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Revision as of 01:52, 16 December 2009
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See also: 1880 in South Africa, other events of 1881, 1882 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
Events
January
- 28 January - The Boers defeat the British in the Battle of Laing's Nek during the First Boer War
February
- 8 February - The Boers defeat the British in the Battle of Schuinshoogte during the First Boer War
- 27 February - The Boers defeat the British in theBattle of Majuba Hill during the First Boer War
March
- 21 March - Peace is declared and Britain recognizes the South African Republic
- 26 March - Reinhold Gregorowski is appointed a judge in the Orange Free State at the age of 25
August
- 3 August - Pretoria Convention peace treaty signed, officially ending the war between the Boers and the Britain
Unknown date
- The Tswana-Kora wars break out with white mercenary involvement
- The town of Roburnia is established as the capital of the Republic of New Scotland, it was renamed to Amsterdam in 1882
- Gold is discovered in the Barberton area
Births
- 23 April - Claude Pagdett Carter, a South African test cricket player is born in Durban
- 28 May - Danël Francois Malherbe, novelist, poet and dramatist, is born in Dal Josafat, Cape Colony
- November - Benjamin Jennings Caddy, a militant trade unionist who is regarded as the doyen of the trade union movement in South Africa, is born in Australia
Deaths
- 21 April - Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff, the 2nd president of the Orange Free State, dies in Weston, Pietermaritzburg at the age of 73
- 9 December - Thomas François Burgers, the 4th president of the South African Republic, dies at Richmond, Transvaal at the age of 47