south africa

By hockeyman43
  • Period: Apr 5, 1450 to

    Approximately 11 million slaves shipped from Africa, ca

  • Dutch West India Co. supplants Portuguese in West Africa, ca

    Dutch West India Co. supplants Portuguese in West Africa, ca

  • Dutch settle Cape Town

  • Dutch found Cape Colony,

  • Dutch found Cape Colony

  • Rise of Ashanti, West Africa

  • Period: to

    Rise of Ashanti Empire, founded on Gold Coast trade, ca

  • Period: to

    Decline of the Safavid Empire under Nadi Shah

  • Period: to

    Sultan Selim III introduces administrative and military reforms,

  • British seize Cape Town

  • Napoleon's campaign in Egypt

  • Period: to

    Muhammad Ali founds dynasty in Egypt

  • Slavery abolished in British Empire

  • Peak year of African transatlantic slave trade

  • Period: to

    Crimean War, 1853-1856

  • Suez Canal opens

  • Period: to

    Europeans intensify "scramble for Africa,"

  • Battle of Omdurman

  • Period: to

    Boer War

  • Union of South Africa formed

  • South African Native National Congress

  • French annex Morocco

  • African resistance movements; Herero revolts

  • Treaty of Sevres dissolves Ottoman Empire

  • Algerian revolution

  • African independence

  • Iranian Revolution

  • Universal suffrage in South Africa