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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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| 1840 |
| | | With Boer help, Mpande removes his brother Dingaan from the Zulu throne and takes his place | |
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| 1872 |
| | | Cetshwayo becomes king of Zululand, on the death of his father Mpande | |
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| 1879 |
| | | The British find a pretext to march into the territory ruled by Cetshwayo, thus launching the Zulu War | |
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| 1879 |
| | | Zulu tribesmen surprise and annihilate a British army encamped near Isandhlwana | |
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| 1879 |
| | | Immediately after Isandhlwana a tiny British garrison at Rorke's Drift fights off an overwhelming Zulu attack | |
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| 1879 |
| | | The British destruction of Cetshwayo's kraal at Ulundi ends the Zulu War | |
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| 1879 |
| | | Cetshwayo is captured by the British and is exiled to 'Cape Town | |
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