1760s in south africa
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The following lists events that happened during the 1760s in South Africa.
Events
= 1760
=trekboers Jansz Coetse, Klas Barends and others cross the Gariep River (now called the Orange River)
= 1763
=11 September – The "La Fortune", a French man-of-war, is wrecked near Mossel Bay in the Cape Colony while on its way from Réunion
= 1766
=112 slaves from Madagascar arrive in Cape Town after a slave uprising on board the slaver ship Meermin.
Births
1 February 1761 – Christian Hendrik Persoon, mycologist, is born in the Cape Colony
Deaths
1760 – Hendrik Swellengrebel, Governor of the Cape Colony, dies
References
See Years in South Africa for list of References