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EVENTS

May

9 May - Paul Kruger becomes President of South African Republic

28 May - Two ships, the ''Agnes'' (94 tonne) and the ''Christina'' (196 tonne), run ashore at Plettenberg Bay

July

26 July - The Stellaland republic is declared

September

2 September - Kimberley becomes the first town in the Southern Hemisphere to install Electric Street Lighting .

Unknown date

The Dutch language is once again admitted as an official language alongside English in the Cape Colony

The Goshen republic is declared

BIRTHS

24 February - Jan Gysbert Hugo Bosman (aka Bosman de Ravelli), concert Pianist and Composer , is born in Piketberg

DEATHS