- — Africa:
Schweitzer founds the Lambaréné hospital
Albert Schweitzer and his wife Hélène arrived at Lambaréné on the Ogooué in 1913 and founded a hospital near a mission; it treated thousands and made Lambaréné internationally known. Schweitzer received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952.
Era: Colonial Gabon and the road to independence
Sources: Albert Schweitzer · Wikipedia, History of Gabon · Encyclopædia Britannica
Religion in the 1910s
One event in the Terralore archive falls in the 1910s, tagged religion — faiths, institutions and religious change. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 1
- Nations
- 1
- Earliest
- 1913
- Latest
- 1913
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.