1730s in South Africa
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The following lists events that happened during the 1730s in South Africa. Jan de la Fontaine continues as Governor of the Cape Colony.[1]
Events
[edit]1730
[edit]- The Dutch East India Company imports slaves from Mozambique and Zanzibar[2]
- The first trekboers reach the George area, trek inland into Langkloof
- 8 March - Jan de la Fontaine becomes Governor of the Cape Colony
- 8 April - The first Jewish congregation consecrates their synagogue
- Phalo becomes ruler of the AmaXhosa, but rivalry between his sons ended up causing political rifts.
- A Dutch commando kills six Khoi-San, captures a woman and three children. This is the first recorded instance of indigenous women and children taken as war captives for forced labor.
- The VOC abandons Delagoa Bay after its failed occupation, and 103 soldiers return to the Cape Colony.
- The French language disappears from the Huguenot immigrants within two generations, an unprecedented event in French emigration history.[3]
- The Little Karoo valley is reached by the Dutch South Africans.[4]
- The economic fortunes and profits of the VOC start to decline.[5]Over the next 50 years, 4 million guilders is drawn from the Asia capital stock, an liquid capital in Europe decreases by 20 million guilders during the same period.[6]
1732
[edit]- The Trek Boers, the first Dutch farmers, settled along the Olifants River
1733
[edit]- Matthias Lotter, master Gold and Silver Smith arrives at the Cape.
1734
[edit]- Jan de la Fontaine, Governor of the Cape,[7] claims Mossel Bay for the Dutch East India Company and the Great Brak River is proclaimed the eastern boundary of Cape
- The VOC establishes an administrative post at Rietvlei.[8]
- VOC outposts are established at Riviersonderend and St Helena Bay.[9][10]
- The Great Brak River is declared the eastern boundary of the Cape Colony.
- Jan de la Fontaine colonizes Mossel Bay by erecting a stone beacon with the VOC and Dutch Republic coats of arms.[11][12][13]
- Jan Smiesing, a former slave and schoolteacher, dies.[14][15][16]
1736
[edit]- 14 November Adriaan van Kervel is appointed Governor of the Cape
- Phalo becomes King of the Xhosa Nation
1737
[edit]- 21 May - Nine ships are wrecked in a gale in Table Bay with a loss of 208 lives
- 9 July - George Schmidt, the first Protestant missionary (Moravian Brethren) in southern Africa, arrives at the Cape
- 20 September - Daniël van den Henghel is appointed acting Governor of the Cape
- 18 December - The first Moravian mission station in South Africa is established in Genadendal near present-day Caledon by George Schmidt, "The Apostle of the Hottentots"
1739
[edit]- 1 March - Etienne Barbier's insurrection at Paarl
- 1 April Hendrik Swellengrebel becomes the first South African-born governor when he is appointed Governor of the Cape
Deaths
[edit]- 1733 - Willem Adriaan van der Stel, Governor of the Cape, dies
- 1737 - Adriaan van Kervel, Governor of the Cape, dies
References
[edit]- ^ "Intro (African) to the Resolutions of Cape of Good Hope / VOC-bevelvoerders aan die Kaap die Goeie Hoop". web.archive.org. 2005-03-24. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
- ^ "General South African History Timeline: 1700s | South African History Online". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
- ^ "The Huguenots in South Africa". museeprotestant.org. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
- ^ admin (2014-01-11). "The Dutch in South Africa, 1652-1795 and 1802-1806". Colonial Voyage. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
- ^ De Vries & Van der Woude 1997, pp. 449–455.
- ^ Gaastra, Femme (2003), The Dutch East India Company: Expansion and Decline (Zutphen: Walberg Pers).
- ^ "Intro (African) to the Resolutions of Cape of Good Hope / VOC-bevelvoerders aan die Kaap die Goeie Hoop". 2005-03-24. Archived from the original on 24 March 2005. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
- ^ "General South African History Timeline: 1700s | South African History Online". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
- ^ Sleigh, Dan (2004). Die buiteposte: VOC-buiteposte onder Kaapse bestuur 1652-1795 (1. uitgawe; 3. druk ed.). Pretoria: Protea Boekhuis. ISBN 978-1-86919-085-9.
- ^ "Taking a look into Mossel Bay's history". Mossel Bay Advertiser. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
- ^ "Jan de la Fontaine becomes Governor at the Cape | South African History Online". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
- ^ Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds) (1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 3, p. 625.|Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.
- ^ admin (2014-01-11). "The Dutch in South Africa, 1652-1795 and 1802-1806". Colonial Voyage. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
- ^ "Jan Smiesing | South African History Online". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
- ^ Shell and Dick, ‘Jan Smiesing, Slave Lodge schoolmaster and healer, 1697 – 1734’, p.148
- ^ Dick, The hidden history of South Africa's book and reading cultures, p. 17.
Bibliography
[edit]See Years in South Africa for further sources.