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''See also:''
1833 in South Africa,
other events of 1834,
1835 in South Africa and the
Timeline of South African history.
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Events

Births

Deaths

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 in South Africa

★ 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 Troika member, is born near Cango in the Oudtshoorn district of Cape Colony

★ 15 April - Thomas François Burgers, the forth president of the South African Republic, is born on Langefontein farm in the Camdeboo district of Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony

Deaths