BaTswana
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Was a precolonial indigenous chiefdom or kingdom in modern-day South Africa.
Establishment
January 1801: Establishment of BaTswana.
Chronology
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1. Events
January 1839: Potchefstroom was founded in 1838 by Voortrekkers, Dutch-speaking settlers who migrated from the Cape Colony in South Africa. It is the second-oldest European settlement in the Transvaal region, now part of modern-day South Africa.
January 1852: The South African Republic came into existence on 17 January 1852, when the British signed the Sand River Convention treaty with about 40,000 Boer people, recognising their independence in the region to the north of the Vaal River.
July 1870: At the settlement of Klipdrift, on 30 July 1870 Stafford Parker declared the independent Klipdrift Republic and was also chosen as President.
July 1882: The Republic of Stellaland was created on 26 July 1882, under the leadership of its elected president Gerrit Jacobus van Niekerk, a farmer from Transvaal, and was given the name Stellaland (Star Land) in reference to a comet that was visible in the skies at the time.
March 1885: The Bechuanaland Protectorate was established by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Southern Africa. It encompassed modernd-day Botswana but was bounded to the north by the 22° parallel south.
September 1885: The northern boundary of the protectorate was formally extended northward by the British to include Ngamiland, which was then dominated by the Tawana state.
Disestablishment
January 1886: baTswana was incorporated into Cape Colony.
