World and African history

1952The African National Congress’ (ANC) Defiance Campaign against the South African Apartheid Regime, which in the foll...

100 000 BC Humans begin to migrate from Africa to other parts of the world 8500 BC – 6500 BC In the Sahar...

1 January Battle of Artois and Champagne in France begins. 31 January 1915 The German Army makes use of poison gas...

The outbreak of the First World War was precipitated by the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince Franz Fer...

Pre-1804 Khoisan hunter gatherers are the first inhabitants of the region, before Sotho-Tswana peoples colonized the g...

Late Pleistocene (Early and Middle Stone Age)                    800...

1904 6 January, The settler Frau Sonnenberg tells German soldiers stationed at the Waterberg, including the Sergeant ...