- South America
End of Indian indenture
Indentured immigration from India is brought to a close after some 250,000 people have come to British Guiana, leaving Indo-Guyanese the colony's largest ethnic group.
Era: British Guiana: Emancipation and Indenture
Sources: Guyana and Belize: Country Studies · U.S. Library of Congress, Federal Research Division, Guyana — History (Colonialism, Independence, Culture) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- North America
End of Indian indentureship
The indentured labour system was abolished in 1917, by which time roughly 147,000 Indians had come to Trinidad, the majority remaining to build the Indo-Trinidadian community.
Era: Indenture, oil, and one colony
Sources: The beginning of Indian Indentureship in Trinidad · National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago, Indian Arrival Day · National Library and Information System Authority (NALIS), Trinidad and Tobago
Peoples & Migration in the 1910s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 1910s — 2 of them, drawn from 2 nations, all of it in 1917. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 2
- Nations
- 2
- Earliest
- 1917
- Latest
- 1917
- 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.