Timeline of Durban
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Durban in the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. == 19th century == 1824 - British settlement of Port Natal established on land "acquired...through treaties with the Zulu king Shaka." 1835 - Settlement renamed "D'Urban" after British colonial administrator Benjamin D'Urban.