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Date |
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1 | 1870 | - 1870—1884:
SA - |Xam prisoners at Cape Town interviewed by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd
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2 | 1873 | - 1873—1875:
SA - Approximately 3300 men, women and children arrive as agricultural settlers or labourers for public works.
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3 | 1874 | - 1874—1874:
SA - College founded at Stellenbosch (later Victoria College, today University of Stellenbosch). Railway line opened from Port Elizabeth to Uitenhage.
- 1874—1874:
Factory Act introduces 56-hour week
- 5 Apr 1874—5 Apr 1874:
Birkenhead Park opened, said to be the first civic public park in the world - features of it later copied in Central Park, New York
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4 | 1875 | - 1875—1875:
SA - Black Flag Rebellion by white diggers at Kimberley
- 1875—1875:
SA - Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners (Association for True Afrikaners) formed
- 1875—1875:
London's main sewage system completed
- 1 Jan 1875—1 Jan 1875:
Midland Railway abolishes Second Class passenger facilities, leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British railway companies followed during the rest of the year. (Third Class was renamed Second Class in 1956)
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5 | 1876 | - 1876—1876:
SA - Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje born
- 14 Feb 1876—14 Feb 1876:
Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray each file a patent for the telephone - Bell awarded the rights
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6 | 1877 | - 1877—1877:
SA - Native Locations for Tswana established in Griqualand West
- 1877—1877:
SA - Britain annexes the Transvaal Republic. Ninth Frontier War.
- 1877—1877:
Edison invents microphone and phonograph
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7 | 1878 | - 1878—1879:
SA - Griqualand West Rebellion and Korana War coincide with similar conflicts elsewhere in South Africa.
- 1878—1879:
SA - Griqualand West and Tswana Rebellion
- 1878—1878:
SA - Koegas atrocities
- 1878—1878:
SA - Walvis Bay proclaimed British territory. Telegraph service between Natal and Transvaal.
- 1878—1878:
Edison & Swan invent electric lamp
- 1878—1878:
Red Flag Act in Britain limits mechanical road vehicles to 4mph
- 1878—1878:
CID established at New Scotland Yard
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8 | 1879 | - 1 Sep 1879—1879:
SA - Zulu War starts, battles at Isandhlwana, Rorke's Drift and Ulundi.
- 18 Sep 1879—18 Sep 1879:
Blackpool illuminations switched on for first time
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9 | 1880 | - 1880—1880:
SA - Griqualand West annexed to Cape Colony
- 1880—1880:
SA - First Legislative Council in Transvaal. Formation of De Beers Company. Formation of the Afrikander Bond.
- 1880—1881:
SA - First Anglo-Boer War, Boers defeat Britain.
- 1880—1880:
Education Act: schooling compulsory for 5-10 year olds
- 1880—1880:
Mosquito found to be the carrier of malaria
- 2 Aug 1880—2 Aug 1880:
Greenwich Mean Time adopted throughout UK
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10 | 1881 | - 1881—1881:
SA - Jantje Mothibi of Tlhaping dies
- 1881—1882:
SA - Tswana-Kora wars with white mercenary involvement
- 1881—1881:
SA - Battle of Laing's Nek, 28 January. Battle of Majuba, 27 February. Britain recognises South African Republic (ZAR).
- 1881—1881:
Postal Orders introduced
- 1881—1881:
Flogging abolished in Army and Royal Navy
- Sep 1881—Sep 1881:
Godalming in Surrey became the first town in England to have a public electricity
supply installed (but in 1884 it reverted to gas lighting until 1904)
- 26 Oct 1881—26 Oct 1881:
Gunfight at OK Corral
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11 | 1882 | - 1882—1882:
SA - Abraham September (freed slave) begins Orange River irrigation
- 1882—1882:
SA - Approximately 4645 settlers arrive. South End Cemetery in Port Elizabeth started. Use of Dutch recognised in Cape Parliament.
- 1882—1882:
Fourth Eddystone Lighthouse completed
- 29 Aug 1882—1882:
SA - 229 Norwegians arrive aboard the "Lapland" and settle at the mouth of the Umzimkulu river (Port Shepstone), Natal.
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