1817 – Steinkopf Mission Station was established at Besondermeid by the London Missionary Society

1838 – The mission headquarters was moved to Kookfontein

1840 – The London Missionary Society was ended Steinkopf

1840 – Rhenish Missionary Society took over the mission work

1847 – Steinkopf became part of the Cape Colony

1848 – The last of the local Nama chiefs Vigiland Orlam died

1850 – Commercial copper mining started Namaqualand

1876 – The railway line of the copper train between Port Nolloth and the copper mines reached Steinkopf

1902 – The Boers invaded Steinkopf during the Anglo-Boer War

1913 – Direct government rule was introduced in Steinkopf by the 1909 Mission Stations and Communal Reserves Act

1934 – The Dutch Reformed Mission Church took over mission work at Steinkopf

1948 – The Government introduced the apartheid system which formally declared Steinkopf as a Coloured Rural Area

1994 – The First Democratic Elections happened in South Africa

2000 – Steinkopf became part of the Nama Khoi Municipality