Cape Colony founded
1652 · Event
Jan van Riebeeck establishes a Dutch East India Company supply station at Table Bay; the start of European settlement in southern Africa.
On these timelines: Master, Sub-Saharan Africa
Around 1652
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Edo period (1603)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)