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Timeline of Events Significant to the Zulu People

1816 Shaka succeeds his father, inkosi Senzangakhona.
1824 British settlers establish Port Natal.
1826 Port Natal settlers support Zulus in Battle of iziNdolowane against the Ndwandwe.
1827 Shaka defeats Bheje tribe.
1828 (24 September) Shaka assassinated by Dingane.
1834 Great Trek and Boer-Zulu War.
1838 (6 February) Dingane murders Piet Retief and party.
  (16-19 February) Zulus massacre Boer Voortrekkers.
  (end April) Zulus ravage Port Natal.
  (16 December) Battle of Blood River.
1839 Peace treaty between Zulus and Boers.
  (September) Mpande flees to Boer Republic of Natalia.
1840 Mpande and Boers defeat Dingane.
  (10 February) Mpande made king by Boers. Cedes part of Zululand to Boers.
  (March-April) Dingane murdered.
1856 Battle of Ndondakusuka – Cetshwayo defeats Mbuyazi.
1872 (October) King Mpande dies.
1873 King Cetshwayo crowned.
1877 Bulwer offers mediation in border dispute.
1878 Boundary Commission meet at Rorke’s Drift.
  (28 July) Sihayo incident.
  (mid-September) Smith and Deighton incident.
  (11 December) British ultimatum to Zulus.
1879 (6-11 January) British invasion of Zululand.
  (4 July) British defeat Zulus at Ulundi.
  (28 August) King Cetshwayo captured in Ngome Forest.
  (1 September) Wolseley partitions Zululand.
1880 (May) first unsuccessful Zulu request restoration of King Cetshwayo.
1882 (April) second unsuccessful Zulu request restoration of King Cetshwayo.
  (August) King Cetshwayo travels to London to plead his case.
1883 (10 January) King Cetshwayo returns to Zululand.
  (30 March) Zibhebhu routs king’s Usuthu in northern Zululand.
  (21 July) King Cetshwayo defeated at Ulundi by rival chiefs, Zibhebhu and Hamu.
  (15 October) King Cetshwayo seeks refuge with British at Eshowe.
1884 (8 February) King Cetshwayo dies – probably poisoned by his own people.
  (April-May) internecine warfare continues.
  (2 May) Dinizulu and Boers form alliance.
  (21 May) Boers crown Dinizulu in exchange for 3 million acres of northern Zululand.
1888 (March-April) Dinizulu musters supporters on Ceza Mountain.
  (May) Usuthu under Dinizulu join abaQulusi and raid loyalists.
  (2 June) British repulsed by Dinizulu at Ceza.
  (24 June) British abandon northern Zululand.
  (2 July) British restore authority across northern Zululand.
  (6 August) Dinizulu disbands Usuthu and seeks refuge with ZAR.
  (15 November) Dinizulu surrenders to British – placed under arrest.
1889 (February-April) Dinizulu tried and then banished to St Helena.
1897 (30 December) Colony of Zululand annexed by British and becomes a province of Natal.
1898 (January) Dinizulu returned to Zululand in an attempt to restore stability.
1903 All parts of Zululand brought under control of Natal authorities.
1906 (January) White farmers and settlers authorized to occupy Zululand.
  (February-August) Zulu uprising commences. (Bambatha Rebellion).
1910 (31 May) Natal becomes a province of the Union of South Africa.
1913 Dinizulu dies.
1923 Inkatha kaZulu was formed.
1925 (June) Prince Solomon meets with the British heir apparent, Edward, Prince of Wales.
1933 (4 March) King Solomon dies.
1952 Prince Cyprian recognized as king by the British Government.
1953 Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi elected to the tribal constituency of Mahlabatini.
1955 (October) Zululand re-established and its lands returned to the Zulus.
1968 (September) King Ciprian dies.
1971 (4 December) Goodwill Zwelithini crowned king.
1975 Prime Minister Buthelezi founds a new version of Inkatha – later the Inkatha Freedom Party

The Anglo Zulu War Historical Society
Hon. President Prof. John Laband FRGS
Hon. Vice President Ian Knight BA, FRGS

Society Consultants;
In South Africa;- Prof. John Laband FRGS, Xolani Mkhize, David Charles FRGS
United Kingdom;- Dr. Christopher Forester, Brian Best FRGS, Ian Knight BA FRGS, Ian Castle FRGS

From The Editor, Dr Adrian Greaves FRGS
Woodbury House, Woodchurch Road, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 7AE, Great Britain.
Tel; 01580-764189 Fax; 01580-766648

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