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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