FormationThe 1820s

Formation in the 1820s

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged formation — origins, unifications and the founding of states as each nation's archive records them, narrowed to the 1820s — 3 of them, drawn from 3 nations, running from 1823 to 1824. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
3
Nations
3
Earliest
1823
Latest
1824
Africa
1
Asia
1
North America
1

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. North America

    Guatemala

    Federal Republic of Central America

    The former captaincy general forms a federation of five states, with Guatemala City as its capital.

    Era: Colony, Independence, and Federation

    Sources: Central America: Independence, 1808-23 · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  2. Africa

    Lesotho

    Moshoeshoe occupies Thaba Bosiu

    Moshoeshoe I settles the defensible mountain of Thaba Bosiu, the stronghold from which he gathers difaqane refugees into the Basotho nation.

    Era: Moshoeshoe and the Birth of the Basotho

    Sources: Lesotho: The Sotho kingdom (1824–69) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Moshoeshoe, founder of Lesotho · Encyclopaedia Britannica, King Moshoeshoe I · South African History Online

  3. Asia

    Saudi Arabia

    Turki ibn Abdullah founds the Second Saudi State

    Turki ibn Abdullah Al Saud expelled the occupying garrisons, re-established Saudi rule, and made Riyadh the capital of a revived but smaller state.

    Era: The First and Second Saudi States and the Al Saud-Wahhab Alliance

    Sources: Second Saudi state · Wikipedia, Second Saudi State · Saudipedia