government
British / imperial
Initial entity stub generated from the nineteenth-century event dataset.
In this family
- 1820 British settlers
- Bechuanaland Protectorate
- British Cape Colony
- British mining capital
- British South Africa Company
- Colonial Administrations
- English Crown
- English East India Company
- English Mariners
- French Aligned Interests
- French Military Forces
- Griqualand West
- Mining capital
- Natal Colony
- Port Natal traders
- Royal Navy
- Uitlanders
Events
18 June 1580Francis Drake rounds the Cape1590sEnglish and Dutch ships begin calling regularly at Table Bay1590sKhoekhoe communities trade livestock and goods with foreign marinersLate sixteenth centuryThe Cape becomes a recurrent provisioning node on the route to Asia1 August 1591James Lancaster barters livestock with Khoekhoe at Table Bay1 November 1601James Lancaster's East India Company fleet rounds the Cape1605English sailors make an early attempt to claim the Cape1615Attempt to leave English convicts at the Cape fails1619Anglo-Dutch joint settlement at the Cape is proposedJune 1620English captains proclaim Table Bay for King James I1631Autshumato taken to Batavia and trained as an intermediary1781–1783French-supported defence build-up transforms Cape fortifications11 June 1795British fleet arrives in False Bay7 August 1795Battle of Muizenberg16 September 1795Cape capitulates to Britain1799–1803Third Frontier War25 March 1802Treaty of Amiens21 February 1803–8 January 1806Batavian Republic assumes control of the Cape8 January 1806Battle of Blaauwberg and the second British occupation of the Cape1 November 1809Caledon Code promulgated1811–1812Fourth Frontier War6 August 1813Cape loan places become eligible for perpetual quitrent13 August 1814Cape formally ceded to Britain1818–1819Fifth Frontier War and the attack on Grahamstown22 April 1819Makhanda (Nxele) leads the attack on Grahamstown18201820 British settlers arrive in the eastern Cape1828Ordinance 50 repeals key Khoikhoi labour restrictions1829Kat River Settlement established1834–1835Sixth Frontier War1 December 1834Slavery abolished in the Cape1835Hintsa killed during the Sixth Frontier War1835–1840The Great Trekc. 1840–1865Swazi kingdom expands and consolidates under Mswati II1842–1843Siege of Congella and British annexation of Natal1846–1847Seventh Frontier War (War of the Axe)3 February–29 August 1848Orange River Sovereignty proclaimed and Battle of Boomplaats fought1850–1853Eighth Frontier War17 January 1852Sand River Convention23 February 1854Bloemfontein Convention1856–1857Xhosa Cattle-Killingc. 1860–1898Venda polities and the Soutpansberg conflicts16 November 1860First indentured Indian labourers arrive in Natal1861–1863Adam Kok III leads the Griqua trek to Nomansland1865–1868Seqiti War and the later Basotho Wars13 October 1867First recorded colonial-period diamond discovery12 March 1868Basutoland placed under British protection27 October 1871Griqualand West proclaimed British territory1877–1878Ninth Frontier War12 April 1877British annexation of the TransvaalJanuary–July 1879Anglo-Zulu War2 December 1879Sekhukhune captured after the Anglo-Pedi War1880–1881First Anglo-Boer War3 August 1881Pretoria Convention2 September 1882Kimberley introduces electric street lighting1883–1888Dinuzulu and the Zulu civil conflict1885Bechuanaland Protectorate established28 November 1885Cape railway reaches Kimberley1886Main Witwatersrand gold rush beginsOctober 1886Johannesburg founded1887Zululand annexed by Britain30 October 1888Rudd Concession signed with Lobengula1890Pioneer Column occupies Mashonaland and founds Salisburyc. 1890Colonial reordering of the Tsonga hinterland1893–1894First Matabele War1894Glen Grey Act29 December 1895–2 January 1896Jameson Raid11 October 1899–31 May 1902South African War31 May 1902Treaty of VereenigingJune 1902Post-war reconstruction begins1906Bambatha Rebellion1906Gandhi and Natal Indian passive resistance begins12 October 1908–11 May 1909National Convention20 September 1909South Africa Act1911Mines and Works Act entrenches the colour bar30 June 1914Gandhi–Smuts agreement and Gandhi's departure