The following lists events that happened during the 1670s in South Africa.
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Events edit
1670 edit
- 2 June - Pieter Hackius is appointed Governor of the Cape Colony
1671 edit
- Land is purchased from the Khoikhoi and the Cape Colony started
- 1 December- After the death of Pieter Hackius, Governor of the Cape, a political council is appointed to run the colony with Coenraad van Breitenbach as chairman
1672 edit
- Sugar cane is introduced
- Production of Brandy is started
- 23 March - Albert van Breugel is appointed acting Governor of the Cape
- 2 October - IJsbrand Godske is appointed Governor of the Cape
1673 edit
- 1673 - When negotiations for trade of livestock fails, the Dutch East India Company sends in Hieronimus Cruse to attack the Cochoqua. This is the beginning of Second Dutch-Khoikhoi War in which the Dutch take approximately 1800 head of livestock
1676 edit
- 2 January - Johan Bax van Herenthals is appointed Governor of the Cape
- 18 February - Two young lions are dispatched from Cape Town to Ceylon as a gift to the king of Kandy
1678 edit
- The settlement of Hottentots-Holland is established
- 29 June Hendrik Crudop is appointed acting Governor of the Cape
1679 edit
- 26 April The building of the Castle of Good Hope is completed
- 14 October Simon van der Stel is appointed Commander of the Cape
- 6 November - Stellenbosch is founded
Deaths edit
- 30 November 1671 - Pieter Hackius dies
- 18 January 1677 - Jan van Riebeeck dies at Batavia on Java
- 29 June 1678 - Johan Bax van Herenthals dies
References edit
See Years in South Africa for list of References