What the records say
- When
- 1835
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Cape Colony
- Coordinates
- 32.00° S, 22.00° E
- Process
- annexation
- Type
- Annexation (unilateral)
- Area km2
- 1
- Gaining
- United Kingdom
- Cow number
- 69
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
Cape Colony
British colony from 1806 to 1910
The Cape Colony, also known as the Cape of Good Hope, was a British colony in present-day South Africa named after the Cape of Good Hope. It existed from 1795 to 1802, and again from 1806 to 1910, when it united with three other colonies to form the Union of South Africa, then became the Cape Province, which existed even after 1961, when South Africa had become a republic, albeit temporarily outside the Commonwealth…
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation