community
Sotho–Tswana
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Events
c. 1500Bokoni stone-walled landscapes show early settlement developmentc. 1600Madikwe village evidence points to farming, ochre mining and tradec. 1800Tsonga Delagoa Bay trade intensifiesc. 1815Mfecane or Difaqane begins1824Moshoeshoe consolidates at Thaba Bosiu1835–1840The Great Trekc. 1840Mfecane or Difaqane subsides3 February–29 August 1848Orange River Sovereignty proclaimed and Battle of Boomplaats fought1858First Basotho Warc. 1860–1898Venda polities and the Soutpansberg conflicts1865–1868Seqiti War and the later Basotho Wars12 March 1868Basutoland placed under British protection16 May 1876Boer–Pedi war begins2 December 1879Sekhukhune captured after the Anglo-Pedi War1885Bechuanaland Protectorate establishedc. 1890Colonial reordering of the Tsonga hinterland