colony
Cape Colony
Southern African colony centred on the Cape.
Parent: Dutch / VOC Cape
Initial entity stub generated from the nineteenth-century event dataset.
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Events
21 November 1757Swellendam Khoekhoe herders report armed cattle seizures1778VOC extends eastern boundary to the Fish and Bushmans riversAugust 1788–29 April 1790Jan Paerl leads a Khoekhoe resistance movementMay 1793H. C. D. Maynier becomes landdrost of Graaff-Reinet1795Graaff-Reinet burghers expel Maynier and revolt1795Swellendam declares itself independent of VOC authority11 June 1795British fleet arrives in False Bay16 September 1795Cape capitulates to Britain8 January 1806Battle of Blaauwberg and the second British occupation of the Cape13 August 1814Cape formally ceded to Britain13 October 1867First recorded colonial-period diamond discovery28 November 1885Cape railway reaches Kimberley1894Glen Grey Act11 October 1899–31 May 1902South African War