Horror in the Congo: The Nightmare Begins (TRIH eps 538-540)
1874 · Resource
Exposing the dark pit of human suffering, cruelty and corruption that had long been secretly festering in King Leopold’s Congo, would reveal one of the greatest abuses of human rights in all history, and instigate a human rights campaign that would change the world. Having established it as what was essentially his own private colonial fiefdom in 1885, Leopold had grown rich off the vast quantities of rubber and ivory that his congolese labourers reaped and transported in unimaginably brutal...
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Around 1874
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- German unification (1871)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Founding of the German Empire (1871)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Franco-Prussian War (1870)
- Lister introduces antiseptic surgery (1865)
- Winston Churchill (1874)