1710s in South Africa
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The following lists events that happened during the 1710s in South Africa.
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Events
1711
- 28 December - Willem Helot is appointed acting Governor of the Cape Colony
1713
- Governor of the Cape Colony - Louis van Assenberg[1]
- 16 March - A smallpox epidemic broke out at the Cape Colony. A smallpox outbreak kills 25% of the White Cape population and devastates the Cape Khoikhoi. The Khoikhoi, due to a lack of immunity, have their population nearly wiped.[2][3][4] 90% of the Khoikhoi population ends up being killed in the smallpox epidemic.[5][6][7]
- Cape slaves flee but are captured and punished. Thomas van Bengalen is hanged, and the leader Tromp van Madagascar is sentenced to impalement but commits suicide.[8] Other Cape captives have their Achilles tendons severed or feet broken on the wheel.
- A Cape labour shortage follows, land becomes "ownerless" and is taken by colonial cattle farmers.[9][10][11]
1714
- 28 March - Maurits Pasques de Chavonnes is appointed Governor of the Cape
1715
- The Trek Boers raid Khoikhoi cattle near Saldanha Bay.[12][13]
- A list of all the free men at the Dutch Cape Colony is compiled for 1715. It is divided into three districts; the Cape of Good Hope, Stellenbosch and the Drakenstein.[14]
- A new lease renewal condition is introduced. Leases had to be renewed one month after expiration, with penalties for each emission.[15]
- Khoisan in Land van Waveren attack the European farmers, stealing 200 cattle and several thousand sheep.[16]
- The Constantia estate is sold after the Dutch government orders the confiscation of the Van der Stel lands.[17]
- Abraham de Villiers acquires the Boschendal farm estate.[18]
- The Lady of Good Hope is introduced to the coat of arms of the Cape Colony.[19]
- The Isle de France in the Indian Ocean becomes a French colony.[20]
1717
- The system of freehold title to land in the Cape ends
Deaths
- 27 December 1711 - Louis van Assenburgh, Governor of the Cape, dies
- 24 June 1712 - Simon van der Stel, Governor of the Cape, died at his estate in Constantia, Cape Colony