- Africa
Migration into central Eswatini
Attacked by the Ndwandwe, Sobhuza I moves his people north and establishes a kingdom centred on the Ezulwini valley, the heartland of the Swazi nation.
Era: The Mfecane and the Making of a Nation
Sources: Sobhuza I · Encyclopaedia Britannica, King Sobhuza I · South African History Online
- Africa
Ngoni and Yao migrations reshape the region
Ngoni warrior bands fleeing the Mfecane settled around Lake Nyasa, while the Yao migrated from northern Mozambique and the Tumbuka occupied the northern highlands, overlaying new peoples on the older Chewa chiefdoms.
Era: Migrations, missionaries and the slave trade
Sources: Malawi (country overview and history) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, History of Malawi · Wikipedia
- Africa
Jonker Afrikaner and the Orlam
Jonker Afrikaner led his Orlam followers north into the central highlands, founding a settlement at Windhoek around 1840 and building a mounted, gun-armed state that dominated the interior until 1861.
Era: The desert coast, the Orlam migration and the Nama polities
Sources: Jonker Afrikaner · Wikipedia, History of Namibia · Wikipedia
- Africa
Soshangane founds the Gaza Empire
Nguni warriors fleeing the upheavals of the Mfecane, led by Soshangane, conquer much of southern Mozambique and establish the Gaza Empire.
Era: Prazos, the Gaza Empire and Conquest
Sources: Gaza Empire · Wikipedia, Gungunhana · Wikipedia
Peoples & Migration in the 1820s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 1820s — 4 of them, drawn from 4 nations, running from 1820 to 1824. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 4
- Nations
- 4
- Earliest
- 1820
- Latest
- 1824
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.