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The following lists events that happened during 1847 in South Africa.

Events

Source:

  • The Montagu Pass is opened.
  • Sugar cane plantations are started in Natal.
  • The settlement of East London is established.
  • Robert Gray is ordained as the first Bishop of Cape Town in Westminster Abbey, London.
  • The AmaXhosa Resistance rejects British peace terms, but avoids direct warfare. The British then destroy homes, cattle, and crops to force a surrender.
  • Harry Smith is appointed as Cape Governor, and begins to pursue an aggressive expansion policy.
  • The British Kaffraria Colony is established on AmaXhosa land, and the AmaXhosa are made British subjects.
  • Harry Smith overturns Maitland's agreement, seizing rental payments for the Crown and allowing white settlement on Griqua land.
  • Harry Smith claims land between the Orange and Vaal rivers for Britain but restricts white settlement, except in Griqualand.
  • With British support, Moshoeshoe unifies Basotho chiefdoms and secures protection from white settlers.

Births

  • 9 July - Henrietta Stockdale, pioneer of nursing in the Cape Colony, is born in Nottinghamshire, England
  • 22 October - Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey, Boer general, is born near Winburg, Free State

References

See Years in South Africa for list of References