Argentina: The Welsh Colony (TRIH ep 275)
1865 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook explore the little-known history of the Welsh settlement in Argentine Patagonia. They trace the episode from Ferdinand Magellan's 1520 naming of Patagonia through the 19th-century decision by Welsh nationalists, led by Michael Jones, to establish a Welsh colony (Y Wladfa) in 1865.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1865
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Bismarck's chancellorship (1871)