Horror in the Congo: The Nightmare Begins (TRIH eps 538-540)
1874–1904 · Resource
A three-part series on King Leopold II's Congo Free State: the real history behind Heart of Darkness, the system of extraction and its crimes, and Edmund Morel and Roger Casement's campaign to expose them.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1874
- Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Scramble for Africa (1881)
- German unification (1871)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Bismarck's chancellorship (1871)
- Founding of the German Empire (1871)