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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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| 1975 |
| | | Surinam wins independence from the Dutch, with Johan Ferrier as the first president | |
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