Shaka kaSenzangakhona ( - 24 September 1828), also known as Shaka (the) Zulu and Sigidi kaSenzangakhona, was the king of the Zulu Kingdom from 1816 to 1828. One of the most influential monarchs of the Zulu, he ordered wide-reaching reforms that reorganized the military into a formidable force.

King Shaka was born in the lunar month of uNtulikazi (July) in 1787, in Mthonjaneni,