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1909 In South Africa
The following lists events that happened during 1909 in South Africa. Incumbents * Cape Colony#Governors of the Cape of Good Hope (1797–1910), Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa:Walter Hely-Hutchinson. * Colony of Natal#Lieutenant-governors, Governor of the Colony of Natal: Matthew Nathan. * Cape Colony#Prime Ministers of the Cape of Good Hope (1872–1910), Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: Leander Starr Jameson. * Colony of Natal, Prime Minister of the Colony of Natal: Frederick Robert Moor. * Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony: Hamilton John Goold-Adams. * Prime Minister of the Transvaal Colony: Louis Botha. Events ;February * 25 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi is arrested at Volksrust for failure to produce a registration certificate and is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment. ;June * 15 – Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's Cricket Ground and form the Inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Colony
The Cape Colony ( nl, Kaapkolonie), also known as the Cape of Good Hope, was a British Empire, British colony in present-day South Africa named after the Cape of Good Hope, which existed from 1795 to 1802, and again from 1806 to 1910, when it united with three other colonies to form the Union of South Africa. The British colony was preceded by an earlier corporate colony that became an Dutch Cape Colony, original Dutch colony of the same name, which was established in 1652 by the Dutch East India Company, Dutch East India Company (VOC). The Cape was under VOC rule from 1652 to 1795 and under rule of the Napoleonic Batavian Republic, Batavia Republic from 1803 to 1806. The VOC lost the colony to Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain following the 1795 Invasion of the Cape Colony, Battle of Muizenberg, but it was acceded to the Batavian Republic, Batavia Republic following the 1802 Treaty of Amiens. It was re-occupied by the British following the Battle of Blaauwberg in 1806 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
