Events

• The Dutch Reformed Church
  Dutch Reformed Church
  The Dutch Reformed Church was a Reformed Christian denomination in the Netherlands. It existed from the 1570s to 2004, the year it merged with the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands to form the Protestant Church in the...
  
   establish a congregation in Somerset East
  Somerset East, Eastern Cape
  Somerset East is a town in the Blue Crane Route in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, which was founded by Lord Charles Somerset in 1825.The Blue Crane Route follows the national road R63 from Pearston, via Somerset East, to Cookhouse...
  
  
• The first steamship arrives in Table Bay
  Table Bay
  Table Bay is a natural bay on the Atlantic Ocean overlooked by Cape Town and is at the northern end of the Cape Peninsula, which stretches south to the Cape of Good Hope. It was named because it is dominated by the flat-topped Table Mountain.Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to explore this...
  
  
• The depreciated rix dollar is converted into the British sterling
  Pound sterling
  The pound sterling , commonly called the pound, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, its Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, British Antarctic Territory and Tristan da Cunha. It is subdivided into 100 pence...
  
  
• The Anglican St. Mary's Collegiate Church is started in Port Elizabeth

Births

• 17 September - Donald Currie
  Donald Currie
  Sir Donald Currie GCMG was a British shipowner.Currie was born in Greenock, Scotland. However, he spent his school days in Belfast at the Belfast Academy and later at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and at a very early age he was employed in the office of a shipowner in that port...
  
  , shipping magnate and donor of the Currie Cup
  Currie Cup
  The Currie Cup tournament is South Africa's premier domestic rugby union competition, played each winter and spring , featuring teams representing either entire provinces or substantial regions within provinces...
  
  s for rugby union
  Rugby union
  Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
  
   and cricket
  Cricket
  Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
  
  , is born in Greenock
  Greenock
  Greenock is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in United Kingdom, and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland...
  
  , Scotland
• 10 October - Stephanus Johannes Paul Kruger
  Paul Kruger
  Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger , better known as Paul Kruger and affectionately known as Uncle Paul was State President of the South African Republic...
  
   is born in Cradock, Cape Colony