1899 in South Africa

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See also: 1898 in South Africa, other events of 1899, 1900 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.

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Contents 1 Events 1.1 May 1.2 October 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events

[edit] May

• 5 May - Sir Alfred Milner, High Commissioner of South Africa and Governor of the Cape Colony sends a telegram to Joseph Chamberlain urging him to intervene in South African Republic

[edit] October

• 1 October - Jan Gysbert Hugo Bosman (aka Bosman de Ravelli), a concert pianist and composer leaves South Africa for London
• 11 October - The South African Republic declares war on Britain and launches the Second Boer War which only ends in 1902
• 14 October - Kimberley comes under siege by the Boers

[edit] Births

• 30 January - Max Theiler, a virologist and the first South African to receive a Nobel Prize (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), is born in Pretoria

[18 February] - [Aegidius Jean Blignaut], short story writer and creator of Hottentot Ruiter is born in Kroonstad.

[edit] Deaths

• 6 June - Henry Binns, sugar cane farmer, founder of the Umhlanga Valley Sugar Estate Company and Natal politician, dies in Pietermaritzburg at the age of 61