1740s in South Africa

1740s in South Africa

"See also:"
1730s in South Africa,
other events of 1740s,
1750s in South Africa and the
Timeline of South African history.

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Events

1741

* Henri Guillaume Bossau, founder of the Boshoff family in South Africa and great-grandfather of Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff, 2nd state president of the Orange Free State, arrives in Cape Town from Bayonne, France as locksmith in the service of the Dutch East India Company

1742

* 25 January - Adriaan Valckenier, Governor-General of the Dutch East India Company, is arrested in Cape Town on sundry charges

1743

* The Governor-General of the Dutch East India Company, Von Imhoff visits the Cape: - Simon's Bay is chosen to be used as a harbour between mid-May and mid-August because of the damage caused by the winter storms in Table Bay: - A Dutch Reformed Church is established in Roodezand (Tulbagh)

1744

* 5 March - Georg Schmidt, the first Protestant missionary in South Africa, who worked with the Khoikhoi, returns to Europe

1745

* The Dutch East India Company established a magistracy at Swellendam
* The Dutch Reformed Church establish a congregation in Swartland (Malmesbury)

1747

* 22 February - A day of prayer and fasting is held for the elimination of the locust plague from Table Valley
* 26 October - Swellendam is founded

Births

* 1746 - George Keith Elphinstone, Commissioner-general of the Cape
* 1747 - Simon Hendrik Frykenius
* 1748 - James Henry Craig, Commandant of the Cape
*28 August 1748 - Tjaart van der Walt, farmer and field commandant in the 3rd Cape Frontier War is born in the Roggeveld district of Sutherland, Cape Colony
* 30 April 1749 - Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist, Commissioner-general of the Cape

Deaths

* 1743 - Jean de la Fontaine, Governor of the Cape, dies

References

See Timeline of South African history for list of References


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