africa

By aaron200
  • Period: Jan 1, 1500 to

    events in africa

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    jan van rienbeek was representing the dutch east india company found the cape colony a table bay also the dutch settlement of south africa starts

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    the dutch import slaves from angola and west africa

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    khoikhoi revolts against Dutch encroachment

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    european settlement at Saldanha Bay

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    warfare between Khoikhoi and Dutch

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    warefare ends

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    french Huguenots begin to settle at Cape

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    smallpox epidemic devastates Khoikhoi

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    frontier warfare Afrikaners defeat Xhosa

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    Frontier warfare Xhosa defeat Afrikaners

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    Britain seizes control of the Cape

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    First of a series of Xhosa-British wars.

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    Shaka Zulu founds and expands the Zulu empire

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    expansion ends

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    The Boers leave Cape Colony and found the Orange Free State and the Transvaal

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    Boers proclaim the Transvaal a republic

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    Diamonds discovered at Kimberley

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    The British and the Boers defeat the Zulus

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    The Boer War and Boers rebel against the British

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    The gold rush

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    Formation of Union of South Africa by former British colonies of the Cape and Natal, and the Boer republics of Transvaal, and Orange Free State

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    Land Act introduced preventing Blacks from purchasing land

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    Policy of apartheid adopted by the National Party (NP)

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    Group Areas Act passed to segregate black and white people