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1816
 
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Shaka wins control of the Zulu and begins to build them into a formidable military machine       
1816
 
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The British establish Bathurst (now Banjul) at the mouth of the Gambia as a base against the slave trade       
1820
 
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The first big influx of British settlers, numbering some 5000, arrives at Cape Town in South Africa      
1821
 
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An Egyptian army makes its camp at Khartoum, subsequently the capital of an Egyptian province in the Sudan      
1821
 
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Napoleon dies on St Helena, after six years of captivity       
1821
 
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The American Colonization Society buys the area later known as Liberia to settle freed slaves      
1822
 
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Egyptian hieroglyphs are deciphered by French Egyptologist Jean François Champollion, using the Rosetta stone        
1822
 
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Mzilikazi, after a quarrel with Shaka, leads the Ndebele people to new territories west of Natal       
1822
 
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The first shipload of freed slaves reaches Cape Mesurado (in the region soon called Liberia) from the USA     
1827
 
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The Turkish governor of Algiers, flicking at the French consul with his fly whisk, finds that he has provoked a French blockade and eventually invasion