In making your decisions, consider how one event may have had an impact on what happened next. When you are done, click on the button at the bottom of the page to see if you placed the events in the proper sequence. To enter our interactive timeline puzzle drawing, include your email address in the box below. For each timeline you solve correctly, you will be entered into a drawing to win a copy of The Africans , the video series that inspired this exhibit. Diamonds are found along the Orange River, and four years later work begins on the Kimberley mine.
Gold is discovered around the Transvaal and in the Witwatersrand.
Johannesburg is founded as the main city on the Witwatersrand. The first Anglo-Boer War, as it is sometimes called, begins, but it lasts only a few months. The second Anglo-Boer War, known to many historians as the South African War, results in the defeat of the Afrikaners who had sought to escape British rule, mainly in the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. The Pedi, under Chief Sikhukhune, are defeated by the British in the same year. The so-called Bambatha rebellion, led by Dinizulu, the king of a small Zulu chiefdom in northern Natal, is the last event in the long history of resistance to colonial rule in South Africa.