1870
British adventurer and miner in South Africa Stradford Parker declares the mining settlement Klipdrift, hastily built to take advantage of newly discovered diamonds at Kimberley, is a republic. He declares himself president. He renames Klipdrift “Parkington,” after himself, and begins to collect taxes, at gunpoint. The “Digger’s Republic” lasts one year until Britain annexes the area to establish order.