First Boer War Prelude
September 1, 1880
Afrikaner farmers in the Transvaal, annexed by the British three years before, began refusing to pay taxes. By December they would declare a republic and defeat a British force at Bronkhorstspruit. The war would be short and humiliating; Gladstone would agree to Transvaal independence the next year. Britain would try again in 1899.
In context
Also in 1880 (3 other events on record)
- Pasteur's Chicken Cholera Vaccine · Europe · Science
- Battle of Maiwand · Central Asia · War
- Los Angeles Gets a Railroad · North America · Technology
Before and after in Africa
Before and after in War
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.