• Source: 1834 in South Africa

      • The following lists events that happened during 1834 in South Africa.


      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
      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 Triumvirate 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 Years in South Africa for list of References

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