ReligionThe 1830s

Religion in the 1830s

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged religion — faiths, institutions and religious change, narrowed to the 1830s — 5 of them, drawn from 5 nations, running from 1833 to 1839. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
5
Nations
5
Earliest
1833
Latest
1839
Africa
3
Europe
1
Oceania
1

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. Africa

    Lesotho

    Paris missionaries arrive

    Moshoeshoe invites the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society into his kingdom; the missionaries help create a written Sesotho and advise him on dealings with Europeans.

    Era: Moshoeshoe and the Birth of the Basotho

    Sources: Lesotho: The Sotho kingdom (1824–69) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, History of Lesotho · Wikipedia

  2. Africa

    Madagascar

    Ranavalona I bans Christianity

    Fearing foreign influence, the queen proscribes Christian practice; persecution and executions follow over decades.

    Era: The Merina Monarchy

    Sources: Ranavalona I · Wikipedia, Madagascar · Encyclopædia Britannica

  3. Africa

    Libya

    Founding of the Senussi order

    Muhammad ibn Ali al-Senussi founds the Sanusi religious order, which from the 1840s becomes the leading power in Cyrenaica and the eastern Sahara.

    Era: Ottoman Rule and the Karamanli Dynasty

    Sources: al-Sanusi · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Sanusiyya · Wikipedia

  4. Europe

    Belarus

    Suppression of the Uniate Church and Russification

    The Uniate (Greek Catholic) Church was abolished and absorbed into Russian Orthodoxy, part of a sustained imperial policy of Russification that discouraged the Belarusian language and name.

    Era: The Commonwealth, Partition and the Russian Empire

    Sources: History of Belarus · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  5. Oceania

    Vanuatu

    Missionaries arrive; Williams killed at Erromango

    Christian missions began in the islands; the LMS missionary John Williams was killed at Erromango, the first of several martyrdoms as Christianity slowly took hold.

    Era: Sandalwood, Blackbirding and Missions

    Sources: An Archaeology of Early Christianity in Vanuatu (Ch. 2: contact, labour and missions) · ANU Press, Vanuatu — History (Melanesian, Colonization, Independence) · Encyclopædia Britannica