- — Africa:
Muhammad Ahmad proclaims himself the Mahdi
A religious teacher declares himself the awaited redeemer and launches a holy war against Turco-Egyptian rule.
Era: Turco-Egyptian Rule and the Mahdist Revolt
Sources: Mahdist State · Wikipedia, Battle of Omdurman · Encyclopædia Britannica
- — Africa:
Amadou Bamba founds the Mourides
Cheikh Amadou Bamba establishes the Mouride Sufi brotherhood, later founding the holy city of Touba in 1887 and preaching nonviolence and work.
Era: French Conquest, the Four Communes and the Marabouts
Sources: Amadou Bamba · Wikipedia
- — Africa:
Islam proclaimed state religion; Samori takes the title almami
Samori formally adopts Islam as the religion of his empire and assumes the title of almami, fusing political and religious authority.
Era: Samori Touré and the Resistance to France
Sources: Samori Ture · Wikipedia
- — Africa:
Killing of the Uganda Martyrs
Mwanga II executes some forty-five Catholic and Anglican converts who refuse to renounce their faith; twenty-two Catholic victims were later canonised as saints.
Era: Traders, Missionaries and the Uganda Martyrs
Sources: Martyrs of Uganda · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Uganda Martyrs · Wikipedia
- — Africa:
Martyrdom of Charles Lwanga
Kabaka Mwanga II has Charles Lwanga and a group of Christian pages burned to death at Namugongo, the most notorious episode in the killing of the Uganda Martyrs of 1885–87.
Era: Traders, Missionaries and the Uganda Martyrs
Sources: Martyrs of Uganda · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Uganda Martyrs · Wikipedia
Religion in the 1880s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged religion — faiths, institutions and religious change, narrowed to the 1880s — 5 of them, drawn from 4 nations, running from 1881 to 1886. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 5
- Nations
- 4
- Earliest
- 1881
- Latest
- 1886
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.