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Cape Colony: Dutch establishment, administration, and settler society (1652–1795)

Cape Colony: Dutch establishment, administration, and settler society (1652–1795)

  1. VOC orders a Cape refreshment station

    Labels: VOC, Cape of

  2. Jan van Riebeeck lands at Table Bay

    Labels: Jan van, Table Bay

  3. VOC creates the Free Burgher farming system

    Labels: Free Burghers, VOC

  4. Large slave shipments arrive at the Cape

    Labels: Enslaved people, VOC

  5. First Khoikhoi–Dutch war erupts near the settlement

    Labels: Khoikhoi, Dutch settlers

  6. Construction begins on the Castle of Good Hope

    Labels: Castle of, VOC

  7. Simon van der Stel founds Stellenbosch

    Labels: Simon van, Stellenbosch

  8. VOC completes the Slave Lodge complex

    Labels: Slave Lodge, VOC

  9. Constantia land grant anchors elite estate farming

    Labels: Constantia estate, Simon van

  10. French Huguenot refugees arrive and boost farming

    Labels: Huguenots, VOC

  11. Burghers’ petition leads to governor’s dismissal

    Labels: Free Burghers, Willem van

  12. Smallpox epidemic devastates Khoikhoi communities

    Labels: Smallpox, Khoikhoi

  13. Graaff-Reinet founded to extend VOC frontier control

    Labels: Graaff-Reinet, VOC