Peoples & MigrationThe 1880s

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.

  1. South America

    Argentina

    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

  2. Asia

    Palestine

    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

  3. South America

    Falkland Islands

    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

  4. South America

    Brazil

    Mass immigration

    Millions of immigrants, especially Italians, Portuguese, Spaniards, and Japanese, arrive to work coffee and settle the south, reshaping Brazilian society.

    Era: The Old Republic

    Sources: Brazil · Encyclopaedia Britannica