- — Europe:
Proclamation of the German Empire
Following victory in the Franco-Prussian War, the German states united as the German Empire, proclaimed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles with Wilhelm I as Emperor and Bismarck as Chancellor.
Era: Prussia, Fragmentation and the Road to Unity
Sources: Proclamation of the German Empire, 1871 · Château de Versailles, Germany · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Africa:
Samori proclaims the Wassoulou Empire
Samori Touré declares himself faama of the Wassoulou Empire, the state he has built in the savannas of present-day Upper Guinea and beyond.
Era: Samori Touré and the Resistance to France
Sources: Samori Ture · Wikipedia, Guinea — History · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Europe:
The League of Prizren
Albanian leaders founded the League of Prizren in Kosovo, the first Albanian nationalist organisation, seeking to unite Albanian-inhabited lands and promote the Albanian language amid the Congress of Berlin's partition plans.
Era: Ottoman Rule and the Albanian National Awakening
Sources: Albanian League (League of Prizren, 1878) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
Formation in the 1870s
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 1870s — 3 of them, drawn from 3 nations, running from 1871 to 1878. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 3
- Nations
- 3
- Earliest
- 1871
- Latest
- 1878
- Europe
- 2
- Africa
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.