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| Year | Date | Event | |
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| 1806 | Second British occupation of the Cape | ||
| 1807 | Smallpox | ||
| 1811 | 28 Dec | Fourth Xhosa War begins Massacre at Zuurberg | |
| 1812 | Smallpox. Cape town shunned by the interior | p433 | |
| 1812 | London Missionary Society duped into investigations-denoted as hostile thereafter | p437 | |
| 1815 | Slagters Nek Rebellion | ||
| 1818 | 5th Kafir War begins | ||
| 1820 | 1820 Settlers Influx of British settlers | ||
| 1822 | Somerset's Proclamation of gradual replacement of Dutch language by English as official and judicial language | ||
| 1824 | Lieutenant Farewell receives a grant of land round Port Natal from Shaka | ||
| 1826 | Cape Colony's boundary extended to Orange river. Sir Harry Smith also extended the boundary in 1847 to the Orange River | ||
| 1828 | Ordinance 50: "Hottentots and other free persons of colour" were to be subject to no laws to which whites were not also subject, including the 'vagrancy' practices and pass requirements. Freedom to move and freedom to own land were explicitly decreed. | ||
| 1828 | Dingane, Shaka's half-brother plots Shaka's assassination | ||
| 1829 | Francis Farewell's party murdered by Nqetho who recently quarrelled with Dingane and considered him an enemy, and was not sympathetic towards Farewell due to his trading with Dingane. | ||
| 1834 | Emancipation of Slaves Claim LegaciesSearch Colony: Cape of Good Hope | ||
| Commissie Treks set out | |||
| (Christmas) 6th Kafir War begins | |||
| 1835 | Trichard_Trek crosses Orange river and remains near Caledon river | ||
| December | Potgieter begins to trek north from Tarka | ||
| December | Rumours of Glenelg revocation of Queen Adelaide circulate. British Colonial Secretary Lord Glenelg issued a dispatch instructing D’Urban to “retrocede” Queen Adelaide Province to the Xhosa chiefs | ||
| 1836 | early | Tregardt prepares to trek north | |
| February | Potgieter party crosses Orange river | ||
| March | Tredgardt crosses Vaal river | ||
| May | Potgieter reaches Sand river and leaves to make contact with Tregardt | ||
| May (end} | Tregardt reaches Zoutpansberg | ||
| June | Potgieter joins Tregardt at Zoutpansberg | ||
| June 27 | Potgieter reconnoitres over Limpopo river | ||
| c. July 15 | Van Rensburg Massacre | p70 | |
| July (end) | Potgieter returns to Tregardt's camp | ||
| July (end} | Tregardt leaves to search for the Van Rensburg party | ||
| August | Maritz trek leaves for the north from Graaff Reinet | ||
| August | Potgieter leaves Zoutpansberg | ||
| August 25 | Matabele attack trekker parties which have crossed Vaal river Liebenberg Massacre and Erasmus Hunters Massacred | ||
| September 2 | Potgieter rejoins his party at Sand river | ||
| October 16 | Battle of Vegkop | ||
| November (early) | Maritz reaches Blesberg | ||
| December 2 | Maritz and Potgieter draw up a constitution for trekkers | ||
| 1837 | ]anuary 17 | Attack on Mosega | Mosega |
| February | Retief's manifesto is published | ||
| March | Tregardt sends first message to Lourenco Marques | ||
| March | Potgieter moves to Winburg area | ||
| April 1O | Tregardt sends off second message to Lourenço Marques | ||
| April 17 | Retief elected Governor | ||
| Uys moves north from Uitenhage | |||
| May | Tregardt sends third message to Lourenco Marques | ||
| June | Meeting approves constitution of Maatschappij | ||
| June | Uys arrives at United Laagers | ||
| June end | Smit installed as Trekkers' Predikant | ||
| August 7 | Buys arrives at Tregardt's camp on Doorn river to conduct his party to Lourenço Marques | ||
| August 23 | Tregardt sets off for Lourenço Marques | ||
| September 9 | Retief announces that passes over Berg have been found | ||
| September 13 | Trekkers hold meeting at Sand river and split into two groups; one under Retief heading for Berg, while Potgieter and Maritz ride north and organise a second punitive expedition against Matabele | ||
| October 2 | Retief camps at site of Bethlehem | ||
| October 7 | Retief gets first view of Natal | ||
| October 7 | Rev. Francis Owen arrives at Umgungundhlovu | ||
| October 10 | Retief arrives Port Natal | ||
| October 19 | Greyling camps at Kerkenberg | ||
| November 4-12 | Running fight against Matabele at Kapain | ||
| November 7 | Retief arrives at Umgungundhlovu | ||
| November 11 | Retief's messengers arrive at Kerkenberg | ||
| November 13 | Trekkers begin the descent of the Berg | ||
| November 27 | Retief rejoins his followers | ||
| November 30 | Tregardt arrives at summit of Berg | ||
| December 23 | Tregardt completes descent of Berg | ||
| December 28 | Retief sets offfor Sekonyela's country | ||
| 1838 | January | Sir George Napier succeeds Sir Benjamin D'Urban as Governor of the Cape | |
| January 25 | Retief sets off on his second visit to Umgungundhlovu | ||
| February 3 | Retief arrives at Umgungundhlovu | ||
| February 6 | Retief's party massacred on Kwa Matiwane | ||
| February 16/17 | Weenen Massacre (Afrikaans: Bloukransmoorde) | ||
| March 13 | Tregardt crosses Lebombo range | ||
| April 11 | Vlug Commando ambushed at Ithaleni | p108 | |
| April 13 | Tregardt arrives Lourenco Marques | ||
| April 17 | Army of Natal at Ndondakusuka | p110 | |
| May 1 | Mrs Tregardt dies | ||
| May 16 | Landman annexes Port Natal | p112 | |
| May 16 | By this time Potgieter was two days west of the Berg | p112 | |
| June (middle) | Potgieter acquires land between Vaal and Vet | ||
| August 13 | Successful Boer defence of Veglaer | p113 | |
| September 23 | Maritz dies in Sooilaer | (Oct p113) | |
| October 25 | Tregardt dies at Lourenco Marques | ||
| November | Potgieter settles at Potchefstroom bank of Mooi Rivier | p112 | |
| November 22 | Pretorius reaches Sooilaer with reinforcements | p114 | |
| November 28 | Wen Commando moves out of Sooilaer | ||
| December 4 | British troops land at Port Natal | ||
| December 9 | Oath of the Covenant | ||
| December 16 | Battle of Blood river | ||
| December 16 | Union Jack raised at Port Natal | ||
| December 27 | Battle of the White Umfolozi | p117 | |
| December 31 | Pretorius burns the kraals round Umgungundhlovu prior to his departure | ||
| 1839 | July | Trichard Trek Twenty five survivors of the Tregardt trek are evacuated from Lourenco Marques | |
| October | Mpande flees into Natal with his followers | ||
| December 24 | Jervis evacuates Port Natal | ||
| 1840 | January 14 | Pretorius leads Beeste Commando over the Tugela | |
| January 30 | Nongalaza defeats Dingane`s army north of the Mkuzi river | ||
| February 14 | Mpande crowned king of the Zulus | ||
| October | Loose federation between Natalia and the highveld republics formed | ||
| 1842 | March (end) | British troops under Major Smith begin march on Port Natal | |
| May 3 | British troops reoccupy Port Natal | ||
| May 23/24 | Battle of Congella | ||
| June 25 | Boer siege of Port Natal raised | ||
| December 12 | British Cabinet decide on annexation of Natal | ||
| 1844 | April 9 | Potgieter declares independence of Winburg-Potchefstroom | |
| 1845 | April 30 | Battle of Zwartkoppies | |
| June | Potgieter treks to Ohrigstad | ||
| December | Republic of Natalia formally ceases to exist | ||
| 1846 | June-September | Factional strife at Ohrigstad begins to reach its peak | |
| 1847 | June | Potgieter leads reconnaissance across Limpopo and then revisits the Zoutpansberg district | |
| end | Pretorius leads burghers from Natal to high veld | ||
| December | Sir Harry Smith becomes Governor of the Cape | ||
| 1848 | early | Potgieter's people migrate to the Zoutpansberg | |
| February 3 | Sir Harry Smith declares annexation of the Orange River Sovereignty | ||
| August 29 | Battle of Boomplaats | ||
| 1852 | February 17 | Sand River Convention | |
| March 16 | Reconciliation of Potgieter and Pretorius | ||
| August | Potgieter leads his last commando in Sekwatiland | ||
| December 16 | Potgieter dies | ||
| 1853 | July 23 | Pretorius dies | |
| 1854 | February 23 | British abandon the Orange River Sovereignty |
- Boers and Bantu, a history of the wanderings and wars of the emigrant farmers from their leaving the Cape Colony to the overthrow of Dingan p106 Theal, George McCall, 1837-1919 Publication date 1886 Publisher Cape Town : Saul Solomon
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