- — Africa:
The Gun War
The Basotho rebel against Cape disarmament and taxation; they retain their guns and effectively repudiate Cape authority.
Era: Basutoland: Protectorate and the Gun War
Sources: Gun War (1880–81) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Basuto Gun War · Wikipedia, History of Lesotho · Wikipedia
- — South America:
Pacification of Araucania
After three centuries of independence, the Chilean state subdues the Mapuche south of the Biobio by military campaign and opens their territory to settlement.
Era: The Nitrate Age and the Twentieth Century
Sources: History of Chile · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Araucanian wars · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Africa:
Capture of Kankan
Samori takes control of the major Dyula trading centre of Kankan on the upper Milo, a hub of the kola-nut trade.
Era: Samori Touré and the Resistance to France
Sources: Guinea — History · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Samori Ture · Wikipedia
- — Asia:
Battle of Geok Tepe
General Mikhail Skobelev stormed the Teke Turkmen fortress of Geok Tepe by detonating a mine under its walls; the assault and ensuing massacre of thousands broke Turkmen resistance and secured Russian control of Transcaspia.
Era: The Turkmen Tribes and the Russian Conquest
Sources: Battle of Gök-Tepe · Encyclopædia Britannica, Turkmenistan — Turkmen tribes and Russian invasion · Encyclopædia Britannica
- — Africa:
First Franco-Hova War
France invades and takes Antsiranana (Diego Suarez), the deep northern harbour it had wanted for a generation.
Era: French Conquest & Colony
Sources: Madagascar country profile · BBC News
- — North America:
North-West Resistance and the execution of Riel
Métis and First Nations grievances on the prairies erupted in the North-West Resistance; its defeat and the hanging of Louis Riel deepened the divide between French and English Canada.
Era: Confederation and nation-building across the continent
Sources: Canada · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Africa:
Mahdist revolt and the fall of Khartoum
The Mahdist uprising overruns Sudan and captures Khartoum, ending Turco-Egyptian rule and bringing further upheaval to the southern Nile peoples.
Era: Conquest, Ivory and the Slave Raids
Sources: Anglo-Egyptian Condominium · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Africa:
Fall of Khartoum; death of Gordon
Mahdist forces storm Khartoum after a long siege and kill General Charles Gordon; the Mahdi dies months later.
Era: Turco-Egyptian Rule and the Mahdist Revolt
Sources: Mahdist State · Wikipedia, Siege of Khartoum · Encyclopædia Britannica
War & Rupture in the 1880s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged war and rupture — wars, invasions, conquests, battles and armed conflict, narrowed to the 1880s — 8 of them, drawn from 8 nations, running from 1880 to 1885. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 8
- Nations
- 8
- Earliest
- 1880
- Latest
- 1885
- Africa
- 5
- Asia
- 1
- North America
- 1
- South America
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.