1770s in South Africa
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See also: 1760s in South Africa, other events of 1770s, 1780s in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
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Events
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1771
- The Dutch East India Company institutes a policy in the Cape Colony which dictated that schools should teach exclusively in Dutch and strict laws of assembly
- Clashes between Trekboers and Xhosa begin as trekkers cross the Gamtoos River in the east
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1774
- A commando mounted against the San tribes kill 503 and capture 241 San
- 12 August Joachim Ammema, Baron van Plettenberg, is appointed Governor of the Cape
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1775
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1776
- England's revolting colonies declare themselves the independent United States of America
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1778
- The Cape Colony boundary is extended to Buffels, Zak and Fish Rivers
- Hendrik Jacob Wikar and Robert Jacob Gordon meet Khoikhoi, Geisiqua and Tswana tribes along lower and middle Gariep which Gordon names Orange River in honour of the Netherlands Stadtholder
- 6 February - France formally recognises the United States as a nation by signing a treaty of Friendship and Trade. An undeclared war with Britain soon erupted
- 27 July - French and British navies clash just off the coast of France
- 30 December - Britain captures the port of St. Lucia in the Caribbean Sea
- British forces capture Pondicherry in the Bay of Bengal from the French, later recapured
- The Dutch port of St Eustatius in the West Indies became the world's busiest port handling the majority of supplies and arms bound for the United States
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1779
- Xhosas moving south clash with the settlers at the Fish River starting the first of nine Cape Frontier Wars
- 12 April - Spain joins with France and America in the war against Britain
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Births
- 1 May 1772 - Sir Gilbraith Lowry Cole, Governor of the Cape Colony, is born
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