1819 in South Africa

Events

• The 5th Cape Frontier War ends
• Dutch Reformed Church congregations are founded in Beaufort West and Somerset West

Births

• 17 September - Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, the first president of the South African Republic and founder of Pretoria, is born on the farm Pretoriuskloof in the Graaff-Reinet district of the Cape Colony

References

See Timeline of South African history for list of References