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EVENTS

January

28 January - The Boers defeat the British in the Battle Of Laing's Nek during the First Boer War

February

8 February - The Boers defeat the British in the Battle Of Schuinshoogte during the First Boer War

27 February - The Boers defeat the British in the Battle Of Majuba Hill during the First Boer War

March

21 March - Peace is declared and Britain recognizes the South African Republic

26 March - Reinhold Gregorowski is appointed a judge in the Orange Free State at the age of 25

Unknown date

The Tswana -Kora wars break out with white mercenary involvement

The town of Roburnia is established as the capital of the Republic of New Scotland, it was renamed to Amsterdam in 1882

Gold is discovered in the Barberton area

BIRTHS

23 April - Claude Pagdett Carter , a South African Test Cricket player is born in Durban

28 May - Danël Francois Malherbe , novelist, poet and dramatist, is born in Dal Josafat , Cape Colony

November - Benjamin Jennings Caddy , a Militant Trade Union ist who is regarded as the doyen of the trade union movement in South Africa, is born in Australia

DEATHS

21 April - Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff , the 2nd president of the Orange Free State from 1855 to 1859, dies in Weston, Pietermaritzburg at the age of 73