Horror in the Congo: The Crimes of Empire (TRIH ep 539, part 2)
1885 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the Congo Free State under King Leopold II, tracing how Leopold turned his personal colonial fiefdom into a profit-driven system of extraction.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1885
- Dreyfus Affair (1894)
- Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
- Scramble for Africa (1881)
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Berlin Conference (1884)
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881)