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Category: Geography & Travel
Date:
1806 - 1910
Major Events:
Gun War
South Africa Act
Great Trek
Key People:
Cecil Rhodes
Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner
Sir Hercules Robinson
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Sir Benjamin D'Urban
Related Topics:
Western colonialism
Related Places:
South Africa

Cape Colony, British colony established in 1806 in what is now South Africa. With the formation of the Union of South Africa (1910), the colony became the province of the Cape of Good Hope (also called Cape Province). For more detail, see Cape Province.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy McKenna.