Events

• The settlement of Clanwilliam is established
• The slave trade is abolished.

Births

• 31 January - Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff, the 2nd president of the Orange Free State
  Orange Free State
  The Orange Free State was an independent Boer republic in southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, and later a British colony and a province of the Union of South Africa. It is the historical precursor to the present-day Free State province...
  
   from 1855 to 1859, is born in Kogmanskloof, Montagu.