Bantu expansion reaches Southern Africa
c. 400 CE · Event
Centuries of Bantu-speaking migration carry iron-working and farming across sub-Saharan Africa to its southern tip.
On these timelines: Sub-Saharan Africa, Master
More from Sub-Saharan Africa
- Mali Empire (1235)
- Mali Empire begins (1235)
- Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca (1324)
- Ghana Empire (700)
- Great Zimbabwe flourishes (1100)
- Kingdom of Aksum (100)
- Songhai Empire (1464)
- Zulu Kingdom under Shaka (1816)
Around 400
- Fall of Western Roman Empire (476)
- Fall of the Western Roman Empire (476)
- Edict of Milan (313)
- Council of Nicaea (325)
- Sack of Rome by Visigoths (410)
- Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain (450)
- Gupta Empire (320)
- Conversion of Constantine (312)
- Romans withdraw from Britain (410)
- Christianity becomes Roman state religion (380)