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EVENTS

1780

The Fish River is made the eastern boundary of the Cape Colony

July - The Sultan Of Mysore , India declares war on the British

16 December - The Netherlands joins the League Of Armed Neutrality that is formed by Catherine The Great of Russia to protest British interference with the shipping of neutral nations during the war. Russia, Sweden , Prussia , Denmark , Austria , Portugal and Italy all join

20 December - Britain declares war on the Netherlands

French troops arrive at the Cape Colony to guard it against the English

1781

American and French soldiers and French naval forces force the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown

3 February - British forces captured St Eustatius and neutralises all other Dutch outlets in the West Indies and in Surinam . French and Spanish forces later recaputed the island for the Dutch

August - The Dutch fleet is defeated at Dogger Bank in the English Channel

1782

The paper rix dollars is issued for the first time in the Cape

British forces capture the French outpost of Cuddalore in the Indian Ocean , later recaputed back

The Dutch port of Trincomalee on Ceylon is captured by the British, later recaptured back by the French

1783

3 September - The Treaty Of Paris is signed ending the war. The Dutch have lost the most from the war

1784

The French troops departed the Cape

1785

14 February Cornelis Jacob Van De Graaff is appointed Governor of the Cape

3 May - The Dutch East India Company ship, the ''Brederode'', carrying a cargo of Porcelain , Tin and Spice s, runs aground near Cape Agulhas

1786

The Dutch East India Company established a magistracy at Graaff Reinet

1787

The Dutch East India Company passed a law subjecting the nomadic Khoikhoi in the colony to certain restrictions

1789

The start of the French Revolution

The Dutch East India Company, filled with corruption, becomes financially unstable

Merino Sheep is imported from the Netherlands

BIRTHS

10 January 1780 - Martin Heinrich Carl Lichtenstein , Physician , Explorer and Zoologist , is born in Hamburg , Germany

4 June 1787 - Leopold Marquard , educationist and Missionary to Southern Africa, is born in Westphalia , Germany

DEATHS