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| 1652 |
| | Jan van Riebeeck establishes a Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope | |
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| 1657 |
| | The Dutch in South Africa purchase slaves to do domestic and agricultural work | |
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| c. 1775 |
| | Dutch nomads, pressing far north from Cape Town, become known as the Trekboers | |
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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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| 1809 |
| | The British impose the so-called Hottentot Code, protecting Africans at the Cape but also tying them to employers' farms | |
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| 1815 |
| | The congress of Vienna leaves the Cape of Good Hope in British hands | |
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| 1816 |
| | Shaka wins control of the Zulu and begins to build them into a formidable military machine | |
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| 1820 |
| | The first big influx of British settlers, numbering some 5000, arrives at Cape Town in South Africa | |
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