Dutch Settle the Cape
April 6, 1652
Jan van Riebeeck arrived at the southern tip of Africa with ninety Dutch East India Company employees and founded a refreshment station at Table Bay for ships sailing between Europe and the Indies. Within a generation, the Cape Colony would expand inland and displace the Khoikhoi. South Africa's colonial history had begun.
In context
Also in 1652 (3 other events on record)
- Nikon's Church Reforms Split Russian Orthodoxy · Europe · Religion
- First Anglo-Dutch War Begins · Europe · War
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Before and after in Africa
- Before: 1641: Dutch Take Angola
- After: 1655: Queen Nzinga Dies in Matamba
Before and after in Politics
Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.