Peoples & MigrationThe 1830s

Peoples & Migration in the 1830s

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 1830s — 6 of them, drawn from 6 nations, running from 1834 to 1838. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
6
Nations
6
Earliest
1834
Latest
1838
Africa
4
North America
1
South America
1

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

  1. Africa

    Mauritius

    Indian indenture and the Aapravasi Ghat

    Around half a million indentured labourers from India arrive through the Port Louis depot, the 'Great Experiment', reshaping the island's population.

    Era: British Mauritius: Abolition & Indenture

    Sources: Aapravasi Ghat · Encyclopædia Britannica, Aapravasi Ghat (World Heritage List) · UNESCO World Heritage Centre

  2. Africa

    Zambia

    Ngoni incursions from the south

    Ngoni warbands driven north by the upheavals of the Mfecane crossed the Zambezi under leaders such as Zwangendaba, raiding and absorbing peoples and settling in the east of the region.

    Era: Upheaval, the slave trade and Livingstone

    Sources: History of Zambia · Wikipedia, History of Zambia · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  3. Africa

    South Africa

    The Great Trek

    Thousands of Voortrekkers left the Cape Colony for the interior, seeking independence from British rule and founding new Boer communities on lands occupied by African peoples.

    Era: British rule, the Mfecane, the Zulu kingdom and the Boer republics

    Sources: Origins of the Battle of Blood River 1838 · South African History Online, South Africa (country, history and government) · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  4. South America

    Guyana

    Emancipation and Indian indenture

    Full emancipation takes effect on 1 August 1838; the first indentured labourers from India arrive on 5 May 1838, beginning decades of immigration that reshape the colony's population.

    Era: British Guiana: Emancipation and Indenture

    Sources: Guyana — History (Colonialism, Independence, Culture) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Guyana and Belize: Country Studies · U.S. Library of Congress, Federal Research Division

  5. North America

    United States

    Trail of Tears

    Under the Indian Removal Act, the United States forcibly marched the Cherokee and other southeastern nations west of the Mississippi; thousands died en route.

    Era: Expansion, slavery, and the Civil War

    Sources: Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation; U.S. History Collections · Library of Congress

  6. Africa

    Zimbabwe

    The Ndebele settle the south-west

    Mzilikazi led the Ndebele north during the Mfecane and established a centralised military kingdom around Bulawayo, dominating the south-western plateau and its Shona inhabitants.

    Era: The Ndebele kingdom and British conquest

    Sources: Mzilikazi · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Lobengula · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Zimbabwe: History · Encyclopaedia Britannica