Theme
Warfare
Battles, raids, campaigns, military movements, and armed conflict.
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Events
1569–1573Francisco Barreto expedition attempts Portuguese penetration of the Zambezi interior1 May 1659First burgher militia establishedMay 1659–April 1660First Khoikhoi–Dutch WarApril 1660Negotiated peace ends the First Khoikhoi–Dutch War18 July 1673Second Khoikhoi–Dutch War begins1676VOC launches a renewed campaign against the Cochoqua25 June 1677Cochoqua submission ends the seventeenth-century Khoikhoi–Dutch war1693Rozvi forces expel Portuguese influence from parts of the Zimbabwe plateau20 July–August 1693VOC backs rival captain Koopman in an attack on Dorha1779–1781First Frontier War1780–1781Van Jaarsveld’s commandos claim to clear the Zuurveld1789–1793Second Frontier WarMay 1793H. C. D. Maynier becomes landdrost of Graaff-Reinet1795Graaff-Reinet burghers expel Maynier and revolt11 June 1795British fleet arrives in False Bay7 August 1795Battle of Muizenberg16 September 1795Cape capitulates to Britain1799–1803Third Frontier War8 January 1806Battle of Blaauwberg and the second British occupation of the Cape1811–1812Fourth Frontier Warc. 1815Mfecane or Difaqane begins1818–1819Fifth Frontier War and the attack on Grahamstown22 April 1819Makhanda (Nxele) leads the attack on Grahamstown1834–1835Sixth Frontier War1835Hintsa killed during the Sixth Frontier War20 October 1836Battle of Vegkop16 December 1838Battle of Blood River1840Mpande becomes Zulu kingc. 1840Mfecane or Difaqane subsides1842–1843Siege of Congella and British annexation of Natal1846–1847Seventh Frontier War (War of the Axe)3 February–29 August 1848Orange River Sovereignty proclaimed and Battle of Boomplaats fought1850–1853Eighth Frontier War1858First Basotho Warc. 1860–1898Venda polities and the Soutpansberg conflicts1865–1868Seqiti War and the later Basotho Wars16 May 1876Boer–Pedi war begins1877–1878Ninth Frontier WarJanuary–July 1879Anglo-Zulu War2 December 1879Sekhukhune captured after the Anglo-Pedi War1880–1881First Anglo-Boer War1883–1888Dinuzulu and the Zulu civil conflict1893–1894First Matabele War11 October 1899–31 May 1902South African War31 May 1902Treaty of Vereeniging1906Bambatha Rebellion26 August 1966South African Border / Bush War begins1983End Conscription Campaign founded1987–1988Battle of Cuito Cuanavale1989South African Border / Bush War ends1993End Conscription Campaign ends