Historedia
Episode 4 of 4

Royal Charter Comes Into Effect

When
20 December 1889
Where
unspecified
Part of
British South Africa Company receives its Royal Charter

The Royal Charter of the British South Africa Company came into effect on 20 December 1889.

The Royal Charter of the British South Africa Company came into effect on 20 December 1889. In a related passage, Rhodes is described as having obtained a charter from the British Government in 1889, armed with the Rudd Concession, empowering the company to rule, police, and make new treaties and concessions from the Limpopo River to the great lakes of Central Africa; the passages do not tie those powers to the specific effective date.

Sources

  1. British South Africa Company Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-09
  2. Cecil Rhodes Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-05

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.