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1760s in South Africa
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1760s
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The following lists events that happened during the 1760s in South Africa.
Events
1760
trekboers Jansz Coetse, Klas Barends and others cross the Gariep River (now called the Orange River)
1763
11 September – The "La Fortune", a French man-of-war, is wrecked near Mossel Bay in the Cape Colony while on its way from Réunion
1766
112 slaves from Madagascar arrive in Cape Town after a slave uprising on board the slaver ship Meermin.
Births
1 February 1761 – Christian Hendrik Persoon, mycologist, is born in the Cape Colony
Deaths
1760 – Hendrik Swellengrebel, Governor of the Cape Colony, dies
References
See Years in South Africa for list of References