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| 1802 |
| | The Treaty of Amiens restores the Cape of Good Hope to the Netherlands | |
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| 1804 |
| | The city of Hobart is founded on the southern coast of Tasmania | |
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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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| 1809 |
| | With acts of defiance in Sucre, Bolivia becomes the first American province to rebel against the Spanish authorities | |
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| 1809 |
| | Ranjit Singh, maharaja of the Punjab, agrees an eastern boundary between himself and the British in the Treaty of Amritsar | |
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| 1810 |
| | Simón Bolívar, a young officer in Caracas, takes part in a coup which wins control of Venezuela from the Spanish | |
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| 1810 |
| | After a public meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentinians set up an autonomous local government in opposition to Spanish forces | |
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| 1810 |
| | José Gervasio Artigas lays siege to the Spanish forces in Montevideo, beginning Uruguay's long struggle for independence | |
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| 1810 |
| | The citizens of Bogotá expel the local Spanish officials and declare their loyalty to the deposed Ferdinand VII | |
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