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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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| 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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| 1815 |
| | | The congress of Vienna leaves the Cape of Good Hope in British hands | |
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| 1815 |
| | | Napoleon is sent to a more secure place of exile, the rocky Atlantic island of St Helena | |
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| 1816 |
| | | Shaka wins control of the Zulu and begins to build them into a formidable military machine | |
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| 1820 |
| | | The first big influx of British settlers, numbering some 5000, arrives at Cape Town in South Africa | |
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| 1821 |
| | | Napoleon dies on St Helena, after six years of captivity | |
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| 1822 |
| | | Mzilikazi, after a quarrel with Shaka, leads the Ndebele people to new territories west of Natal | |
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| 1828 |
| | | Shaka is murdered by his half-brother Dingaan, who becomes leader of the Zulu in his place | |
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