Great Trek Begins
1836
The first parties of Afrikaner Voortrekkers rolled north from the Cape in ox-wagons, looking for land without Englishmen. They fought the Ndebele, the Zulu, and each other, and eventually founded the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. The Trek would become the Afrikaner origin myth and the seed of apartheid.
In context
Also in 1836 (4 other events on record)
- Fall of the Alamo · North America · War
- Battle of San Jacinto · North America · War
- Dickens's Pickwick Papers · Europe · Culture
- Sam Houston President of Texas · North America · Politics
Before and after in Africa
Before and after in Politics
- Before: 1834: Tolpuddle Martyrs
- After: June 20, 1837: Victoria Becomes Queen
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.