1677 in South Africa
The following lists events that happened during 1677 in South Africa.
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Incumbents
[edit]- Governor of the Cape Colony: Johan Bax van Herentals
Events
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- Governor Bax sends captain Cornelis Thomas Wobma along the west coast to determine the boundary between the Khoi-Khoi and the Kaffirs.[1]
- The Third Khoikhoi-Dutch War ends. Governor Bax secures the Chocoqua’s submission, and demands an annual tribute of thirty cattle.[2]
- Jan van Riebeeck dies aged 57 in Batavia.[3]
- The first person in the Uys family to arrive at the Cape is Daentie Rycken, the mother of the family's progenitor. She is accompanied by Jan Hendriksz de Lange, her second spouse.[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ "General South African History Timeline: 1600s | South African History Online". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 2025-02-25.
- ^ "Dutch colonization wreaked havoc from Asia to Africa". www.aa.com.tr. Retrieved 2025-02-25.
- ^ "Van Riebeeck, Jan", African American Studies Center, Oxford University Press, 2005-04-07, doi:10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.43756, ISBN 978-0-19-530173-1, retrieved 2025-02-25
- ^ Rootenberg 2016, pp. 32-35.
- ^ Rootenberg 1997, pp. 145–149.
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