1801 in South Africa
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- Farmers of Graaff ReinetGraaff ReinetGraaff-Reinet is a town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It is the fourth oldest town in South Africa, after Cape Town, Stellenbosch and Swellendam.-History:...
revolt for the second time against the British rule - The 3rd Cape Frontier War ends
- An official expedition of Truter, Somerville, Barrow and Daniell with missionaries Jan Matthys Kok and William Edwards reaches Dithakong
- William Anderson establishes a mission at Aakaap and Klaarwater (later called GriquatownGriquatownGriekwastad is a country town in South Africa. It is sometimes still called Griquatown, a name which is now considered historical. The town is situated in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa about from the city of Kimberley...
) - A KhoisanKhoisanKhoisan is a unifying name for two ethnic groups of Southern Africa, who share physical and putative linguistic characteristics distinct from the Bantu majority of the region. Culturally, the Khoisan are divided into the foraging San and the pastoral Khoi...
spelling book printed by the London Missionary SocietyLondon Missionary SocietyThe London Missionary Society was a non-denominational missionary society formed in England in 1795 by evangelical Anglicans and Nonconformists, largely Congregationalist in outlook, with missions in the islands of the South Pacific and Africa... - 20 April - Francis DundasFrancis DundasGeneral Francis Dundas General Francis Dundas General Francis Dundas (c.1759, Sanson, Berwickshire – 15 January 1824, Dumbarton, Scotland was a British general and acting governor of the Cape Colony between 1798 and 1803....
is appointed Governor of the Cape