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EVENTS

1680

Land belonging to the Khoikhoi is given to Dutch farmers along the Eerste River in the Cape Colony

1681

March - Deported Islamic religious leaders arrive from Batavia , later to become the Cape Malay community

1682

8 June - The ''Johanna'', a British East Indiaman sailing from Kent to Surat , India under the command of Captain Robert Brown is shipwrecked off Cape Agulhas

1683

24 October - Olof Bergh , a Swedish explorer, arrived back in Cape Town from his second expedition to Namaqualand

1684

The Dutch East India Company unilaterally establishes price controls over hides, skins, Ivory and Ostrich Eggs in the Cape Colony

1685

The Cape Colonists send a commissioner to Europe to attract more settlers

Copper is discovered by the settlers in Namaqualand

Simon Van Der Stel , the Governor Of The Cape Colony , is granted a 900-morgen property and is named Groot Constantia

Simon van der Stel visits Namaqualand

1686

A Dutch Reformed Church is founded in Stellenbosch , Cape Colony

1687

Free burghers in the Cape Colony petition the Dutch East India Company to extend the Slave trade to private enterprise

The Paarl settlement is established in the Cape Colony

1688

April - French Huguenot Refugee s arrive after the revocation of the Edict Of Nantes

Simon Van Der Stel , the Governor Of The Cape Colony settles the Huguenot refugees in the present day Drakenstein , Franschhoek and Wellington areas which were beyond the Cape Colony and belonged to the Khoikhoi people

1689

Serious friction develops between the Huguenot s and the Dutch settlers

26 April - The French ship ''Normandie'' is captured by the Dutch in Table Bay

BIRTHS

1689 - Jean De La Fontaine , Governor Of The Cape , is born

DEATHS

1689 - Ijsbrand Goske , Governor of the Cape Colony , dies