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1836: A “purely examining” university
Description: Grant of arms issued to the University of London, 1838. A grant of arms gives royal recognition to an institution by allowing it to bear a coat of arms.
Credit: © Senate House Library / University of London
Archive: Senate House,Univerisity of London
Type: Document -
1858: Cape examinations centralised
Description: Minutes of meetings of the Board of Public Examiners, the forerunner of the University of the Cape of Good Hope.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Document -
1860: Roots of an Indian community
Description: Indentured Indian labourers cutting sugar cane in the British colony of Natal, circa 1894.
Credit: © Museum Africa
Archive: Museum Africa
Type: Photograph -
1867: Dynamite invented
Description: Alfred Nobel, 1885.
Credit: © The Nobel Foundation
Archive: Nobel Foundation
Type: Photograph -
1869: Kimberley diamond rush
Description: View of Kimberley Mine, 1878.
Credit: © De Beers Consolidated Mines Proprietary Limited
Archive: De Beers Consolidated Mines Proprietary Limited
Type: Photograph -
1873: South Africa's first university
Description: The proclamation establishing the University of the Cape of Good Hope, 1873.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Document -
1874: First degrees conferred
Description: Diocesan College student Robert Sheard becomes the first recipient of a University of the Cape of Good Hope MA.
Credit: © The Western Cape Archives and Records Service, reference J2722
Archive: Western Cape Archives and Record Services
Type: Photograph -
1877: Royal charter bestowed
Description: A royal charter grants a right or power – in the case of this 1877 charter, the recognition of degrees – to an institution.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Document -
1878: British military disasters
Description: The Last Stand at Isandlwana by English war artist Charles Edwin Fripp, 1885
Credit: © Council of the National Army Museum, London
Archive: National Army Museum,London
Type: Painting -
1879: African languages included
Description: Lovedale College would have taken advantage of the University's African language examinations. Paul Ngxamngxa, pictured here, earned a Lovedale qualification in 1880.
Credit: © Cory Library / Rhodes University / Africa Media Online
Archive: Africa Media Online
Type: Photograph -
1880: First black matriculant
Description: Reverend Sihlali (probably 3rd row from the back, 2nd from the right) with fellow delegates to a convention at Lovedale Mission, Alice, 1906
Credit: © Cory Library / Rhodes University / Africa Media Online
Archive: Africa Media Online
Type: Photograph -
1884: The Berlin Conference
Description: Illustration of the proceedings of the Berlin Conference, Allgemeine Illustrierte Zeitung, 1884.
Credit: © akg-images
Archive: akg-images
Type: Painting -
1886-87: First degrees for women
Description: Since she is a woman, Agnes Ellen Lewis is compelled to study privately for her 1886 BA.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Photograph -
1894: First music examinations
Description: Syllabus of the first local music examinations, University the Cape of good Hope Calendar, 1894;.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Document -
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1899-1902: South African (Anglo–Boer) War
Description: In the aftermath of the South African War, British soldiers round up Boers, and thousands of Africans, and force them into concentration camps.
Credit: © Museum Africa
Archive: Museum Africa
Type: Photograph -
1901: Catering to island prisoners
Description: Boer prisoners of war attend school at Deadwood Camp on the Atlantic island of St Helena, circa 1900.
Credit: © King's Own Royal Regiment Museum, Lancaster
Archive: King's Own Royal Regiment Museum,Lancaster
Type: Photograph -
1905: Bloody Sunday in Russia
Description: The imperial guard fires on unarmed protestors marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II, 22 January 1905.
Credit: © Hulton Archive / Getty Images
Archive: Getty Images
Type: Photograph -
1906: Map
Description: Map of Southern Africa, 1900.
Credit: © Ladysmith Siege Museum / Africa Media Online
Archive: Ladysmith Siege Museum
Type: Map -
1910: The Union of South Africa
Description: The first Government Gazette of the newly established Union of South Africa, 1910.
Credit: © Museum Africa
Archive: Museum Africa
Type: Document -
1912: SANNC founded
Description: The South African Native National Congress delegation to London to protest against the 1913 Land Act, June 1914.
Credit: © Drum Social Histories / Bailey’s African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Archive: Africa Media Online
Type: Photograph -
1913: First honorary doctorate for a woman
Description: Lucy Lloyd is awarded an honorary doctorate at the age of 78, a year before her death.
Credit: © Special Collections / University of Cape Town Libraries
Archive: University of Cape Town Libraries
Type: Photograph -
1914-18: The First World War
Description: Headline declaring the start of World War I, Pretoria News, 1914.
Credit: © Museum Africa
Archive: Museum Africa
Type: Document -
1916: Fort Hare opens
Description: Fort Hare students (from left) Oliver Tambo, Congress Mbata and Lancelot Gama, Alice, 1940. All three will later rise to political prominence.
Credit: © Dr Lancelot Gama, courtesy of Luli Callinicos
Archive: Luli Callinicos Private Collection
Type: Photograph -
1916: The University of South Africa
Description: Register of honorary doctorates conferred by the University of the Cape of Good Hope and later Unisa, 1899 to 1987.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Document -
1836: A “purely examining” university
Description: Grant of arms issued to the University of London, 1838. A grant of arms gives royal recognition to an institution by allowing it to bear a coat of arms.
Credit: © Senate House Library / University of London
Archive: Senate House,Univerisity of London
Type: Document -
1858: Cape examinations centralised
Description: Minutes of meetings of the Board of Public Examiners, the forerunner of the University of the Cape of Good Hope.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Document -
1860: Roots of an Indian community
Description: Indentured Indian labourers cutting sugar cane in the British colony of Natal, circa 1894.
Credit: © Museum Africa
Archive: Museum Africa
Type: Photograph -
1867: Dynamite invented
Description: Alfred Nobel, 1885.
Credit: © The Nobel Foundation
Archive: Nobel Foundation
Type: Photograph -
1869: Kimberley diamond rush
Description: View of Kimberley Mine, 1878.
Credit: © De Beers Consolidated Mines Proprietary Limited
Archive: De Beers Consolidated Mines Proprietary Limited
Type: Photograph -
1873: South Africa's first university
Description: The proclamation establishing the University of the Cape of Good Hope, 1873.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Document -
1874: First degrees conferred
Description: Diocesan College student Robert Sheard becomes the first recipient of a University of the Cape of Good Hope MA.
Credit: © The Western Cape Archives and Records Service, reference J2722
Archive: Western Cape Archives and Record Services
Type: Photograph -
1877: Royal charter bestowed
Description: A royal charter grants a right or power – in the case of this 1877 charter, the recognition of degrees – to an institution.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Document -
1878: British military disasters
Description: The Last Stand at Isandlwana by English war artist Charles Edwin Fripp, 1885
Credit: © Council of the National Army Museum, London
Archive: National Army Museum,London
Type: Painting -
1879: African languages included
Description: Lovedale College would have taken advantage of the University's African language examinations. Paul Ngxamngxa, pictured here, earned a Lovedale qualification in 1880.
Credit: © Cory Library / Rhodes University / Africa Media Online
Archive: Africa Media Online
Type: Photograph -
1880: First black matriculant
Description: Reverend Sihlali (probably 3rd row from the back, 2nd from the right) with fellow delegates to a convention at Lovedale Mission, Alice, 1906
Credit: © Cory Library / Rhodes University / Africa Media Online
Archive: Africa Media Online
Type: Photograph -
1884: The Berlin Conference
Description: Illustration of the proceedings of the Berlin Conference, Allgemeine Illustrierte Zeitung, 1884.
Credit: © akg-images
Archive: akg-images
Type: Painting -
1886-87: First degrees for women
Description: Since she is a woman, Agnes Ellen Lewis is compelled to study privately for her 1886 BA.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Photograph -
1894: First music examinations
Description: Syllabus of the first local music examinations, University the Cape of good Hope Calendar, 1894;.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Document -
1899-1902: South African (Anglo–Boer) War
Description: In the aftermath of the South African War, British soldiers round up Boers, and thousands of Africans, and force them into concentration camps.
Credit: © Museum Africa
Archive: Museum Africa
Type: Photograph -
1901: Catering to island prisoners
Description: Boer prisoners of war attend school at Deadwood Camp on the Atlantic island of St Helena, circa 1900.
Credit: © King's Own Royal Regiment Museum, Lancaster
Archive: King's Own Royal Regiment Museum,Lancaster
Type: Photograph -
1905: Bloody Sunday in Russia
Description: The imperial guard fires on unarmed protestors marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II, 22 January 1905.
Credit: © Hulton Archive / Getty Images
Archive: Getty Images
Type: Photograph -
1906: Map
Description: Map of Southern Africa, 1900.
Credit: © Ladysmith Siege Museum / Africa Media Online
Archive: Ladysmith Siege Museum
Type: Map -
1910: The Union of South Africa
Description: The first Government Gazette of the newly established Union of South Africa, 1910.
Credit: © Museum Africa
Archive: Museum Africa
Type: Document -
1912: SANNC founded
Description: The South African Native National Congress delegation to London to protest against the 1913 Land Act, June 1914.
Credit: © Drum Social Histories / Bailey’s African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Archive: Africa Media Online
Type: Photograph -
1913: First honorary doctorate for a woman
Description: Lucy Lloyd is awarded an honorary doctorate at the age of 78, a year before her death.
Credit: © Special Collections / University of Cape Town Libraries
Archive: University of Cape Town Libraries
Type: Photograph -
1914-18: The First World War
Description: Headline declaring the start of World War I, Pretoria News, 1914.
Credit: © Museum Africa
Archive: Museum Africa
Type: Document -
1916: Fort Hare opens
Description: Fort Hare students (from left) Oliver Tambo, Congress Mbata and Lancelot Gama, Alice, 1940. All three will later rise to political prominence.
Credit: © Dr Lancelot Gama, courtesy of Luli Callinicos
Archive: Luli Callinicos Private Collection
Type: Photograph -
1916: The University of South Africa
Description: Register of honorary doctorates conferred by the University of the Cape of Good Hope and later Unisa, 1899 to 1987.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Document -
1836: A “purely examining” university
Description: Grant of arms issued to the University of London, 1838. A grant of arms gives royal recognition to an institution by allowing it to bear a coat of arms.
Credit: © Senate House Library / University of London
Archive: Senate House,Univerisity of London
Type: Document -
1858: Cape examinations centralised
Description: Minutes of meetings of the Board of Public Examiners, the forerunner of the University of the Cape of Good Hope.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Document -
1860: Roots of an Indian community
Description: Indentured Indian labourers cutting sugar cane in the British colony of Natal, circa 1894.
Credit: © Museum Africa
Archive: Museum Africa
Type: Photograph -
1867: Dynamite invented
Description: Alfred Nobel, 1885.
Credit: © The Nobel Foundation
Archive: Nobel Foundation
Type: Photograph -
1869: Kimberley diamond rush
Description: View of Kimberley Mine, 1878.
Credit: © De Beers Consolidated Mines Proprietary Limited
Archive: De Beers Consolidated Mines Proprietary Limited
Type: Photograph -
1873: South Africa's first university
Description: The proclamation establishing the University of the Cape of Good Hope, 1873.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Document -
1874: First degrees conferred
Description: Diocesan College student Robert Sheard becomes the first recipient of a University of the Cape of Good Hope MA.
Credit: © The Western Cape Archives and Records Service, reference J2722
Archive: Western Cape Archives and Record Services
Type: Photograph -
1877: Royal charter bestowed
Description: A royal charter grants a right or power – in the case of this 1877 charter, the recognition of degrees – to an institution.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Document -
1878: British military disasters
Description: The Last Stand at Isandlwana by English war artist Charles Edwin Fripp, 1885
Credit: © Council of the National Army Museum, London
Archive: National Army Museum,London
Type: Painting -
1879: African languages included
Description: Lovedale College would have taken advantage of the University's African language examinations. Paul Ngxamngxa, pictured here, earned a Lovedale qualification in 1880.
Credit: © Cory Library / Rhodes University / Africa Media Online
Archive: Africa Media Online
Type: Photograph -
1880: First black matriculant
Description: Reverend Sihlali (probably 3rd row from the back, 2nd from the right) with fellow delegates to a convention at Lovedale Mission, Alice, 1906
Credit: © Cory Library / Rhodes University / Africa Media Online
Archive: Africa Media Online
Type: Photograph -
1884: The Berlin Conference
Description: Illustration of the proceedings of the Berlin Conference, Allgemeine Illustrierte Zeitung, 1884.
Credit: © akg-images
Archive: akg-images
Type: Painting -
1886-87: First degrees for women
Description: Since she is a woman, Agnes Ellen Lewis is compelled to study privately for her 1886 BA.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Photograph -
1894: First music examinations
Description: Syllabus of the first local music examinations, University the Cape of good Hope Calendar, 1894;.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Document -
1899-1902: South African (Anglo–Boer) War
Description: In the aftermath of the South African War, British soldiers round up Boers, and thousands of Africans, and force them into concentration camps.
Credit: © Museum Africa
Archive: Museum Africa
Type: Photograph -
1901: Catering to island prisoners
Description: Boer prisoners of war attend school at Deadwood Camp on the Atlantic island of St Helena, circa 1900.
Credit: © King's Own Royal Regiment Museum, Lancaster
Archive: King's Own Royal Regiment Museum,Lancaster
Type: Photograph -
1905: Bloody Sunday in Russia
Description: The imperial guard fires on unarmed protestors marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II, 22 January 1905.
Credit: © Hulton Archive / Getty Images
Archive: Getty Images
Type: Photograph -
1906: Map
Description: Map of Southern Africa, 1900.
Credit: © Ladysmith Siege Museum / Africa Media Online
Archive: Ladysmith Siege Museum
Type: Map -
1910: The Union of South Africa
Description: The first Government Gazette of the newly established Union of South Africa, 1910.
Credit: © Museum Africa
Archive: Museum Africa
Type: Document -
1912: SANNC founded
Description: The South African Native National Congress delegation to London to protest against the 1913 Land Act, June 1914.
Credit: © Drum Social Histories / Bailey’s African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Archive: Africa Media Online
Type: Photograph -
1913: First honorary doctorate for a woman
Description: Lucy Lloyd is awarded an honorary doctorate at the age of 78, a year before her death.
Credit: © Special Collections / University of Cape Town Libraries
Archive: University of Cape Town Libraries
Type: Photograph -
1914-18: The First World War
Description: Headline declaring the start of World War I, Pretoria News, 1914.
Credit: © Museum Africa
Archive: Museum Africa
Type: Document -
1916: Fort Hare opens
Description: Fort Hare students (from left) Oliver Tambo, Congress Mbata and Lancelot Gama, Alice, 1940. All three will later rise to political prominence.
Credit: © Dr Lancelot Gama, courtesy of Luli Callinicos
Archive: Luli Callinicos Private Collection
Type: Photograph -
1916: The University of South Africa
Description: Register of honorary doctorates conferred by the University of the Cape of Good Hope and later Unisa, 1899 to 1987.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Document