Events

• 23 April - Hendrik Cloete is appointed Commissioner of Natal
• 4 May - Natal
  Colony of Natal
  The Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa. It was proclaimed a British colony on May 4, 1843 after the British government had annexed the Boer Republic of Natalia, and on 31 May 1910 combined with three other colonies to form the Union of South Africa, as one of its...
  
   is proclaimed a British colony
• 8 August - The Volksraad
  Volksraad
  The Volksraad was the parliament of the former South African Republic , which existed from 1857 to 1902 in part of what is now the South Africa. The body ceased to exist after the British victory in the Second Anglo-Boer War. The Volksraad sat in session in Ou Raadsaal in Church Square, Pretoria...
  
   of Natal agrees to the terms of British annexation as a Crown Colony
  Crown colony
  A Crown colony, also known in the 17th century as royal colony, was a type of colonial administration of the English and later British Empire....
  
  , resulting in a Trek of Boers to territories outside Natal