- Africa
Umar Tal's Tukulor empire conquers Segou
Al-Hajj Umar Tal, leading the Tijaniyya jihad begun in the 1850s, overthrows the Bambara kingdom of Segou and extends the Tukulor empire across the upper Niger.
Era: Segou, the Tukulor and Samori
Sources: ʿUmar Tal — West African Tukulor Leader & Jihadist · Encyclopædia Britannica, Bamana (Ségou) Empire · Wikipedia
Religion in the 1860s
One event in the Terralore archive falls in the 1860s, tagged religion — faiths, institutions and religious change. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
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- Earliest
- 1861
- Latest
- 1861
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.