c. 1840
Mfecane or Difaqane subsides
By about 1840 the most intense phase of early-nineteenth-century warfare, migration and polity formation associated with the Mfecane or Difaqane had eased, leaving reconfigured regional states and frontiers.
By about 1840 the most intense phase of early-nineteenth-century warfare, migration and polity formation associated with the Mfecane or Difaqane had eased, leaving reconfigured regional states and frontiers.
Significance
Provides an end-marker for the upheaval and the new political geography that shaped later colonial expansion.
Why it matters
Provides an end-marker for the upheaval and the new political geography that shaped later colonial expansion.
Disputed interpretations
End dates are schematic; local violence and displacement continued unevenly after the conventional c. 1840 horizon.