- — Africa:
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
- — Africa:
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
- — Africa:
- — Europe:
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
- — Oceania:
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
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.