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The following lists events that happened during 1870 in South Africa.
Incumbents
- Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa:
- Sir Philip Wodehouse (until 19 May).
- Charles Craufurd Hay (acting from 20 May to 30 December).
- Sir Henry Barkly (from 31 December).
- Lieutenant-governor of the Colony of Natal: Robert William Keate.
- State President of the Orange Free State: Jan Brand.
- State President of the South African Republic: Marthinus Wessel Pretorius.
Events
- May
- 20 – Charles Craufurd Hay becomes acting Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa.
- July
- 30 – The Klipdrift Republic is proclaimed by a group of diamond miners with Stafford Parker as their president.
- December
- 31 – Sir Henry Barkly is appointed Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa.
- Date unknown
- The Alfred Basin in Table Bay Harbour, named after Prince Alfred, is completed.
Births
- 24 May – Jan Smuts, South African soldier and statesman. (d. 1950)
Deaths
- 11 March – Moshoeshoe I, King of Lesotho. (b. c. 1786)
Railways
Locomotives
- A second locomotive is at work on excavation and breakwater construction in Table Bay Harbour, a 0-4-0 saddle-tank engine believed to have been built by Hughes's Locomotive & Tramway Engine Works and delivered to the Cape at some time between 1863 and 1870.
References
- Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices, Orange Free State: Heads of State: 1854-1902 (Accessed on 14 April 2017)
- Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices, South African Republic (Transvaal): Heads of State: 1857-1877 (Accessed on 14 April 2017)
- Holland, D. F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. pp. 115–117. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.
- "History of Cape Town: The growth of the city and the port". Archived from the original on 14 December 2013. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
- South Africa’s Yesterdays, The Reader’s Digest Association South Africa (Pty.) Limited, 1981, (Editor Peter Joyce), p171, ISBN 0 620 05019 5
- The Cape Argus of 19 July 1870.
- Dating the opening of Hughes Works
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