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Name: Herero

Type: Polity

Start: 1701 AD

End: 1885 AD

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Was a precolonial chifdom or kingdom of Namibia.

Establishment


  • January 1701: Ovaherero chiefdom established.
  • Chronology


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    1. Events


  • January 1877: The Cape colony declares a protectorate over the Herero.

  • January 1881: The protectorate of the Cape Colony over Damara and Herero is disestablished.

  • October 1885: In 1885, William Worthington Jordan bought a tract (fifty thousand square kilometers) of land from the Ovambo chief Kambonde for three hundred pounds. Here he established the Republic of Upingtonia on 20 October 1885.

  • October 1885: Herero is annexed to German South West Africa.

  • Disestablishment


  • October 1885: In 1885, William Worthington Jordan bought a tract (fifty thousand square kilometers) of land from the Ovambo chief Kambonde for three hundred pounds. Here he established the Republic of Upingtonia on 20 October 1885.
  • October 1885: Herero is annexed to German South West Africa.
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