Polity · 1796 CE – 1884 CE
British Cape Colony
Kaapkolonie · Kaapkolonie · Cape Colony
- Peak recorded area
- 990,436 km²
- 1877 CE
- Rulers on record
- 6
- from 1739 CE
- Data series
- 10
- 1850 CE–1880 CE
Overview
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 of Nations (1961–94).
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Territory
34 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated. CShapes 2.0 holds 2 further extents, measured on a different basis and deliberately not merged into this series.
The record
The best-attested series in each category; where several projects publish the same quantity, the one with the most observations is shown. Each row is the most recent value the record holds at or before 1884 CE, shown with the year that value belongs to. Some statistical series also publish forward projections — the year column is the honest guide. Nothing on this page is interpolated or estimated by us.
People
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Community Size2 obs · 1850 CE–1880 CE | 7ordinal1880 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Economy
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Agriculture Intensity2 obs · 1850 CE–1880 CE | 3ordinal1880 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Agriculture2 obs · 1850 CE–1880 CE | 5ordinal1880 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Fishing2 obs · 1850 CE–1880 CE | 0ordinal1880 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Gathering2 obs · 1850 CE–1880 CE | 0ordinal1880 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Hunting2 obs · 1850 CE–1880 CE | 1ordinal1880 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Husbandry2 obs · 1850 CE–1880 CE | 4ordinal1880 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Governance
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Jurisdictional Hierarchy2 obs · 1850 CE–1880 CE | 3ordinal1880 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Political Succession2 obs · 1850 CE–1880 CE | 1ordinal1880 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Development
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Class Stratification2 obs · 1850 CE–1880 CE | 3ordinal1880 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Rulers
6 on record with dated reigns. Reign years follow the house convention: BCE years are negative.
- Hendrik SwellengrebelGovernor of the Cape of Good Hope1739 CE – 1751 CE
- Ryk TulbaghGovernor of the Cape of Good Hope1751 CE – 1771 CE
- Joachim van PlettenbergGovernor of the Cape of Good Hope1771 CE – 1785 CE
- Abraham Josias SluyskenGovernor of the Cape of Good Hope1793 CE – 1795 CE
- George CathcartGovernor of the Cape of Good Hope1852 CE – 1853 CE
- Henry BarklyGovernor of the Cape of Good Hope1870 CE – 1877 CE
Language & currency
- Official & national languages
- Afrikaans, Dutch, English
Sources
Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.
Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).
D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock)Ethnographic Atlas (D-PLACE 2.3)
Kirby, K.R. et al. (2016). D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity. PLoS ONE 11(7).
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British Cape Colony is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.