Theme
Migration
Movements of communities, households, armies, traders, and political formations across southern Africa.
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Events
1688–1689French Huguenot refugees arrive at the Capec. 1690sTrekboer pastoral expansion emerges beyond the settled districts1713Smallpox epidemic devastates Cape society1755Second major smallpox epidemic1767Third major smallpox epidemicc. 1800Tsonga Delagoa Bay trade intensifiesc. 1815Mfecane or Difaqane begins18201820 British settlers arrive in the eastern Capec. 1823–1837Mzilikazi's migration and formation of the Ndebele polity1824Moshoeshoe consolidates at Thaba Bosiu1835–1840The Great Trek20 October 1836Battle of Vegkopc. 1840Mfecane or Difaqane subsides16 November 1860First indentured Indian labourers arrive in Natal1861–1863Adam Kok III leads the Griqua trek to Nomanslandc. 1890Colonial reordering of the Tsonga hinterland11–26 May 2008Xenophobic violence