{{Year in South Africa, 1670s The following lists events that happened during the

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Events

1670

* 2 June -

Pieter Hackius Pieter Hackius (died 30 November 1671) was the fifth commander of the Cape of Good Hope before it became the Dutch Cape Colony in 1691. Hackius succeeded Jacob Borghorst as commander on 25 March 1670 and was appointed to a position similar to go ...

is appointed Governor of the Cape Colony

1671

* Land is purchased from the Khoikhoi and the Cape Colony started * 1 December- After the death of Pieter Hackius, Governor of the Cape, a political council is appointed to run the colony with Coenraad van Breitenbach as chairman

1672

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cane is introduced * Production of

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is started * 23 March - Albert van Breugel is appointed acting Governor of the Cape * 2 October - IJsbrand Godske is appointed Governor of the Cape

1673

* 1673 - When negotiations for trade of livestock fails, the Dutch East India Company sends in

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to attack the Cochoqua. This is the beginning of Second Dutch-Khoikhoi War in which the Dutch take approximately 1800 head of livestock

1676

* 2 January - Johan Bax van Herenthals is appointed Governor of the Cape * 18 February - Two young lions are dispatched from Cape Town to

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as a gift to the king of Kandy

1678

* The settlement of Hottentots-Holland is established * 29 June

Hendrik Crudop Hendrik Crudop ( 1646 – after 1720) was a VOC official who also acted as commander at the Cape of Good Hope after the death of Commander Johan Bax van Herenthals in 1678 until the arrival of Simon van der Stel. Career Crudop arrived at the Ca ...

is appointed acting Governor of the Cape

1679

* 26 April The building of the Castle of Good Hope is completed * 14 October Simon van der Stel is appointed Commander of the Cape * 6 November - Stellenbosch is founded

Deaths

* 30 November 1671 - Pieter Hackius dies * 18 January 1677 -

Jan van Riebeeck Johan Anthoniszoon "Jan" van Riebeeck (21 April 1619 – 18 January 1677) was a Dutch navigator and colonial administrator of the Dutch East India Company. Life Early life Jan van Riebeeck was born in Culemborg, as the son of a surgeon. He ...

dies at Batavia on Java * 29 June 1678 - Johan Bax van Herenthals dies

References

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