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1850 in South Africa
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The following lists events that happened during 1850 in South Africa.
== Events ==
Wesleyan settlers arrive in Natal
The "Childe Herold", a British ship en route from Bombay to London is wrecked off Dassen Island, Cape Colony
23 April — A mass meeting is held in Cape Town to petition Queen Victoria to grant the Cape Colony a government
== Births ==
9 April — Julius Charles Wernher, financier and mine magnate
23 April — Andries Jacobus Bester, the Boer commandant of the Bethlehem commando, is born in Bloemfontein
4 September 1850 - Abraham Fischer, Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony. (d. 1913)
== References ==
See Years in South Africa for list of References