Timeline Monday 12 March 1888

Events on Monday 12 March 1888 1

• 1888 De Beers Consolidated Mines is formed Cecil Rhodes consolidates South African diamond mining Cecil Rhodes merged competing diamond-mining operations in Kimberley to form De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited on 12 March 1888. The new company quickly gained control of most of the world's diamond production. De Beers went on to dominate the global diamond trade for more than a century.