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, The Low Countries, British Empire
Around 1652
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Edo period (1603)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)