1857 in South Africa
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Events
- January
- 6 – Marthinus Wessel Pretorius becomes the first President of the South African Republic (Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek).
- June
- 29 – Act no. 10 of 29 June 1857 grants the Cape Town Railway and Dock Company approval to construct a 57-mile long (92-kilometre) railway between Cape Town and Wellington.[1]
- Unknown date
- Robert Moffat completes Old Testament Bible translation into Setswana.
- About 157 Irish women arrive on the ship Lady Kennaway and settle in British Kaffraria.
- The first Legislative Council is selected in the Natal Colony.
- The Union Steam Ship Company wins the first mail contract for regular mail service between Great Britain and South Africa.
- The Cape Point Lighthouse at Cape Point is built.
- Building of the Roman Rock Lighthouse at the entrance to Simon's Town starts and only completed in 1861.
Births
- 2 October – Martinus Theunis Steyn, South African lawyer, politician and statesman, last president of the independent Orange Free State.
Deaths
- 15 December – Anna Maria Truter (80), a Cape Colony botanical artist and wife of Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, dies in England.
References
- ↑ Espitalier, T.J.; Day, W.A.J. (1943). The Locomotive in South Africa - A Brief History of Railway Development. Chapter I - The Period of the 4 ft. 8½ in. Gauge. South African Railways and Harbours Magazine, June 1943. pp. 437-440.
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