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Cape Colony

The Cape Colony, part of modern South Africa, was established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652, with the founding of Cape Town. It was subsequently occupied by the British in 1795 when the Netherlands were occupied by revolutionary France, so that the French revolutionaries could not take possession of the Cape with its important strategic location...

Timeline of Events

1795

9.16.1795

The first occupation by United Kingdom of Cape Colony, South Africa with the Battle of Hout Bay, after successive victories at the Battle of Muizenberg and Wynberg, after William V requested protection against revolutionary France's occupation of the Netherlands.

1806

1.8.1806

Cape Colony becomes a British colony.

1834

12.1.1834

Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.