1857 in South Africa

	1857 in South Africa
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List of years in South Africa

Events

• Robert Moffat completes Old Testament Bible translation into Setswana
• About 157 Irish women arrive on the ship Lady Kennaway and settle in British Kaffraria.
• The first Legislative Council is selected in the Natal Colony
• The Union Steam Ship Company wins the first mail contract for regular mail service between Great Britain and South Africa
• The Cape Point Lighthouse at Cape Point is built
• Building of the Roman Rock Lighthouse at the entrance to Simon's Town starts and only completed in 1861
• 6 January — Marthinus Wessel Pretorius becomes the first President of the South African Republic (Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek)

Births

• 2 October — Martinus Theunis Steyn, South African lawyer, politician and statesman, last president of the independent Orange Free State.

Deaths

• 15 December - Anna Maria Truter (80), a Cape Colony botanical artist and wife of Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, dies in England

References

See Years in South Africa for list of References