Region: South Africa

1652: Cape Town is founded by Jan van Riebeeck as victualing station for VOC ships to Asia
1797: Great Britain seizes the colony in wars of the First Coalition (the Dutch are allied with the French)
1805: Great Britain annexes the colony
1835 on: Great Trek of Dutch colonists to Natal (the Dutch are now known as Boers)
1880–1881: First Boer War (Transvaal War)
1899–1902: Second Boer War (ends with conversion of Boer republics into British colonies)
1948–1994: apartheid
With the end of apartheid in 1994, the African National Congress (ANC) takes the lead in South African politics