- South America
Mass European immigration
Some four million immigrants, chiefly Italians and Spaniards, arrive to settle and work the land, so that by 1914 nearly a third of Argentines are foreign-born.
Era: Civil Wars, Unification and the Liberal Republic
Sources: Argentina · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Great European immigration wave to Argentina · Wikipedia
- Asia
First waves of Zionist immigration
From the 1880s organised Jewish immigration (the aliyot) began establishing agricultural colonies in Ottoman Palestine, driven by persecution in Europe and an emerging national idea.
Era: Ottoman Palestine
Sources: Palestine - region, history · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem, Part I (1917-1947) · United Nations
- South America
A self-supporting wool colony
By 1885 a British community of some 1,800 people on the islands was self-supporting, sustained mainly by sheep farming and wool exports.
Era: The Pastoral Colony of Sheep and Wool
Sources: Falkland Islands — History · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- South America
Peoples & Migration in the 1880s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 1880s — 4 of them, drawn from 4 nations, running from 1880 to 1888. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 4
- Nations
- 4
- Earliest
- 1880
- Latest
- 1888
- South America
- 3
- Asia
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.