1760s in South Africa

	1760s in South Africa
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Timeline of South African history

Contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 References

Events

1760

Trekboers Jansz Coetse, Klaas Barends and others cross the Gariep River (now called the Orange River)

1763

11 September - The "La Fortune", a French man-of-war, is wrecked near Mossel Bay in the Cape Colony while on its way from Réunion

1766

112 slaves from Madagascar arrive in Cape Town after a slave uprising on board the slaver ship Meermin.

Births

1 February 1761 - Christian Hendrik Persoon, mycologist, is born in the Cape Colony
1762 - Sebastian Cornelis Nederburgh, Commissioner-general of the Cape
25 June 1763 - Huybert Dirck Campagne, satirist and author, is born in Tiel, the Netherlands

Deaths

1760 - Hendrik Swellengrebel, Governor of the Cape Colony, dies

References

See Timeline of South African history for list of References