Cape Town History
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1652 – 1794
Dutch Settlement 1652-1712
1712 – 1750
1751 – 1774
French arrival 1780-1794
1st British Rule 1795
1795 – 1994
2nd British Rule 1806
1820 – 1839
1841 – 1850
1851 – 1874
1875 -1900
1900 – 1919
1919 – 1940
1940 – 1994
Buildings
FNB Building – Adderley Street
General Post Office
Houses of Parliament
Old Mutual Building
Standard Bank Adderley Street
Churches
Lutheran Church
Metropolitan Methodist Church
Sending Gestig Church
St Andrews Church
St George’s Cathedral
St Mary’s Cathedral
St Stephens Church
The Groote Kerk
City Walks
Bo-Kaap walk
Central City Walk
East City walk
D’Almeida
Historical Events
1820 British Settlers
Battle of Blaauwberg
Battle of Muizenberg 1795
Discovery of the Cape
Noon Gun
The Alabama
The Neptune
Image Gallery
Iziko Museums
Bertrams House
Bo-Kaap Museum
Koopmans-de Wet House
Old Town House
Rust en Vreugd
SA Museum
SA National Gallery
The Castle of Good Hope
The Slave Lodge
Museums
District Six Museum
The Jewish Museum
National Monuments
Centre for the Book
City Hall
Egyptian Building
Jan de Waal House
Old Customs House
Old Drill Hall
Riebeeck Square
SA Public Library
Tuynhuis
People
Anton Anreith
Bishop Gray
Cecil John Rhodes
Dr James Barry
Jan Smuts
Lady Anne Barnard
Louis Thibault
Nelson Mandela
Sir Herbert Baker
Places
Bo-Kaap
Company’s Garden
District Six
Greenmarket Square
Politics
Afrikaans
Apartheid
Sanctions
Population
Early Inhabitants
Robben Island
Tours
Robben Island
Robben Island Dec 2015
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1652 – 1794
1712 – 1750
1751 – 1774
1st British Rule 1795
Dutch Settlement 1652-1712
French arrival 1780-1794
1795 – 1994
1820 – 1839
1841 – 1850
1851 – 1874
1875 -1900
1900 – 1919
1919 – 1940
1940 – 1994
2nd British Rule 1806
Buildings
FNB Building – Adderley Street
General Post Office
Houses of Parliament
Old Mutual Building
Standard Bank Adderley Street
Churches
Lutheran Church
Metropolitan Methodist Church
Sending Gestig Church
St Andrews Church
St George’s Cathedral
St Mary’s Cathedral
St Stephens Church
The Groote Kerk
City Walks
Bo-Kaap walk
Central City Walk
East City walk
D’Almeida
Historical Events
1820 British Settlers
Battle of Blaauwberg
Battle of Muizenberg 1795
Discovery of the Cape
Noon Gun
The Alabama
The Neptune
Image Gallery
Iziko Museums
Bertrams House
Bo-Kaap Museum
Koopmans-de Wet House
Old Town House
Rust en Vreugd
SA Museum
SA National Gallery
The Castle of Good Hope
The Slave Lodge
Museums
District Six Museum
The Jewish Museum
National Monuments
Centre for the Book
City Hall
Egyptian Building
Jan de Waal House
Old Customs House
Old Drill Hall
Riebeeck Square
SA Public Library
Tuynhuis
People
Anton Anreith
Bishop Gray
Cecil John Rhodes
Dr James Barry
Jan Smuts
Lady Anne Barnard
Louis Thibault
Nelson Mandela
Sir Herbert Baker
Places
Bo-Kaap
Company’s Garden
District Six
Greenmarket Square
Politics
Afrikaans
Apartheid
Sanctions
Population
Early Inhabitants
Robben Island
Tours
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