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1602 VOC founded
1652 VOC establishes refreshment station at the Cape
1658/9 VOC releases 8 company servants to grow crops to sell to the VOC
1676 ‘As a matter of course a good Dutch colony shall be planted here’ – VOC acknowledges the settlement at the Cape as a colony
1795 VOC bankrupt – Patriot revolt in the Netherlands – France invades
1795–1802 Britain occupies the Cape
1803–1806 Cape administered as part of the Dutch Republic of Batavia
1806–1813 Cape re-occupied by Britain
1814 Netherlands formally recognises British control of the Cape
1837 De Gids, literary journal for the liberals, established in the Netherlands
1838 Some Dutch-speaking settlers leave the Cape colony and spread north
1847 Ulrich Lauts publishes De Kaapsche Landverhuizers, or Cape Emigrants
1852 Ulrich Lauts contracts Dutch pastor Dirk van der Hoff to minister in the Transvaal Republic
1853 Pastor Dirk van der Hoff establishes the NHK (Z-A) in the Transvaal Republic
1853 NHK (Z-A) declares independence from NGK (Cape Synod)
1854 Jacobus Stuart publishes De Hollandsche Afrikanen en hunne Republiek
1855 Cornelis Hiddingh travels to southern Africa on behalf of King Willem II
1858 Jacobus Stuart drafts the Constitution of the Transvaal Republic
1858 Gereformeerde Kerk established in Transvaal under Dutch pastor Dirk Postma
1858 Migration scheme for Dutch Protestant children to the Cape as indentured servants
1861 Separation between NGK (Cape Synod) and NHK (Z-A) formalised and NHK (Z-A) becomes the Transvaal Republic’s state church
1867 Chesson attacks Transvaalers as slave-owners
1867 D. P. M. Huet publishes in Dutch an attack on the Dutch-African treatment of the indigenous people
1870 Algemeen Handelsblad commences its regular column about the Cape
1874 Nicolaas Mansvelt begins to teach Dutch at Paarl Gymnasium
1875 President Burgers of Transvaal Republic visits the Netherlands
1876 New entry criteria to Dutch universities close access to Dutch-African students
1877 April Britain annexes the Transvaal Republic
1880 Dec Pieter Harting publishes his Message to the British people
1881 Transvaal rebellion against annexation leads to the First Anglo-Boer War
1881 Pieter Veth writes Onze Transvaalsche Broeders - published in De Gids
1881 Mar NZAV founded with Pieter Harting as Chairman
1883 Jan–Dec H. F. Jonkman travels to southern Africa as NZAV delegate
1884 Mar ZAR Delegation, led by President Kruger, visits the Netherlands
1884 Nov Failure of first NZASM capital raising for the Pretoria-Delagoa Bay line
1886 C. B. Spruyt becomes Secretary of the NZAV
1893–1897 NZASM completes ZAR railway network, including line from Pretoria to Delagoa Bay
1896 Algemeen Nederlandsch Verbond, (ANV), founded
1897 Neerlandia commences publication
1899 Oct Second Anglo-Boer War begins; Hollandercorps defeated at Elandslaagte
1899 Oct Jan te Winkel publishes Waar het om gaat in Zuid-Afrika, een word tot het Nederlandsch Volk
1900 Jun Pretoria falls to the British, President Kruger leaves ZAR for Europe aboard Dutch vessel Gelderland
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