1814 in South Africa
The following lists events that happened during 1814 in South Africa.
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Events
- 13 August - The French are defeated by the British and the Netherlands is reverted to a monarchy. In the complex peace treaty, the Cape Colony is permanently taken from the Dutch by the United Kingdom.
- A mail packet service is started between Great Britain and the Cape
Births
- 27 May - William Guybon Atherstone, medical practitioner, naturalist and geologist, (d. 1898)
- 5 June - John Molteno, future first Prime Minister of the Cape
References
See Years in South Africa for list of References
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