Events

• Bergenaar Rebellion
• George Thompson travels inland and names the Augrabies Falls the Cataract of King George
• A road is built through the Fransch Hoek Pass
• 30 January - Lord Charles Henry Somerset issues a proclamation prohibiting the use of Dutch
  Dutch language
  Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
  
   in legal courts, starting on the 1 March
• 5 March - The South African Journal and the Zuid-Afrikaansche Tijdschrift is launched 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...
  
  
• 27 August -Francis Farewell
  Francis Farewell
  Lieutenant Francis George Farewell , the father of the Port Natal Colony in South Africa, was born at Holbrook House near Wincanton in the Vale of Blackmore in 1784. His father was Reverend Samuel Farewell, who died when Francis was young....
  
   hoists the Union Jack at Port Natal
  Durban
  Durban is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the third largest city in South Africa. It forms part of the eThekwini metropolitan municipality. Durban is famous for being the busiest port in South Africa. It is also seen as one of the major centres of tourism...
  
    after the Zulu king, Shaka
  Shaka
  Shaka kaSenzangakhona , also known as Shaka Zulu , was the most influential leader of the Zulu Kingdom....
  
  , grants the port to establish a trading post
  Trading post
  A trading post was a place or establishment in historic Northern America where the trading of goods took place. The preferred travel route to a trading post or between trading posts, was known as a trade route....