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EVENTS

15 January - John Herschel , an English Mathematician and Astronomer , arrives in Cape Town with his twenty-foot-long Telescope

21 December Xhosa armies attack the eastern regions of the Cape Colony starting the 6th Cape Frontier War that only ends in 1836 In South Africa

The emancipation of the estimated 39,000 slaves in the colony

The Bo-Kaap ''(Upper Cape)'' in the colony is established by Muslim ex-slaves

The colony's Legislative Council is formed

The Berlin Mission Society establishes a station at Bethulie

The Anglican St. John's Church is built in Bathurst

King William's Town is founded.

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