South African Republic: All Data

This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.

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. After the Boer Wars it became a British Protectorate and was one of the states that merged to form the Union of South Africa in 1910.