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| 1 | 1814 | - 1814—1814:
SA - The Cape Colony is formally ceded to Britain. Mail packet service started between Britain and the Cape.
- 1 Jan 1814—1 Jan 1814:
Invasion of France by Allies
- 6 Apr 1814—6 Apr 1814:
Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba
- 13 Aug 1814—13 Aug 1814:
Convention of London signed, a treaty between the UK and the Dutch
- 24 Aug 1814—24 Aug 1814:
The British burn the White House
- 29 Nov 1814—29 Nov 1814:
'The Times' first printed by a 'mechanical apparatus' (at 1100 sheets per hour)
- 24 Dec 1814—24 Dec 1814:
Treaty of Ghent signed ending the 1812 war between Britain and the US
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| 2 | 1815 | - 1815—1815:
SA - Slagter's Nek Rebellion.
- 1815—1815:
Trial by Jury established in Scotland
- 1815—1815:
Davy develops the safety lamp for miners
- 18 Jun 1815—18 Jun 1815:
The Battle of Waterloo: Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena
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| 3 | 1816 | - 1816—1816:
SA - Missionaries Read and Hamilton; with Hendriks; Kakkerlak and Sedras establish Kuruman Mission (LMS)
- 1816—1816:
SA - Wesleyan Mission to Nama at Leliefontein
- 1816—1816:
Income tax abolished
- 1816—1816:
For the first time British silver coins were produced with an intrinsic value substantially
below their face value ? the first official 'token' coinage
- 1816—1816:
Climate: the 'year without a summer' ? followed a volcanic explosion of the mountain 'Tambora in Indonesia the previous year the biggest volcanic explosion in 10000 years
- 1816—1816:
Large scale emigration to North America
- 1816—1816:
Trans-Atlantic packet service begins
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| 4 | 1817 | - 1817—1817:
SA - Dutch Reformed Church congregation founded in Uitenhage.
- 1817—1817:
SA - Approximately 200 Scottish artisan immigrants brought to Cape by Benjamin Moodie.
- 1817—1817:
March of the Manchester Blanketeers; Habeas Corpus suspended
- 1817—1817:
Constable painted 'Flatford Mill'
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| 5 | 1818 | - 1818—1818:
SA - Dutch Reformed Church congregation founded in Cradock. Settlement of land beyond Orange River. Beaufort West founded.
- 1818—1819:
SA - Fifth Frontier War between Xhosa and whites. Grahamstown attacked.
- 1818—1818:
Manchester cotton spinners' strike
- 20 Oct 1818—20 Oct 1818:
'Convention of 1818' signed between the United States and the United Kingdom
which, among other things, settled the US-Canada border on the 49th parallel for most of its
length
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