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A contextualized chronology of South African theatre and performance

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 Compiled by [[Temple Hauptfleisch]]
+== Aims ==
 == Structure and use ==
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 =The Chronology=
+Click on the period you are looking for.
 [[BC]]
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 [[Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries]]
+[[Sixteenth century]]
-== Sixteenth century ==
+[[Seventeenth Century]]
-== Seventeenth Century ==
-== Eighteenth Century ==
-== Nineteenth Century ==
-=== 1887AD ===
-'''[[Luscombe Searelle]] begins his theatrical activities The [[Rederijkerskamers|rederykerskamer]] called [[Aurora]] ceases its activities for the duration fo [[South African War|Anglo-Boer War]] hostilities.'''
-The Nederlandsche Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorwegmaatschappij is created to build a railway from Komatipoort to Johannesburg and Pretoria. 8 November 1887 - The Johannesburg Stock Exchange in established. Britain annexes Zululand, blocking the Transvaal’s attempts to find a route to the sea.
-''Strindberg writes The Father and publishes  Miss Julie. André Antoine opens Théâtre Libre in Paris.
-First Colonial Conference in London. Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. Esperanto devised by Lazarus Zamenhof In Warsaw. Electricity introduced in Japan. Edison invents the motor driven phonograph, using wx cylinders. .''
-== Twentieth Century ==
+[[Eighteenth Century]]
-== Twenty-first Century ==
+[[Nineteenth Century]]
+[[Twentieth Century]]
+[[Twenty-first Century]]
-'''TO BE INSERTED'''