1760s In South Africa

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EVENTS

1760

Trekboers Jansz Coetse, Klaas Barends and others cross the Gariep River (now called the Orange River )

1763

11 September - The "La Fortune", a French Man-of-war , is wrecked near Mossel Bay in the Cape Colony while on its way from Reunion

1766

112 Slave s from Madagascar arrive in Cape Town after a slave uprising on board the " Meermin ."

BIRTHS

1762 - Sebastian Cornelis Nederburgh , Commissioner-general of the Cape

25 June 1763 - Huybert Dirck Campagne , Satirist and Author , is born in Tiel , the Netherlands

DEATHS

1760 - Hendrik Swellengrebel , Governor Of The Cape , dies