1660s in South Africa

none August 2026 1660s The following lists events that happened during the 1660s in South Africa. Events 1660 The Dutch East India Company imports the first horses into the Cape from Batavia Jan Danaert leads a horseback expedition from the Cape settlement to the east and reaches what he names the Olifants River Pieter Everaert leads an unsuccessful horseback expedition from the Cape settlement to the north in an attempt to locate the land of the Namaqua 1661 Pieter Cruythoff is sent out from the Cape settlement to investigate the suitability of the interior for agriculture 1662 7 May - Jan van Riebeeck leaves the Cape on promotion to a position on the Council of Justice in Batavia 9 May - Zacharias Wagenaer succeeds Van Riebeeck as Commander of the Cape 1663 4 March - the Prince Edward Islands were discovered by Barent Barentszoon Lam of the Dutch East India Company ship Maerseveen, and named them Maerseveen (Marion) and Dina (Prince Edward).Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia Settler outposts are established in the Hottentots Holland and Saldanha Bay areas 1664 26 August - Isbrand Goske arrives at the Cape as Commissioner, and was instructed to select a site for the Castle of Good Hope 1665 18 August - The first Dutch Reformed Church congregation is founded at the Cape and J. van Arkel is appointed the first minister 1666 Settlements in Saldanha Bay and Vishoek are established The first Calvinist church built in the Cape Construction begins on a stone fort at the Cape (later known as the Castle of Good Hope), with work done by 300 sailors, soldiers, Khoikhoi, women, and slaves;General South African History Timeline: 1600s South African History Online https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/general-south-african-history-timeline-1600s 2025-02-23 www.sahistory.org.zaCastle Of Good Hope - History Of The Castle https://castleofgoodhope.co.za/index.php/news/100-news/149-history-of-the-castle 2025-02-23 castleofgoodhope.co.zaDe Kock W. 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Dictionary of South African biography 1976 Tafelberg for the Human sciences research council Human sciences research council 978-0-624-00856-9 Cape Town this replaces the previous wooden fort built by Jan van Riebeeck and his men 24 October - Cornelis van Quaelberg assumes duty as the Commander of the Cape Colony, after Zacharias Wagenaer resigns from his post.2005-03-24 Intro (African) to the Resolutions of Cape of Good Hope / VOC-bevelvoerders aan die Kaap die Goeie Hoop http://www.tanap.net/content/activities/documents/resolutions_Cape_of_Good_Hope/introduction_afrikaans/27.htm 2025-02-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20050324010058/http://www.tanap.net/content/activities/documents/resolutions_Cape_of_Good_Hope/introduction_afrikaans/27.htm 24 March 2005 Angela van Bengale, an early Cape slave, is freed with her three children.VAN BENGALE Angela https://www.stamouers.com/stamouers/surnames-v-z/21-van-bengale-angela 2025-02-23 www.stamouers.comNecrography: Death-Writing in the Colonial Museum https://doi.org/10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-19/conversation/p49 2025-02-23 doi.org 10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-19/conversation/p49 subscription 1667 The first Malays arrive as slaves 1668 Hieronimus Cruse is ordered to explore the southeast coast to Mossel Bay, and to return overland.General South African History Timeline: 1600s https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/general-south-african-history-timeline-1600s 2025-02-23 www.sahistory.org.zaTheal George McCall History and Ethnography of Africa South of the Zambesi, from the Settlement of the Portuguese at Sofala in September 1505 to the Conquest of the Cape Colony by the British in September 1795: Volume 2: Foundation of the Cape Colony by the Dutch 1909 Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-02333-7 Cambridge library collection. African Studies CambridgeF.A.S. June 1967 Aloes of Tropical Africa. By Gilbert Westacott Reynolds https://doi.org/10.2307/1216995 Taxon 16 3 206 10.2307/1216995 1216995 0040-0262 subscription Mountain passes https://doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e909490 2025-02-23 Brill’s New Pauly 10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e909490 subscription 16 June - Cornelis van Quaelberg is succeeded by Jacob Borghorst as Commander,2014-01-11 The Dutch in South Africa, 1652-1795 and 1802-1806 https://www.colonialvoyage.com/dutch-south-africa/ 2025-02-23 Colonial Voyage en-US 2021-02-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20210227005448/https://www.colonialvoyage.com/dutch-south-africa/ dead after his dismissal. The crew on the Voerman tasked with exploring the Natal coast.Golder F. A. October 1913 A History of Geographical Discovery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. By Edward Heawood, M.A., Librarian to the Royal Geographic Society. [Cambridge Geographical Series.] (Cambridge: The University Press. 1912. Pp. xii, 475.) https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/19.1.145 The American Historical Review 19 145–146 10.1086/ahr/19.1.145 1937-5239 subscription Schmiedel Ute Mucina Ladislav 2006-03-20 Vegetation of quartz fields in the Little Karoo, Tanqua Karoo and eastern Overberg (Western Cape Province, South Africa) https://doi.org/10.1127/0340-269x/2006/0036-0001 Phytocoenologia 36 1 1–44 10.1127/0340-269x/2006/0036-0001 0340-269X subscription Gill D. 1880-07-14 Observations of Comet I. 1880, made at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 40 9 623–627 10.1093/mnras/40.9.623 free 0035-8711Schoeman Gerhard Day-to-day South Africa: A violent way of life 2024-06-25 South Africa's High-Stress Security Environment 6–13 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003520481-2 2025-02-23 London Routledge 10.4324/9781003520481-2 978-1-003-52048-1 subscription Angela van Bengale, one of the first freed Cape slaves, is baptized as she fully joins Cape burgher society.The First Slaves at the Cape https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/first-slaves-cape 2025-02-23 www.sahistory.org.zaPeople of the Early Cape: What VOC Documents Reveal https://www.tracinghistorytrust.co.za/files/People%20of%20the%20early%20Cape.pdf Adam Tas is born, a future community leader of the Cape Colony.2004-07-17 Dagboek van Adam Tas, 1705-1706 http://www.vanriebeecksociety.co.za/docs/tas.htm 2025-02-23 vanriebeecksociety.co.za https://web.archive.org/web/20040717114006/http://www.vanriebeecksociety.co.za/docs/tas.htm 17 July 2004 web.archive.org Deaths 1662 - Doman and Autsumao, leaders of the Khoikhoi and interpreters dies 1668 - Zacharias Wagenaer, Commander of the Cape, dies References Bibliography See Years in South Africa for list of further sources