Events

• The 8th Cape Frontier War ends
• The settlement of Hopetown
  Hopetown
  Hopetown lies at the edge of the Great Karoo in South Africa's Northern Cape province. It stands on an arid slope leading down to the Orange River. The first diamond discovered in South Africa, the Eureka Diamond, was found at Hopetown.-History:...
  
   is established
• Nicholaas Waterboer, eldest son of Andries Waterboer
  Andries Waterboer
  Andries Waterboer was a leader of the Griqua people. He was elected as their Kaptijn at Griquatown in 1820....
  
   succeeds as Griqua captain
• The settlement of Queenstown
  Queenstown, Eastern Cape
  Queenstown, named after Queen Victoria, is a town in the middle of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, roughly half way in between the towns of Cathcart and Sterkstroom. It is currently the commercial, administrative, and educational centre of the prosperous surrounding farming district...
  
   is established
• The settlement of Seymour is established
• The Union Steamship Line is founded
• the right to vote is granted to every property-owning male (including Africans) in the Cape Province. This right was abolished with the introduction of Apartheid in 1948

Births

• 5 July - Cecil John Rhodes
  Cecil John Rhodes
  Cecil John Rhodes PC, DCL was an English-born South African businessman, mining magnate, and politician. He was the founder of the diamond company De Beers, which today markets 40% of the world's rough diamonds and at one time marketed 90%...
  
  , businessman, mining magnate and politician, is born in Bishop's Stortford
  Bishop's Stortford
  Bishop's Stortford is a historic market town and civil parish in the district of East Hertfordshire in the county of Hertfordshire in England. It is situated just west of the M11 motorway, on the county boundary with Essex and is the closest large town to London Stansted Airport and part of the...
  
  , east Hertfordshire
  Hertfordshire
  Hertfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England. The county town is Hertford.The county is one of the Home Counties and lies inland, bordered by Greater London , Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and...
  
  , England
  England
  England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
  
  
• 20 August - Jan Ernst Abraham Volschenk
  Jan Ernst Abraham Volschenk
  Jan Ernst Abraham Volschenk , was a South African painter, noted for his majestic landscapes of the Langeberg Range in the Western Cape Province....
  
  , landscape painter
  Landscape art
  Landscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works landscape backgrounds for figures can still...
  
  , is born near Riversdale
  Riversdale, Western Cape
  Riversdale is a town located on the N2 highway between Cape Town and George on the Agulhas Coastal Plain of the southern Western Cape province of South Africa. It is an agricultural service orientated town, being a hub for shopping and other services for surrounding farming communities, smaller...
  
  , 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...