Peoples & MigrationThe 1840s

Peoples & Migration in the 1840s

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 1840s — 3 of them, drawn from 3 nations, running from 1845 to 1847. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
3
Nations
3
Earliest
1845
Latest
1847
North America
2
Europe
1

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

  1. North America

    Trinidad and Tobago

    Arrival of the Fatel Razack

    The ship Fatel Razack landed the first indentured Indian labourers in Trinidad; over 147,000 Indians would arrive under indenture by 1917, transforming the colony's population and culture.

    Era: Indenture, oil, and one colony

    Sources: Indian Arrival Day · National Library and Information System Authority (NALIS), Trinidad and Tobago, The beginning of Indian Indentureship in Trinidad · National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago

  2. Europe

    Sweden

    The great emigration to America

    Driven by rural poverty and population growth, roughly 1.3 million Swedes emigrated, chiefly to the United States, in one of the largest population movements of the age, reshaping Swedish society at home.

    Era: Loss of Finland, Union with Norway and the Birth of Neutrality

    Sources: The Swedes (Scandinavian immigration) · Library of Congress

  3. North America

    Belize

    Caste War refugees swell the population

    The Caste War of Yucatán drove thousands of Maya and Spanish-speaking Mestizo refugees into the colony's north and west, adding to the Creole and Garifuna populations and deepening Belize's plural society.

    Era: British Honduras and a plural society

    Sources: History of Belize · Encyclopædia Britannica, Guyana and Belize: Country Studies (Federal Research Division) · Library of Congress