Economic History of the Central African Republic · Yaw Boadu (Substack)
- — North America:
Rise of the fruit companies
U.S. firms, foremost United Fruit and Standard Fruit, develop the north coast, making bananas Honduras's dominant export.
Era: The Banana Economy and the Original Banana Republic
Sources: Banana republic · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Honduras: History · Encyclopaedia Britannica
Economy & Trade in the 1890s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged economy and trade — trade, currency, industry and resources, narrowed to the 1890s — 5 of them, drawn from 5 nations, running from 1895 to 1899. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 5
- Nations
- 5
- Earliest
- 1895
- Latest
- 1899
- Africa
- 3
- North America
- 1
- Oceania
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.