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Cape Good Hope in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Cape Good Hope in South Africa. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

2 records2 event labels2 people1488–1901

Historical events in Cape Good Hope

1488

1488
1st Cape Good Hope
Bartholomew Diaz · Exploration and Discovery

1st to round the Cape of Good Hope

1901

1901
Siege of Cape Good Hope
Jan Christian Smuts · Boer War, 2nd

Leads a failed Boer raid on the Cape of Good Hope. Hopes to raise a rebellion against the British and disrupt their lines of communication

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These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match South Africa and Cape Good Hope. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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