1881 in South Africa

1881 in South Africa

"See also:"
1880 in South Africa,
other events of 1881,
1882 in South Africa and the
Timeline of South African history.

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Events

January

* 28 January - The Boers defeat the British in the Battle of Laing's Nek during the First Boer War

February

* 8 February - The Boers defeat the British in the Battle of Schuinshoogte during the First Boer War
* 27 February - The Boers defeat the British in theBattle of Majuba Hill during the First Boer War

March

* 21 March - Peace is declared and Britain recognizes the South African Republic
* 26 March - Reinhold Gregorowski is appointed a judge in the Orange Free State at the age of 25

August

* 3 August - Pretoria Convention peace treaty signed, officially ending the war between the Boers and the Britain

Unknown date

* The Tswana-Kora wars break out with white mercenary involvement
* The town of Roburnia is established as the capital of the Republic of New Scotland, it was renamed to Amsterdam in 1882
* Gold is discovered in the Barberton area

Births

* 23 April - Claude Pagdett Carter, a South African test cricket player is born in Durban
* 28 May - Danël Francois Malherbe, novelist, poet and dramatist, is born in Dal Josafat, Cape Colony
* November - Benjamin Jennings Caddy, a militant trade unionist who is regarded as the doyen of the trade union movement in South Africa, is born in Australia

Deaths

* 21 April - Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff, the 2nd president of the Orange Free State, dies in Weston, Pietermaritzburg at the age of 73
* 9 December - Thomas François Burgers, the 4th president of the South African Republic, dies at Richmond, Transvaal at the age of 47


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