1834 in South Africa

1834 in South Africa

"See also:"
1833 in South Africa,
other events of 1834,
1835 in South Africa and the
Timeline of South African history.

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Events

* 15 January - John Herschel, an English mathematician and astronomer, arrives in Cape Town with his twenty-foot-long telescope
* 21 December Xhosa armies attack the eastern regions of the Cape Colony starting the 6th Cape Frontier War that only ends in 1836 in South Africa
* The emancipation of the estimated 39,000 slaves in the colony
* The Bo-Kaap "(Upper Cape)" in the colony is established by Muslim ex-slaves
* The colony's Legislative Council is formed
* The Berlin Mission Society establishes a station at Bethulie
* The Anglican St. John's Church is built in Bathurst
* King William's Town is founded.

Births

* 20 January - Petrus Jacobus Joubert, a South African Republic Troika member, is born near Cango in the Oudtshoorn district of Cape Colony
* 15 April - Thomas François Burgers, the 4th state president of the South African Republic, is born on Langefontein farm in the Camdeboo district of Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony

References

See Timeline of South African history for list of References


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