- Africa
Liberian labour treaty for the cocoa plantations
A 1914 treaty brought contract labourers from Liberia to Fernando Pó's cocoa plantations; an ILO inquiry in 1930 found the recruitment had occurred under "criminal compulsion" akin to slave raiding, and the Liberian supply was cut off.
Era: The British base and the Spanish cocoa colony
Sources: Spanish Guinea · Wikipedia, History of Equatorial Guinea · Wikipedia
- North America
Panama Canal opens
After a decade of U.S. construction, the lock canal opens to traffic, joining the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Era: The Canal and the Zone
Sources: Building the Panama Canal, 1903-1914 · U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Panama · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Africa
Railway reaches Addis Ababa
The line is completed to Addis Ababa, giving landlocked Ethiopia its main outlet to the sea and confirming Djibouti as the entrepôt for Ethiopian trade.
Era: The Railway and the Colony of French Somaliland
Sources: Ethio-Djibouti Railways · Wikipedia, 100-year-old Ethiopia's French-built railway remains vital for residents · Africanews, Djibouti (country and history) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
Economy & Trade in the 1910s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged economy and trade — trade, currency, industry and resources, narrowed to the 1910s — 3 of them, drawn from 3 nations, running from 1914 to 1917. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 3
- Nations
- 3
- Earliest
- 1914
- Latest
- 1917
- Africa
- 2
- North America
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.