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| c. 1795 |
| | Dutch Boers begin calling themselves Afrikaners, to emphasize that Africa is their native land | |
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| 1795 |
| | With the Dutch entering the war on the side of the French, Britain seizes their valuable Cape colony in South Africa | |
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| 1802 |
| | The Treaty of Amiens restores the Cape of Good Hope to the Netherlands | |
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| 1806 |
| | The British recapture the Cape of Good Hope from the Dutch | |
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| 1815 |
| | The congress of Vienna leaves the Cape of Good Hope in British hands | |
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| 1836 |
| | The Portuguese ban the shipping of slaves from the coast of Angola | |
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| 1875 |
| | Slavery is finally made illegal in the Portuguese empire | |
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| 1945 |
| | Achmed Sukarno makes a unilateral declaration of Indonesian independence, and leads the subsequent struggle against the Dutch | |
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| 1949 |
| | The Dutch concede independence for Indonesia with Achmed Sukarno as president | |
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| 1949 |
| | Batavia reverts to its original name of Jakarta and becomes the capital of Indonesia | |
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