Events
- The Zulu king Shaka started extending his kingdom, destroying other tribes along the way
- James Read produced first SeTswana book
- Andries Waterboer was elected the Griqua captain at Griquatown
- 17 March - The first British settlers arrived in Table Bay, Cape Town on the "Nautilus" and the "Chapman"
- 1 May - The "Albury" reaches Cape Town bringing settlers to Albany, South Africa. They arrive in Algoa Bay on 15 May.
- 2 May - "La Belle Alliance" reached Cape Town. She is brought British settlers to Algoa Bay.
- 4000 British settlers started arriving in Algoa Bay (Port Elizabeth), they settled in Grahamstown and along the frontier
- Port Elizabeth named by Sir Rufane Donkin
- The settlement of Worcester established
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.”
—C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)
“We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. “The king died and then the queen died” is a story. “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot. The time sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)