Vryheid

City · 1884 CE · in Sub-Saharan Africa

Capital of Nieuwe Republiek (1885–1888).

Addis Ababa (1886 CE): Capital of Ethiopia founded in 1886 by Menelik II and Empress Taytu; seat of the African Union.
Ashgabat (1881 CE): Capital of Turkmenistan (1992–today).
Kinshasa (1881 CE): Founded as Léopoldville by Henry Morton Stanley in 1881, it is the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and one of Africa's largest cities.
Brazzaville (1880 CE): Capital of Free French (1940–1943).
Sofia (c. 1880 CE): Capital of Principality of Bulgaria (1880–1908), Kingdom of Bulgaria (1947–1947), People's Republic of Bulgaria (1948–1990), and 1 more.
Hobyow (c. 1880 CE): Capital of Sultanate of Hobyo (1880–1894).
Djibouti (1888 CE): Capital of Republic of Djibouti (1979–today).
Yaoundé (1888 CE): Capital of Republic of Cameroon (1960–today).
Bangui (1889 CE): Capital of Central African Republic (1961–today).
Tokyo City (1889–1943 CE): Capital of Empire of Japan (1889–1943).

Around the same time and place

Nelson Mandela (1918 CE – 2013 CE): Anti-apartheid leader imprisoned for 27 years who became South Africa's first Black president in 1994 and shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.
Second Boer War (1899–1902 CE): War between the British Empire and the Boer republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free State; British concentration camps caused the deaths of many Boer and Black African civilians.
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.
Great Trek (c. 1835–1846 CE): Thousands of Dutch-speaking settlers (Voortrekkers) left the British-ruled Cape Colony for the interior, founding republics in Natal, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal and clashing with the Ndebele and Zulu.
Pietermaritzburg (1839 CE): Capital of Natalia Republic (1840–1843).
Windhoek (1840 CE): Capital of Namibia (1990–today).
Bloemfontein (1846 CE): Capital of Free Orange State (1856–1899), South Africa (1932–today).
Livingstone’s crossing of Africa (1853–1856 CE): David Livingstone travelled from the upper Zambezi to Luanda on the Atlantic and then east to Quelimane on the Indian Ocean, sighting Victoria Falls in 1855; the crossing made him famous in Britain.