1780s in South Africa
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The following lists events that happened during the 1780s in South Africa.

Events

1780

  • The Fish River is made the eastern boundary of the Cape Colony
  • July - The Sultan of Mysore, India declares war on the British
  • October - Joachim van Plettenberg, Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony appoints Adriaan van Jaarsveld, to be field commandant over the eastern front.[1]
  • 16 December - The Netherlands joins the League of Armed Neutrality that is formed by Catherine the Great of Russia to protest British interference with the shipping of neutral nations during the war. Russia, Sweden, Prussia, Denmark, Austria, Portugal and Italy all join
  • 20 December - Britain declares war on the Netherlands
  • French troops arrive at the Cape Colony to guard it against the English

1781

1782

  • April - François Le Vaillant, French explorer, collector and ornithologist, arrives in the Cape Colony and travels until 1785[3]
  • 30 April - The paper rix dollars is issued for the first time in the Cape[3]
  • Grosvenor, wreck, Pondoland coast of South Africa
  • British forces capture the French outpost of Cuddalore in the Indian Ocean, later recaptured
  • The Dutch port of Trincomalee on Ceylon is captured by the British, later recaptured back by the French

1783

  • 3 September - The Treaty of Paris is signed ending the war. The Dutch have lost the most from the war

The French troops departed the Cape

1785

1786

1787

  • The Dutch East India Company passed a law subjecting the nomadic Khoikhoi in the colony to certain restrictions

1789

Births

Deaths

References

  1. 1 2 "Conquest of the Eastern Cape 1779-1878 | South African History Online". Archived from the original on 2016-12-16. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
  2. "Americans defeat the British at Yorktown".
  3. 1 2 3 Henry Hall, 1859. Manual of South African Geography: Forming a Companion to the Map of South Africa to 16° South Latitude. Cape Town: S. Solomon. p. 161-2.

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