Events

• The Black Flag Rebellion is staged by white diamond
  Diamond
  In mineralogy, diamond is an allotrope of carbon, where the carbon atoms are arranged in a variation of the face-centered cubic crystal structure called a diamond lattice. Diamond is less stable than graphite, but the conversion rate from diamond to graphite is negligible at ambient conditions...
  
   diggers at Kimberley
• 14 August - The Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners (Association for True Afrikaners) is formed at the home of Gideon Malherbe in Paarl
  Paarl
  Paarl is a town with 191,013 inhabitants in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Its the third oldest European settlement in the Republic of South Africa and the largest town in the Cape Winelands. Due to the growth of the Mbekweni township, it is now a de facto urban unit with Wellington...