Date | Events |
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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 |
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 |