The following lists events that happened during

1882 Events January–March * January 2 ** The Standard Oil Trust is secretly created in the United States to control multiple corporations set up by John D. Rockefeller and his associates. ** Irish-born author Oscar Wilde arrives in ...

in South Africa.

Incumbents

* Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: Hercules Robinson. * Governor of the Colony of Natal:

Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer, (11 December 1836 – 30 September 1914), the nephew of Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer and brother to Edward Earle Gascoyne Bulwer, was a British colonial administrator and diplomat. Bulwer was educated at Charterh ...

. *

State President of the Orange Free State This is a list of State Presidents of the Orange Free State. List Last election See also *State President of the South African Republic External links Archontology.org: Orange Free State: Heads of State: 1854–1902 {{DEFAULTSORT:Stat ...

Jan Brand Sir Johannes Henricus Brand, (popularly known as Sir Jan Brand and sometimes as Sir John Henry Brand or Jan Henrick Brand; 6 December 1823 – 14 July 1888) was a South African lawyer and politician who served as the fourth state presiden ...

. *

State President of the South African Republic This is a list of State Presidents of the South African Republic (Before 1866 nl, President van de Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek and after 1866 nl, Staatspresident der Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek). The country was referred as the ''Transvaal R ...

: Triumviate of Paul Kruger, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius and Piet Joubert. * Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: Thomas Charles Scanlen.

Events

;May * 9 – Paul Kruger becomes President of the South African Republic. * 28 – Two ships, the Agnes (94 tonne) and the Christina (196 tonne), run ashore at Plettenberg Bay. ;July * 26 – The

Stellaland The Republic of Stellaland ( nl, Republiek Stellaland) was, from 1882 to 1883, a Boer republic located in an area of British Bechuanaland (now in South Africa's North West Province), west of the Transvaal. After unification with the neighbour ...

Republic is declared, founding Vryburg as capital. ;September * 2 –

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becomes the first town in the southern hemisphere to install electric street lighting. * 7 – W.H. Finlay of Cape Town's Royal Observatory is first to record observations of the Great Comet of 1882. * 29 – 229 Norwegians settle at the mouth of the

Umzimkulu River The Mzimkulu River is a river in South Africa. In the past, the Mzimkulu formed part of the border between Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces. Presently this river is part of the Mvoti to Umzimkulu Water Management Area. In late February ...

, founding

Port Shepstone Port Shepstone is a large town situated on the mouth of the Mzimkhulu River, the largest river on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast of South Africa. It is located halfway between Hibberdene and Margate and is positioned 120 km south of Durban. ...

. ;November * 21 – The Goshen Republic is established with its capital

Rooigrond Rooigrond is a town in Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality in the North West province of South Africa. Hamlet 16 km south-east of Mafikeng and 25 km south-west of Ottoshoop Ottoshoop is one of the small towns in the Mahikeng Loc ...

near

Mafeking Mafikeng, officially known as Mahikeng and previously Mafeking (, ), is the capital city of the North West province of South Africa. Close to South Africa's border with Botswana, Mafikeng is northeast of Cape Town and west of Johannesburg. In ...

. ;Unknown date * Zulu king Cetshwayo returns to South Africa. * In the Cape Colony, the

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is once again admitted as an official language alongside English.

Births

* 24 February – Jan Gysbert Hugo Bosman aka Bosman de Ravelli, concert pianist and

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, is born in Piketberg.

Deaths

Railways

Railway lines opened

* 15 December – Cape Western – Wynberg to Muizenberg, .''Report for year ending 31 December 1909'', Cape Government Railways, Section VIII - "Dates of Opening and the Length of the different Sections in the Cape Colony, from the Year 1873 to 31st December, 1909."

Locomotives

* Three new

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locomotive types enter service on the Cape Government Railways (CGR): ** Six 2nd Class 4-4-0 ''Wynberg Tank'' locomotives on suburban passenger trains out of Cape Town. ** The first of 33 tank-and-tender locomotives with Stephenson valve gear on the mainlines of all three systems.''C.G.R. Numbering Revised'', Article by Dave Littley, SA Rail May–June 1993, pp. 94–95. ** The first of 35 tank-and-tender locomotives with Joy valve gear on the mainlines of all three systems. * Two new locomotive types enter service on the private Kowie Railway which is under construction from Port Alfred to Grahamstown: ** Two 0-6-0 tank locomotives in goods service. ** Two 4-4-0 tank locomotives in passenger service.

References

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