Timeline 1 of SA history

Question 1

Dias 1st European traveler navigates round souther tip of Africa

Answer 1

1480s

Question 2

Portuguese Vasco da Gama landed on Natal Coast

Answer 2

1497

Question 3

Represents East India Company founded in Cape Colony in 1652

Answer 3

Jan Van Riebeeck

Question 4

British seized cape colony from Netherlands in 1795 and was returned in .. And seized again in 1806

Answer 4

1803

Question 5

..founded and expanded the Zulu empire between 1816 and 1828 –> created a formidable fighting force

Answer 5

Shaka Zulu

Question 6

Left cape colony to embark into a journey “the Great Trek”

Answer 6

Boers

Question 7

They established 2 major settlements

Answer 7

Orange free state

Transvaal

Question 8

Boer rap unlock of Natalia was established

Answer 8

1839

Question 9

Natal was annexed by the British

Answer 9

1843

Question 10

British granted self-government to.. In 1852

Answer 10

Transvaal

Question 11

1854, Boers founded

Answer 11

The Republic of Orange Free State

Question 12

Arrival of thousands of Indian Laborers and traders

Answer 12

1860-1911

Question 13

Diamonds discovered in 1867 in..

Answer 13

Kimberley

Question 14

Britain annexed Transvaal

Answer 14

1877

Question 15

Zulu army defeated the British in the … In Natal.

Answer 15

The battle of Isandlwana

Question 16

Boers rebelled against the British sparkling the 1st Anglo-Boer War ==> the conflict ended with negotiated peace : Transvaal was restored as a Republic

Answer 16

1880-81

Question 17

Gold discovered in Transvaal in mid 1880s triggering the Gold Rush

Answer 17

1886

Question 18

British troops gathered on Transvaal borders –> triggered 2nd Anglo-Boer War.

Answer 18

1899

Question 19

Treaty of Vereeniging ended the 2nd war.

Transvaal and Orange Free State made self-governing colonies of British empire.

Answer 19

1902

Question 20

Bantu migrants from North settled in SA joining Khoisan

Answer 20

4th century