The Zulu Nation's Rise and Fall (In Our Time)
1816 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and fall of the Zulu Nation. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Zulus were a small pastoral community of a bare few thousand people in the eastern part of what is now South Africa. Their territory was limited to about ten square miles. But within a decade, led by their warrior king, Shaka, they had managed to carve out an empire with a population of many tens of thousands.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1816
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Otto von Bismarck (1815)
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Battle of Waterloo (1815)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Karl Marx (1818)