Alex Peek blog

List of posts    Blog archive    About

Monday, June 28, 2021

Basic timeline of South Africa

This post is a basic timeline of South Africa. There are 22 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• First humans (125,000 years ago)
• Bantu culture arrives (300 AD)
• Bartolomeu Dias and Portugal arrive (1488)
• Dutch East India company arrives at Cape Town (1652)
• Xhosa Wars (1779-1879)
• British invasion of Cape Colony (1795)
• British Cape Colony (1806-1910)
• Zulu Kingdom (1816-1897)
• Battle of Blood River (1838)
• Natalia Republic (1839-1843)
• South African Republic (1852-1902)
• Orange Free State (1854-1902)
• Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
• First Boer War (1880-1881)
• Second Boer War (1899-1902)
• Union of South Africa (1910-1961)
• Maritz rebellion (1914-1915)
• Apartheid era (1948-1994)
• South African Border War (1966-1990)
• Soweto uprising (1976)
• Convention for a Democratic South Africa (1990-1993)
• Nelson Mandela is elected President (1994-1999)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of South Africa at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of South Africa.)