1870 in South Africa

	1870 in South Africa
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List of years in South Africa

Incumbents

• Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa:
  • Sir Philip Wodehouse (until 19 May).
  • Charles Craufurd Hay (acting from 20 May to 30 December).
  • Sir Henry Barkly (from 31 December).
• Lieutenant-governor of the Colony of Natal: Robert William Keate.
• State President of the Orange Free State: Jan Brand.^[1]
• State President of the South African Republic: Marthinus Wessel Pretorius.^[2]

Events

May

• 20 – Charles Craufurd Hay becomes acting Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa.

July

• 30 – The Klipdrift Republic is proclaimed by a group of diamond miners with Stafford Parker as their President.

December

• 31 – Sir Henry Barkly is appointed Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa.

Date unknown

• The Alfred Basin in Table Bay Harbour, named after Prince Alfred, is completed.^[3][4][5]

Births

• 24 May – Jan Smuts, South African soldier and statesman. (d. 1950)

Deaths

• 11 March – Moshoeshoe I, King of Lesotho. (b. c. 1786)

Railways

Locomotives

• A second locomotive is at work on excavation and breakwater construction in Table Bay Harbour, a 0-4-0 saddle-tank engine believed to have been built by Hughes's Locomotive & Tramway Engine Works and delivered to the Cape at some time between 1863 and 1870.^[6][7]

References