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| c. 1770 |
| | | The triangular trade, controlled from Liverpool, ships millions of Africans across the Atlantic as slaves | |
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| c. 1775 |
| | | Dutch nomads, pressing far north from Cape Town, become known as the Trekboers | |
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| 1787 |
| | | A British ship lands a party of freed slaves as the first modern settlers in Sierra Leone, on the west coast of Africa | |
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| c. 1795 |
| | | Dutch Boers begin calling themselves Afrikaners, to emphasize that Africa is their native land | |
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| 1795 |
| | | Mungo Park sets off on his first expedition to explore the Niger on behalf of the African Association | |
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| 1795 |
| | | With the Dutch entering the war on the side of the French, Britain seizes their valuable Cape colony in South Africa | |
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| 1802 |
| | | The Treaty of Amiens restores the Cape of Good Hope to the Netherlands | |
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| 1806 |
| | | The British recapture the Cape of Good Hope from the Dutch | |
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| 1808 |
| | | The British government uses Freetown, in Sierra Leone, as a base in the fight against the slave trade | |
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| 1809 |
| | | The British impose the so-called Hottentot Code, protecting Africans at the Cape but also tying them to employers' farms | |
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