- — Oceania:
Sandalwood traders and missionaries arrive
From the 1840s sandalwood traders and Christian missionaries — Protestant and, from 1843, French Catholic Marists — established themselves among the Kanak, bringing trade goods, conversion, firearms and epidemic disease.
Era: Cook, Sandalwood and Blackbirding
Sources: New Caledonia — History · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Africa:
Swahili-Arab traders reach Buganda
A caravan led by Ahmed bin Ibrahim reaches the court of Kabaka Suna II, opening Buganda to the Zanzibar-based ivory and slave trade and to Islam.
Era: Traders, Missionaries and the Uganda Martyrs
Sources: Guns and ivory: How Arab traders uncovered the heartbeat of Africa · Daily Monitor, White Fathers, Islam and Kiswahili in Nineteenth-Century Uganda · Asian and African Studies (V. Vilhanová)
- — Africa:
Livingstone founds Kolobeng
David Livingstone establishes the Kolobeng mission among the Bakwena near Kgosi Sechele, his only church and the source of his single convert.
Era: Missionaries, Boers and Mounting Pressure
Sources: History of Botswana · Wikipedia
Religion in the 1840s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged religion — faiths, institutions and religious change, narrowed to the 1840s — 3 of them, drawn from 3 nations, running from 1840 to 1845. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 3
- Nations
- 3
- Earliest
- 1840
- Latest
- 1845
- Africa
- 2
- Oceania
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.