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EVENTS

1742

25 January - Adriaan Valckenier , Governor-General of the Dutch East India Company , is arrested in Cape Town on sundry charges

1743

The Governor-General of the Dutch East India Company , Von Imhoff visits the Cape

: - A Dutch Reformed Church is established in Roodezand ( Tulbagh )

1744

5 March - Georg Schmidt, the first Protestant missionary in South Africa, who worked with the Khoikhoi , returns to Europe

1745

The Dutch East India Company established a magistracy at Swellendam

The Dutch Reformed Church establish a congregation in Swartland ( Malmesbury )

1747

22 February - A day of prayer and fasting is held for the elimination of the locust plague from Table Valley

26 October - Swellendam is founded

BIRTHS

1746 - George Keith Elphinstone , Commissioner-general of the Cape

1747 - Simon Hendrik Frykenius

1748 - James Henry Craig , Commandant of the Cape

30 April 1749 - Jacob Abraham Uitenhage De Mist , Commissioner-general of the Cape

DEATHS

1743 - Jean De La Fontaine , Governor Of The Cape , dies