movement
Voortrekkers & Boer republics
Interior settler republics and Voortrekker polities from the 1830s.
Parent: Cape Settler / Boer / Afrikaner
Tier-1 family for Voortrekkers and Boer republican states; not a vague ethnic “Boers” label.
In this family
Events
1835–1840The Great Trek20 October 1836Battle of Vegkop4–6 February 1838Retief–Dingane deed and the killing of Retief's partyNovember 1838Potchefstroom founded16 December 1838Battle of Blood River1840Mpande becomes Zulu kingc. 1840–1865Swazi kingdom expands and consolidates under Mswati II1842–1843Siege of Congella and British annexation of Natal3 February–29 August 1848Orange River Sovereignty proclaimed and Battle of Boomplaats fought17 January 1852Sand River Convention23 February 1854Bloemfontein Convention1858First Basotho War18 February 1858South African Republic constitution adoptedc. 1860–1898Venda polities and the Soutpansberg conflicts1861–1863Adam Kok III leads the Griqua trek to Nomansland1865–1868Seqiti War and the later Basotho Wars12 March 1868Basutoland placed under British protection27 October 1871Griqualand West proclaimed British territory16 May 1876Boer–Pedi war begins12 April 1877British annexation of the Transvaal1880–1881First Anglo-Boer War3 August 1881Pretoria Convention1885Bechuanaland Protectorate established1886Main Witwatersrand gold rush beginsOctober 1886Johannesburg foundedc. 1890Colonial reordering of the Tsonga hinterland29 December 1895–2 January 1896Jameson Raid11 October 1899–31 May 1902South African War31 May 1902Treaty of Vereeniging