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| 1807 |
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| The abolition of the slave trade throughout the British Empire caused a serious labor shortage in the Cape. | 1 |
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| 1809 |
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| The Khoikhoi were placed under colonial law. | 2 |
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| 1811–12 |
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| The British drove 20,000 Xhosa out of Zuurveld to a line east of the Fish River on the Eastern Cape frontier, opening the area for white settlement. | 3 |
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| 1814, May 13 |
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| By the Treaty of Paris, the British secured definitive possession of the Cape. | 4 |
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| 1815 |
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| Slachter's Nek Rebellion against British rule in the Eastern Cape frontier was sparked by a black circuit court that heard complaints of black servants against white farmers. | 5 |
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| 1816 |
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| Protestant missionaries dramatically increased their efforts in the eastern Cape with the intention of converting the Africans. Wesleyans arrived. | 6 |
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| 1817 |
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| Dingiswayo was killed by Zwide's Ndwandwe. His protégé, Shaka, was quickly installed as chief of the small Zulu chiefdom and took over Dingiswayo's Mthwethwa confederacy under new Zulu paramountcy. | 7 |
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| 1817–28 |
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| Shaka became king of the newly emerged Zulu kingdom. Shaka militarized and centralized the state. Men under age 40 remained in active service, serving periodically in central military barracks. They were forbidden to marry and thus establish new homesteads until given permission by the king. The trade and competition that led to state formation in the region, as well as the need to support and employ the army, fueled constant cattle raiding and warfare to exact tribute and incorporate new chiefdoms. The wars and migrations of this period through the 1840s were known as MFECANE. | 8 |
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| 1818–19 |
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| The Xhosa war of resistance failed, leading to cession of the area between the Fish and Keiskamma Rivers. | 9 |
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| 1819–51 |
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| Dr. John Philip, the LMS superintendent missionary, proposed protection for Africans. In particular, Philip sought to segregate Africans on land dedicated to them. His proposals met with fierce opposition from the European farmers. | 10 |
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| 1819–20 |
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| Zulus defeated Zwide's Ndwandwe. Remnants scattered northward and established new states from Mozambique to Tanganyika. | 11 |
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| 1820 |
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| Arrival of 10,000 sponsored British settlers on small farms in Zuurveld on the Eastern Cape Frontier. They were intended to Anglicize the area and make it defensible, as well as to offset the Dutch population politically. Most of these settlers soon migrated instead to the towns. | 12 |
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