- — South America:
Death of Lopez at Cerro Cora
Brazilian troops kill Francisco Solano Lopez at Cerro Cora, ending the war; Paraguay has lost territory and a vast, disputed share of its population (figures are estimates).
Era: The War of the Triple Alliance
Sources: War of the Triple Alliance · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Francisco Solano Lopez · Encyclopaedia Britannica, History of Paraguay · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Europe:
The capture of Rome
Italian troops breached the walls at the Porta Pia and took Rome, ending more than a thousand years of papal temporal rule and completing the unification of Italy.
Era: The Loss of Rome and the Roman Question
Sources: Italy: The acquisition of Venetia and Rome · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Roman question · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Africa:
The Mokrani (Kabyle) revolt
A major uprising in Kabylia is crushed, followed by further confiscations of land that deepen the dispossession of the Muslim population.
Era: French Conquest and Settler Colony
Sources: History of Algeria · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Africa:
British expedition burns Kumasi
In the third Anglo-Asante war a British force advanced inland and burned the Asante capital at Kumasi, marking a decisive shift of power toward Britain on the Gold Coast.
Era: The Asante Empire and the Golden Stool
Sources: The Anglo-Ashanti Wars (1823–1900) · BlackPast.org, Ghana (country overview and history) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Europe:
Herzegovinian uprising and the Eastern Crisis
A peasant revolt in Herzegovina widened into a great-power crisis over the 'Eastern Question', ending Ottoman rule and leading to Austro-Hungarian occupation in 1878.
Era: Ottoman Bosnia and the Making of a Multi-Confessional Land
Sources: Bosnia and Herzegovina: History · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Ottoman Bosnia · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Europe:
The April Uprising and the 'Bulgarian Horrors'
A rising organised by Bulgarian revolutionaries was crushed with massacres of civilians at Batak and elsewhere; reported across Europe as the 'Bulgarian Horrors', it inflamed opinion and helped precipitate the Russo-Turkish War.
Era: Ottoman Rule and the National Revival
Sources: Bulgarian Revolt Against the Ottoman Empire · EBSCO Research Starters, Treaty of San Stefano · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Asia:
Second Anglo-Afghan War and the Treaty of Gandamak
Britain invades again over fears of Russian influence; the 1879 Treaty of Gandamak gives Britain control of Afghan foreign affairs in return for subsidy and protection.
Era: The Durrani Empire and the Great Game
Sources: Anglo-Afghan Wars — History, Significance & Facts · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — South America:
The Conquest of the Desert
Military campaigns led by Julio Argentino Roca seize the Pampas and northern Patagonia from the Mapuche and other peoples through killing, subjugation and displacement.
Era: Civil Wars, Unification and the Liberal Republic
Sources: Argentina · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Oceania:
The revolt of Ataï
The high chief Ataï led a major Kanak insurrection against land dispossession; the rising killed about 200 colonists and gendarmes and was crushed at the cost of roughly a thousand Kanak lives, with Ataï killed and his head sent to Paris.
Era: Annexation, the Bagne and Nickel
Sources: New Caledonia — History · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — South America:
War of the Pacific
Chile defeats Bolivia and its ally Peru and annexes Bolivia's coast; Bolivia loses its Pacific province of Antofagasta and becomes landlocked.
Era: Lost Wars, the Sea, and the Tin Republic
Sources: War of the Pacific · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Bolivia: A Country Study · Library of Congress, Federal Research Division
- — South America:
The War of the Pacific
A dispute over nitrate taxes leads Chile to war with Peru and Bolivia; Chilean victories win the nitrate-rich Atacama and leave Bolivia landlocked.
Era: The Nitrate Age and the Twentieth Century
Sources: War of the Pacific · Encyclopaedia Britannica, History of Chile · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — South America:
War of the Pacific
Allied with Bolivia, Peru fights Chile over the nitrate-rich Atacama; Chilean forces occupy Lima in 1881 and Peru is defeated.
Era: The Young Republic and the War of the Pacific
Sources: War of the Pacific · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Peru: History · Encyclopaedia Britannica
War & Rupture in the 1870s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged war and rupture — wars, invasions, conquests, battles and armed conflict, narrowed to the 1870s — 12 of them, drawn from 12 nations, running from 1870 to 1879. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 12
- Nations
- 12
- Earliest
- 1870
- Latest
- 1879
- South America
- 5
- Europe
- 3
- Africa
- 2
- Asia
- 1
- Oceania
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.