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1884-1885
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During the Berlin
Conference European countries plot the complete
colonialization of Africa. |
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1886
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Gold discovered on the
Main Reef by George Harrison on the western
outskirts of present day Johannesburg. |
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1892
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There is an influx of
more than 40,000 uitlanders (foreigners) in
Johannesburg; larger than the entire Boer population
of the then Transvaal Republic. |
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1895
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Jameson Raid fails to
start pro-British revolt in Boer territory.
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1899
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Anglo-Boer War starts.
Boers invade the Cape and Natal colonies and besiege
Ladysmith, Kimberley and Mafeking. Britain responds
with an army twice the size of Wellington's at
Waterloo. |
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1900-1902
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Boer commandos respond
with guerrilla warfare (a first in military
history). General Kitchener starts a systematic
destruction of farms and livestock and puts the
Boers' civilian sympathisers into concentration
camps. Over 20,000 women and children die. The war
ends in a peace treaty. |