The Great Trek
1836–1846 · Event
Thousands of Boer Voortrekkers leave the British Cape for the interior, founding the republics whose fate defines South African history.
On these timelines: Sub-Saharan Africa, British Empire, The Zulu War, 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)
- Songhai Empire (1464)
- Kingdom of Aksum (100)
- Reign of Menelik II (1889)
Around 1836
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)