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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1850 | - 1850—1859:
SA - First Afrikaans book written by an imam (Muslim prayer leader) of slave descent
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| 2 | 1856 | - 1856—1862:
SA - Approximately 700 juveniles arrive from Holland.
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| 3 | 1857 | - 1857—1862:
SA - Assisted immigration schemes bring about 12 000 settlers.
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| 4 | 1859 | - 1859—1859:
SA - Dopper Church leaves the Dutch Reformed Church. First railway in the Cape Colony commenced.
- 1859—1859:
Peaceful picketing legalised in Britain
- 25 Apr 1859—25 Apr 1859:
Work started on building the Suez canal (opened 17 Nov 1869)
- 4 May 1859—4 May 1859:
Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge opened at Saltash giving rail link between Devon
and Cornwall
- 24 Nov 1859—24 Nov 1859:
Charles Darwin publishes 'The Origin of Species'
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| 5 | 1860 | - 1860—1860:
SA - Boer republics north of Vaal unite as South African Republic
- 1860—1860:
SA - Indians arrive in Natal to work on sugar cane farms as indentured labourers. Between 1860-1911 about 152 000 Indians arrive and about 50% stay.
- 1860—1860:
SA - First telegraph service in South Africa, between Cape Town and Simonstown.
- 1860—1860:
SA - Start of penny post in Cape Town. Work began on Table Bay Docks. The Catholic St. Augustine's Church established in Port Elizabeth.Circa 1860, the first Baptist Church started in Port Elizabeth.
- 26 Jun 1860—1860:
SA - First railway in South Africa, between Market Square and Point, Durban, opens.
- 29 Aug 1860—29 Aug 1860:
First tram service in Europe starts in Birkenhead
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| 6 | 1861 | - 1861—1862:
SA - Griqua trek under Adam Kok III from Philippolis to Nomansland
- 1861—1861:
SA - American Civil War
- 25 May 1861—25 May 1861:
American Civil War begins
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| 7 | 1862 | - 1862—1862:
Lincoln issues first legal US paper money (Greenbacks)
- 20 Apr 1862—20 Apr 1862:
First pasteurisation test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard
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| 8 | 1863 | - 1863—1863:
SA - The Hill Presbyterian Church started in Port Elizabeth.
- 1863—1863:
SA - North End Cemetery started in Port Elizabeth.
- 1863—1863:
Football Association founded (UK)
- 1863—1863:
Opening of state institution for criminally insane at Broadmoor, England
- 10 Jan 1863—10 Jan 1863:
First section of the London Underground Railway opens
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| 9 | 1864 | - 1864—1864:
SA - St. George's Cemetery established in Port Elizabeth.
- 1864—1864:
A man-powered submarine, 'Hunley' sank a Federal steam ship USS Housatonic at the entrance to Charleston harbour in 1864 - the first recorded successful attack by a submarine on a surface ship
- 11 Mar 1864—11 Mar 1864:
The Great Sheffield Flood - over 250 died when a new dam broke while it was being filled for the first time
- 20 Aug 1864—20 Aug 1864:
Red Cross established - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention
- 8 Dec 1864—8 Dec 1864:
Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon officially opened
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| 10 | 1865 | - 1865—1866:
SA - Albania Settlement Scheme
- 1865—1865:
SA - Ostriches first domesticated.
- 1865—1866:
SA - Economic depression throughout South Africa. War between Orange Free State and Basutos.
- 1865—1865:
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) becomes first woman doctor in England [she later became the first woman mayor in England, in Aldeburgh 1908]
- 1865—1865:
First concrete roads built in Britain
- 14 Apr 1865—14 Apr 1865:
End of American Civil War - slavery abolished in USA
- 14 Apr 1865—14 Apr 1865:
Abraham Lincoln assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
- 5 Jul 1865—5 Jul 1865:
William Booth (1829-1912) founds Salvation Army, in London
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| 11 | 1866 | - 1866—1866:
SA - India officially stops sending Indian labourers to Natal.
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| 12 | 1867 | - Apr 1867—1867:
SA - 21.25 carat diamond found near Hopetown.
- 1 Jul 1867—1 Jul 1867:
The British North America Act takes effect, creating the Canadian Confederation
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| 13 | 1868 | - 1868—1869:
SA - Korana War along Orange River
- 1868—1868:
Last convicts landed in Australia (Western Australia)
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| 14 | 1869 | - 1869—1869:
SA - Railway from Port Nolloth to O'Kiep
- 1869—1869:
SA - Star of South Africa diamond discovered. Gold and diamond rush starts.
- 1869—1869:
Ball bearings, celluloid, margarine, and washing machines, all invented
- 23 Nov 1869—23 Nov 1869:
Cutty Sark launched in Dumbarton
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| 15 | 1870 | - 1870—1870:
SA - Galeshewe of Tlhaping born
- 1870—1884:
SA - |Xam prisoners at Cape Town interviewed by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd
- 1870—1871:
SA - The Anglican St. Peter's Church started in Port Elizabeth.
- 1870—1870:
SA - Opening of Cape Town Docks.
- 1870—1870:
GPO takes over the privately-owned Telegraph Companies (nationalised)
- 1870—1870:
Dr Thomas Barnardo opens his first home for destitute children
- 1870—1870:
Water closets come into wide use
- 1870—1870:
Diamonds discovered in Kimberley, South Africa
- 1 Oct 1870—1 Oct 1870:
First British postcard - halfpenny post
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| 16 | 1871 | - 1871—1871:
SA - Diamonds found at New Rush; renamed Kimberley; 1873. Griqua claim to Diamond Fields recognised and Waterboer seeks British protection. Diamond mining stimulates migrant labour on unprecedented scale. Two thirds of black workforce comes from Limpopo valley
- 1871—1871:
SA - Gold discovered in Eastern Transvaal. Britain annexes the diamond fields of Kimberley and Griqua West. First mail from Cape Town to the diamond fields.
- 27 Mar 1871—27 Mar 1871:
First Rugby Football international, England v Scotland, played in Edinburgh
- 29 Mar 1871—29 Mar 1871:
Opening of Royal Albert Hall, London
- 29 Jun 1871—29 Jun 1871:
Trades Unions legalised in Britain, but picketing made illegal
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