Events

• Xhosas clash with the white settlers on the Cape Colony
  Cape Colony
  The Cape Colony, part of modern South Africa, was established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652, with the founding of Cape Town. It was subsequently occupied by the British in 1795 when the Netherlands were occupied by revolutionary France, so that the French revolutionaries could not take...
  
  's eastern frontier starting the 7th Cape Frontier War, this war was also known as the War of the Axe
• The Voortrekkers
  Voortrekkers
  The Voortrekkers were emigrants during the 1830s and 1840s who left the Cape Colony moving into the interior of what is now South Africa...
  
   establish Bloemfontein
  Bloemfontein
  Bloemfontein is the capital city of the Free State Province of South Africa; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals – the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital.Bloemfontein is popularly and...
  
  
• Approximately 103 settlers start arriving in Port Elizabeth from war-torn Buenos Aires
  Buenos Aires
  Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
  
  , Argentina
  Argentina
  Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
  
  

Births

• 26 March - Christoffel Cornelis Froneman, an 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...
  
   commander and founder of the town Marquard
  Marquard
  Marquard is a small farming town in the Free State province of South Africa that serves Winburg in the northwest. The town was set up by an influential Dutch Reform minister, JJ Marquard with the help of Christoffel Cornelis Froneman, the commandant of the Orange Free State in 1905....
  
  , is born