Zululand

State · 1820–1897 CE · at its largest around 1848 CE

The Zulu kingdom in southeastern Africa, built into a powerful military state by Shaka, which was defeated by Britain in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.

Its battles, in Battle View

• Battle of Isandlwana (1879 CE)

On its lands while it lasted

• Shaka (c. 1787 CE – 1828 CE): King who transformed the Zulu into a powerful military kingdom in the 1810s–1820s; assassinated by his half-brothers in 1828.
• Mfecane (c. 1815–1840 CE): Period of widespread warfare and population upheaval in southern Africa linked to the rise of the Zulu kingdom and other states.
• Battle of Blood River (1838 CE): Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius defeated a much larger Zulu army on 16 December 1838 at the Ncome River.
• Battle of Isandlwana (1879 CE): Zulu army defeated a British force on 22 January 1879 at the start of the Anglo-Zulu War, one of the worst defeats of a colonial army by an African force.
• Vryheid (1884 CE): Capital of Nieuwe Republiek (1885–1888).

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