Events

• Xhosas clash with the white settlers on the eastern frontier starting the 4th Cape Frontier War
• Taps and iron pipes are installed for the first time in Cape Town
  Cape Town
  Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
  
  
• The settlement of Caledon
  Caledon, Western Cape
  Caledon is a town in the Overberg region in the Western Cape province of South Africa, located about east of Cape Town. it had a population of 10,650. It is located in, and the seat of, the Theewaterskloof Local Municipality....
  
   is established with the building of a Dutch Reformed Church
  Dutch Reformed Church
  The Dutch Reformed Church was a Reformed Christian denomination in the Netherlands. It existed from the 1570s to 2004, the year it merged with the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands to form the Protestant Church in the...
  
  
• Regular circuit courts are introduced
• 23 April - The settlement of George Town
  George, Western Cape
  George is a city with 203,253 inhabitants in South Africa's Western Cape province. The city is a popular holiday and conference centre and the administrative and commercial hub of the Garden Route.- Location :...
  
   is founded
• 5 July - Henry George Grey is re-appointed provisional Governor of the Cape Colony
• 6 September - Sir John Francis Cradock is appointed Governor of the Cape Colony