YEAR |
DATE |
EVENT |
GOVERNOR |
1652 |
7 april |
Dutch East India Company Colony |
Jan van Riebeek |
1662 |
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Zacharias Wagenaer |
1666 |
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Cornelis van Quaelberg |
1668 |
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Jacob Borghorst |
1670 |
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Pieter Hackius |
1671 |
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Albert van Breugel |
1672 |
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Isbrand Goske |
1676 |
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Johan Bax dit van Herenthals |
1678 |
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Hendrik Crudop |
1679 |
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Willem Adriaan van der Stel |
1707 |
3 june |
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Johan Cornelis d'Ableing |
1708 |
1 february |
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Lodewijk van Assenburgh |
1711 |
27 december |
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Willem Helot |
1714 |
28 march |
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Maurits Pasques de Chavonnes |
1724 |
8 september |
|
Jean de la Fontaine (I) |
1727 |
25 february |
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Pieter Gysbert Noodt |
1729 |
23 april |
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Jean de la Fontaine (II) |
1737 |
31 august |
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Adriaan van Kervel |
1737 |
20 september |
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Daniel van den Henghel |
1739 |
14 april |
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Hendrik Swellengrebel |
1751 |
25 february |
|
Ryk Tulbagh |
1771 |
12 august |
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Joachim Ammema van Plattenberg, Baron van Plattenberg |
1785 |
14 february |
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Cornelius Jacob van de Graaf
|
1791 |
24 january |
|
Johan Isaak Rhenius |
1792 |
3 july |
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Sebastian Cornelis Nederburgh |
1793 |
2 september |
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Abraham Josias Sluysken |
1795 |
16 september |
UK Occupation |
Sir George Keith Elphinstone |
1795 |
15 november |
|
James Henry Craig |
1797 |
5 march |
UK colony |
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1797 |
5 may |
|
George Macartney, Earl Macartney |
1798 |
20 november |
|
Francis Dundas (I) |
1799 |
10 december |
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Sir George Yonge |
1801 |
21 april |
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Francis Dundas (II) |
1803 |
21 february |
Dutch Colony - Batavian Republic |
Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist |
1804 |
25 september |
|
Jan Willem Janssens |
YEAR |
DATE |
EVENT |
PRIME MINISTER |
GOVERNOR |
1806 |
10 january |
UK Colony |
|
Sir David Baird |
1807 |
17 january |
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Henry George Grey (I) |
1807 |
22 may |
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Du Pré Alexander, Earl of Caledon |
1811 |
5 july |
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Henry George Grey (II) |
1811 |
6 september |
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Sir John Francis Cradock |
1814 |
6 april |
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Lord Charles Henry Somerset |
1826 |
5 march |
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Richard Bourke |
1828 |
9 september |
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Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole |
1833 |
10 august |
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Thomas Francis Wade |
1834 |
10 january |
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Sir Benjamin D'Urban |
1838 |
22 january |
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Sir George Thomas Napier |
1844 |
18 march |
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Sir Peregrine Maitland |
1847 |
27 january |
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Sir Henry Eldred Pottinger |
1847 |
1 december |
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Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith |
1852 |
31 march |
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George Cathcart |
1854 |
26 may |
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Charles Henry Darling |
1854 |
5 december |
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Sir George Grey |
1861 |
15 august |
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Robert Henry Wynyard |
1862 |
15 january |
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Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse |
1870 |
20 may |
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Charles Craufurd Hay |
1870 |
31 december |
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Sir Henry Barkly |
1872 |
1 december |
UK self-governing Colony |
John Charles Molteno |
1877 |
31 march |
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Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere |
1878 |
6 february |
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John Gordon Sprigg (I) |
1880 |
15 september |
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Henry Hugh Clifford |
1880 |
27 september |
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Sir George Cumine Strahan |
1881 |
22 january |
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Hercules George Robert Robinson, Baron Rosmead (I) |
1881 |
9 may |
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Thomas Charles Scanlen |
1884 |
12 may |
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Thomas Upington |
1886 |
25 november |
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Sir John Gordon Sprigg (II) |
1889 |
1 may |
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Henry Augustus Smyth |
1889 |
13 december |
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Sir Henry Brougham Loch |
1890 |
17 july |
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Cecil John Rhodes |
1895 |
30 may |
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Hercules George Robert Robinson, Baron Rosmead (II) |
1896 |
13 january |
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Sir John Gordon Sprigg (III) |
1897 |
5 may |
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Sir Alfred Milner |
1898 |
13 october |
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William Philip Schreiner |
1900 |
18 january |
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Sir John Gordon Sprigg (IV) |
1901 |
6 march |
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Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson |
1904 |
22 february |
|
Leander Starr Jameson |
1908 |
3 february |
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John Xavier Merriman |