- — 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.