Theme
Mining
Events involving mineral discoveries, mining capital, extraction, and resource politics.
Initial theme stub generated from the nineteenth-century event dataset.
Events
c. 1550Early Madikwe village occupation is dated near Thabazimbi1569–1573Francisco Barreto expedition attempts Portuguese penetration of the Zambezi interior1659–1664VOC expeditions search for Namaqua trade and mineral resourcesAugust 1685–January 1686Simon van der Stel leads an expedition to Namaqualand13 October 1867First recorded colonial-period diamond discovery27 October 1871Griqualand West proclaimed British territory2 September 1882Kimberley introduces electric street lighting28 November 1885Cape railway reaches Kimberley1886Main Witwatersrand gold rush beginsOctober 1886Johannesburg founded30 October 1888Rudd Concession signed with Lobengula1911Mines and Works Act entrenches the colour bar1922Rand Revolt12–16 August 1946African Mine Workers' Strike16 August 2012Marikana massacre