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| 1802 |
| | | The Treaty of Amiens restores the Cape of Good Hope to the Netherlands | |
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| 1804 |
| | | The city of Hobart is founded on the southern coast of Tasmania | |
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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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| 1809 |
| | | Ranjit Singh, maharaja of the Punjab, agrees an eastern boundary between himself and the British in the Treaty of Amritsar | |
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| 1815 |
| | | The congress of Vienna leaves the Cape of Good Hope in British hands | |
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| 1820 |
| | | The newly independent republic of Argentina takes possession of Las Islas Malvinas (the Falklands) | |
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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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| 1821 |
| | | The British government imposes a merger on two great squabbling enterprises in Canada, the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company | |
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| 1821 |
| | | The merged Hudson's Bay Company now administers a territory stretching from the Great Lakes to the Pacific | |
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