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| 1836 |
| | | Hendrik Potgieter sets off with some 200 Boers and their cattle at the start of the Great Trek to the north | |
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| 1836 |
| | | The Portuguese ban the shipping of slaves from the coast of Angola | |
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| 1836 |
| | | Hendrik Potgieter and the Boers, protected by a laager at Vegkop, hold off an attack by a large force of Ndebele tribesmen | |
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| 1837 |
| | | After a victory at Vegkop, Boers massacre the inhabitants of a dozen Ndebele villages in secret dawn raids | |
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| 1837 |
| | | Piet Retief emerges as the new leader of the Great Trek, replacing Potgieter | |
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| 1837 |
| | | Potgieter defeats the Ndebele at the Marico river and drives them north of the Limpopo | |
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| 1837 |
| | | Piet Retief reaches a provisional agreement with Dingaan, the Zulu leader, for a Boer settlement in southern Natal | |
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| 1838 |
| | | During a ceremony to celebrate their treaty with Dingaan, Piet Retief and his Boer companions are overpowered and killed | |
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| 1838 |
| | | Dingaan's warriors massacre Boer families in a series of dawn raids near the Bloukrans river | |
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| 1838 |
| | | The river Ncome becomes known as the Blood River after thousands of Zulu die attacking Andries Pretorius and the Boers | |
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