- — 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.