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| 1895, Dec. 29–1896, Jan. 2 |
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| Leander Starr Jameson led an unsuccessful raid on Johannesburg, intended to spark an uprising of Uitlander miners as a pretext for British intervention in South African Republic. | 1 |
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| 1896, Jan. 6 |
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| Cecil Rhodes, implicated in the Jameson Raid, was forced to resign as prime minister. | 2 |
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| 1897 |
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| Zululand was incorporated into Natal Colony. | 3 |
| In Natal, it became a criminal offense for a white man to marry an Indian. | 4 |
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| Aug |
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| Sir Alfred Milner became high commissioner in South Africa. | 5 |
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| Nov |
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| Railway from the Cape reached Bulawayo. | 6 |
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