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. The hosts recount the difficult early years — inadequate agricultural skills, floods and deaths — and how contact with indigenous Tehuelche people, irrigation works and later...
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Around 1865
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- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Founding of the German Empire (1871)
- British Raj (1858)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)