1660s in South Africa

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The following lists events that happened during the 1660s in South Africa.

## Events

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### 1660

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* The Dutch East India Company imports the first horses into the Cape from Batavia
* Jan Danaert leads a horseback expedition from the Cape settlement to the east and reaches what he names the Olifants River
* Pieter Everaert leads an unsuccessful horseback expedition from the Cape settlement to the north in an attempt to locate the land of the Namaqua

### 1661

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* Pieter Cruythoff is sent out from the Cape settlement to investigate the suitability of the interior for agriculture

### 1662

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* 7 May - Jan van Riebeeck leaves the Cape on promotion to a position on the Council of Justice in Batavia
* 9 May - Zacharias Wagenaer succeeds Van Riebeeck as Commander of the Cape

### 1663

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* 4 March - the Prince Edward Islands were discovered by Barent Barentszoon Lam of the Dutch East India Company ship Maerseveen, and named them Maerseveen (Marion) and Dina (Prince Edward).[1]
* Settler outposts are established in the Hottentots Holland and Saldanha Bay areas

### 1664

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* 26 August - Isbrand Goske arrives at the Cape as Commissioner, and was instructed to select a site for the Castle of Good Hope

### 1665

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* 18 August - The first Dutch Reformed Church congregation is founded at the Cape and J. van Arkel is appointed the first minister

### 1666

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* Settlements in Saldanha Bay and Vishoek are established
* The first Calvinist church built in the Cape
* Construction begins on a stone fort at the Cape (later known as the Castle of Good Hope), with work done by 300 sailors, soldiers, Khoikhoi, women, and slaves;[2][3][4] this replaces the previous wooden fort built by Jan van Riebeeck and his men
* 24 October - Cornelis van Quaelberg assumes duty as the Commander of the Cape Colony, after Zacharias Wagenaer resigns from his post.[5]
* Angela van Bengale, an early Cape slave, is freed with her three children.[6][7]

### 1667

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* The first Malays arrive as slaves

### 1668

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* Hieronimus Cruse is ordered to explore the southeast coast to Mossel Bay, and to return overland.[8][9][10][11]
* 16 June - Cornelis van Quaelberg is succeeded by Jacob Borghorst as Commander,[12] after his dismissal.
* The crew on the Voerman tasked with exploring the Natal coast.[13][14][15][16]
* Angela van Bengale, one of the first freed Cape slaves, is baptized as she fully joins Cape burgher society.[17][18]
* Adam Tas is born, a future community leader of the Cape Colony.[19]

## Births

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## Deaths

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* 1662 - Doman and Autsumao, leaders of the Khoikhoi and interpreters dies
* 1668 - Zacharias Wagenaer, Commander of the Cape, dies

## References

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1. ^ Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia
2. ^ "General South African History Timeline: 1600s | South African History Online". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
3. ^ "Castle Of Good Hope - History Of The Castle". castleofgoodhope.co.za. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
4. ^ De Kock, W. J. (1976). Dictionary of South African biography. Human sciences research council. Cape Town: Tafelberg for the Human sciences research council. ISBN 978-0-624-00856-9.
5. ^ "Intro (African) to the Resolutions of Cape of Good Hope / VOC-bevelvoerders aan die Kaap die Goeie Hoop". 2005-03-24. Archived from the original on 24 March 2005. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
6. ^ "VAN BENGALE Angela". www.stamouers.com. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
7. ^ "Necrography: Death-Writing in the Colonial Museum". doi.org. doi:10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-19/conversation/p49. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
8. ^ "General South African History Timeline: 1600s". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
9. ^ Theal, George McCall (1909). History and Ethnography of Africa South of the Zambesi, from the Settlement of the Portuguese at Sofala in September 1505 to the Conquest of the Cape Colony by the British in September 1795: Volume 2: Foundation of the Cape Colony by the Dutch. Cambridge library collection. African Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-02333-7. `{{cite book}}`: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
10. ^ F.A.S. (June 1967). "Aloes of Tropical Africa. By Gilbert Westacott Reynolds". Taxon. 16 (3): 206. doi:10.2307/1216995. ISSN 0040-0262. JSTOR 1216995.
11. ^ "Mountain passes". Brill’s New Pauly. doi:10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e909490. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
12. ^ "The Dutch in South Africa, 1652-1795 and 1802-1806". Colonial Voyage. 2014-01-11. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
13. ^ Golder, F. A. (October 1913). "A History of Geographical Discovery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. By Edward Heawood, M.A., Librarian to the Royal Geographic Society. [Cambridge Geographical Series.] (Cambridge: The University Press. 1912. Pp. xii, 475.)". The American Historical Review. 19: 145–146\. doi:10.1086/ahr/19.1.145. ISSN 1937-5239.
14. ^ Schmiedel, Ute; Mucina, Ladislav (2006-03-20). "Vegetation of quartz fields in the Little Karoo, Tanqua Karoo and eastern Overberg (Western Cape Province, South Africa)". Phytocoenologia. 36 (1): 1–44\. doi:10.1127/0340-269x/2006/0036-0001. ISSN 0340-269X.
15. ^ Gill, D. (1880-07-14). "Observations of Comet I. 1880, made at the Royal Observatory,Cape of Good Hope". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 40 (9): 623–627\. doi:10.1093/mnras/40.9.623. ISSN 0035-8711.
16. ^ Schoeman, Gerhard (2024-06-25), "Day-to-day South Africa: A violent way of life", South Africa’s High-Stress Security Environment, London: Routledge, pp. 6–13, doi:10.4324/9781003520481-2, ISBN 978-1-003-52048-1, retrieved 2025-02-23
17. ^ "The First Slaves at the Cape". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
18. ^ "People of the Early Cape: What VOC Documents Reveal" (PDF).
19. ^ "Dagboek van Adam Tas, 1705-1706". vanriebeecksociety.co.za. 2004-07-17. Archived from the original on 17 July 2004. Retrieved 2025-02-23 - via web.archive.org.

## Bibliography

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See Years in South Africa for list of further sources