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8 January - British troops land at Losperds Bay, between Bloubergstrand and Melkbosstrand in the Cape Colony .

---The Battle of Blaauwberg takes place between the British and the Dutch colonists.

10 January - Governor Jan Willem Janssens capitulates and Sir David Baird is appointed Governor of the Cape

The first regular inland postal service is started

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