1835 in South Africa
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Events
- The Voortrekkers start leaving the Cape Colony in what is called the Great Trek into the interior to escape British domination
- Port Natal is renamed Durban in honor of the Cape Colony Governor, Sir Benjamin d'Urban
- AmaXhosa chiefdoms invade the Cape Colony to reclaim land taken in the previous Sixth War of Dispossession.[1]
- Governor Sir Benjamin D'Urban orders Cape troops and African allies to devastate AmaXhosa villages, crops, and food supplies.
- D'Urban annexes land between the Kei and Keiskamma rivers, naming it the province of Adelaide.
- Missionaries publish the first IsiXhosa grammar in Grahamstown.
- Cape Colony's Ordinance 1 forbids slave owners from administering punishment and a judicial/magisterial system is introduced for legal enforcement.
- Chief Hintsa of the AmaXhosa is captured under a false truce by Governor D'Urban's troops and interrogated. He was murdered while attempting to escape, with his ears taken as trophies.
