1710s in South Africa

none 1710s August 2026 The following lists events that happened during the 1710s in South Africa. Events 1711 28 December - Willem Helot is appointed acting Governor of the Cape Colony 1713 Governor of the Cape Colony - Louis van Assenbergadmin 2014-01-11 The Dutch in South Africa, 1652-1795 and 1802-1806 https://www.colonialvoyage.com/dutch-south-africa/ 2025-03-01 Colonial Voyage 2021-02-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20210227005448/https://www.colonialvoyage.com/dutch-south-africa/ dead 16 March - A smallpox epidemic broke out at the Cape Colony. A smallpox outbreak kills 25% of the White Cape population and devastates the Cape Khoikhoi. The Khoikhoi, due to a lack of immunity, have their population nearly wiped.Smallpox Epidemic Strikes at the Cape South African History Online https://sahistory.org.za/dated-event/smallpox-epidemic-strikes-cape 2025-03-01 sahistory.org.zaPotgieter, D.J. et al. (eds) (1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, 4, p. 378.africanaunty 2015-07-13 Smallpox At The Cape Ancestors Research South Africa https://www.ancestors.co.za/smallpox-at-the-cape/ 2025-03-01 90% of the Khoikhoi population ends up being killed in the smallpox epidemic.Ross Robert Smallpox at the Cape of Good Hope in the Eighteenth Century https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/access/item%3A3140270/view 1 March 2025 ScholarlyPublicationsSee G. McC. Theal (ed.), Records of the Cape Colony (36 vols-, London, 1897-1905), XXIV, 440.Viljoen, Russel S. (1995). "Disease and Society: VOC Cape Town, Its People, and the Smallpox Epidemics of 1713, 1755, and 1767," Kleio 27 Cape slaves flee but are captured and punished. Thomas van Bengalen is hanged, and the leader Tromp van Madagascar is sentenced to impalement but commits suicide.General South African History Timeline: 1700s South African History Online https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/general-south-african-history-timeline-1700s 2025-03-01 www.sahistory.org.za Other Cape captives have their Achilles tendons severed or feet broken on the wheel. A Cape labour shortage follows, land becomes "ownerless" and is taken by colonial cattle farmers.Theals History of the Cape, Standard Encyclopaedia of South AfricaIllustrated History of South Africa: The Real Story. Reader's Digest.South Africa - History https://www.mongabay.com/reference/country_studies/south-africa/HISTORY.html 2025-03-01 www.mongabay.com 1714 28 March - Maurits Pasques de Chavonnes is appointed Governor of the Cape 1715 The Trek Boers raid Khoikhoi cattle near Saldanha Bay.General South African History Timeline: 1700s South African History Online https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/general-south-african-history-timeline-1700s 2025-03-02 www.sahistory.org.zaAhjum, S., ‘The Law of the (White) Father: Psychoanalysis, “Paternalism”, and the Historiography of Cape Slave Women’, in G. Campbell, S. Miers and J. C. Miller (eds.), Women and Slavery, Volume 1: Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2007), 83–108. A list of all the free men at the Dutch Cape Colony is compiled for 1715. It is divided into three districts; the Cape of Good Hope, Stellenbosch and the Drakenstein.South African Records Transcribed - Cape Muster Roll 1715/16 - Free Men https://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/muster-rolls/cape-archives-vc-copies/409-cape-muster-roll-1715 2025-03-02 www.eggsa.org A new lease renewal condition is introduced. Leases had to be renewed one month after expiration, with penalties for each emission.Gie M.C. 23 November 1810 Letter from M. C. Gie, Esqre., to Deputy Secretary Bird. https://ia801206.us.archive.org/6/items/recordsofcapecol00thea_12/recordsofcapecol00thea_12.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com 2 March 2025 ia801206.us.archive.org Khoisan in Land van Waveren attack the European farmers, stealing 200 cattle and several thousand sheep.Green Erik https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350263215 Creating the Cape Colony: The Political Economy of Settler Colonization 2022 Bloomsbury Academic 978-1-350-25823-5 10.5040/9781350263215 The Constantia estate is sold after the Dutch government orders the confiscation of the Van der Stel lands.Noble John DESCRIPTIVE HANDBOOK OF THE CAPE COLONY: ITS CONDITION AND RESOURCES. 1875 THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES California, Los Angeles en Abraham de Villiers acquires the Boschendal farm estate."A Valley Emergent: Groot-Drakenstein", by Eric Lloyd Williams, published by Anglo American Corporation. The Lady of Good Hope is introduced to the coat of arms of the Cape Colony.A proclamation issued in 1715 made Hope the hallmark for silverware assayed at the Cape. The Isle de France in the Indian Ocean becomes a French colony.Republic of Mauritius http://www.gov.mu/portal/site/abtmtius/menuitem.163fea3f13ca22984d57241079b521ca/ 2025-05-03 2012-09-19 https://web.archive.org/web/20120919022425/http://www.gov.mu/portal/site/abtmtius/menuitem.163fea3f13ca22984d57241079b521ca/ bot: unknown 1717 The system of freehold title to land in the Cape ends Deaths 27 December 1711 - Louis van Assenburgh, Governor of the Cape, dies 24 June 1712 - Simon van der Stel, Governor of the Cape, died at his estate in Constantia, Cape Colony References See Years in South Africa for list of references.