- — Oceania:
Treaty of Waitangi signed
The Crown and Māori rangatira signed the Treaty of Waitangi, founding British New Zealand; its differing English and Māori texts — over sovereignty versus governorship — left a meaning contested to this day.
Era: The Treaty of Waitangi, the New Zealand Wars, and confiscation
Sources: Differences between the texts of the Treaty of Waitangi · NZ History (Manatū Taonga — Ministry for Culture and Heritage), Te Tiriti o Waitangi — the Treaty of Waitangi · Te Ara — The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, New Zealand (country) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — North America:
El Salvador becomes sovereign
As the federation dissolves amid civil war, El Salvador assumes fully sovereign powers as a separate republic and adopts its modern name.
Era: Independence and the Coffee Republic
Sources: Central America: Independence, 1808-23 · Encyclopaedia Britannica, El Salvador, Countries · U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian
- — Africa:
Libreville founded for freed slaves
Freed captives taken from a slave ship seized by the French navy were settled on the estuary in 1849; the settlement was named Libreville, "free town," and became the colonial and modern capital.
Era: Libreville, Brazza, and French conquest
Sources: Libreville · Wikipedia, History of Gabon · Encyclopædia Britannica, History of Gabon · Wikipedia
Formation in the 1840s
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 1840s — 3 of them, drawn from 3 nations, running from 1840 to 1849. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 3
- Nations
- 3
- Earliest
- 1840
- Latest
- 1849
- Africa
- 1
- North America
- 1
- Oceania
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.