- — Africa:
Sokoto jihad reshapes the Hausa lands
The Sokoto Caliphate's rise to the south drove Hausa rivals such as Gobir and the Katsina rulers northward into present-day Niger, recasting the politics of the southern savanna.
Era: Hausa states, Damagaram and the shadow of Bornu
Sources: History of Niger · Wikipedia, Niger (country) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Africa:
Usman dan Fodio launches his jihad
The Fulani scholar Usman dan Fodio began a jihad in the Hausa lands, rallying followers against the existing rulers and igniting a religious and political revolution across the north.
Era: The Atlantic slave trade and the Sokoto Caliphate
Sources: Sultanate of Sokoto (Sokoto Caliphate): 1804–1903 · BlackPast.org, Usman dan Fodio · Wikipedia
- — Africa:
Modibo Adama founds the Adamawa Emirate
Acting under Usman dan Fodio, the Fulani leader Modibo Adama launched a jihad into Fombina and established the Adamawa Emirate, spreading Islam and Fulani rule across the north as part of the Sokoto Caliphate.
Era: Grassfields kingdoms, the Douala coast and the Fulani north
Sources: Modibo Adama · Wikipedia, Adamawa (traditional emirate) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
Religion in the 1800s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged religion — faiths, institutions and religious change, narrowed to the 1800s — 3 of them, drawn from 3 nations, running from 1804 to 1809. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 3
- Nations
- 3
- Earliest
- 1804
- Latest
- 1809
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.