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South Africa

By Maria Lysgaard
  • Period: Nov 21, 1400 to

    South Africa

  • Nov 21, 1480

    The first European travel to South Africa.

  • Jan van Riebeeck representing the Dutch East India Company.

    Jan van Riebeeck, representing the Dutch East India Company, founds the Cape Colony at Table Bay.

  • British forces seize Cape Colony

    British forces seize Cape Colony from the Netherlands. Territory is returned to the Dutch in 1803; ceded to the British in 1806.

  • Diamonds discovered at Kimberley.

  • Boers rebel against the British

    Boers rebel against the British, sparking the first Anglo-Boer War. Conflict ends with a negotiated peace. Transvaal is restored as a republic.

  • Formation of Union of SA by former British colonies

    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.

  • Brotherhood

    Secret Broederbond (brotherhood) established to advance the Afrikaner cause.

  • South west Africa change

    South West Africa (Namibia) comes under South African administration.

  • Apartheid set in law

    Policy of apartheid (separateness) adopted when National Party (NP) takes power.

  • Gold is discovered in the Transvaal

    Gold is discovered in the Transvaal, triggering the gold rush.