1857 in South Africa

	1857 in South Africa
1854 1855 1856 « 1857 » 1858 1859 1860
Years in South Africa

Events

• Robert Moffat completes Old Testament Bible translation into Setswana
• Approximately 157 Irish women arrive on the ship "Lady Kennaway", settle in British Kaffraria.
• The first Legislative Council is selected in the Natal Colony
• The Union Steamship Company wins the first mail contract for regular mail service between Britain and South Africa
• The Cape Point Lighthouse at Cape Point is built
• Building of the Roman Rock Lighthouse at the entrance to Simon's Town starts and only completed in 1861
• 6 January - MW Pretorius becomes the first President of the South African Republic (Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek)

Births

• 2 October - Martinus Theunis Steyn, South African lawyer, politician and statesman, last president of the independent Orange Free State.

References

See Years in South Africa for list of References