community
Free Burghers
Parent: Dutch / VOC Cape
Initial entity stub generated from temp/sa-history-17th-century-events.csv.
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Events
1656First recorded manumission of an enslaved person at the CapeFebruary 1657First free burgher farms established along the Liesbeeck River1 May 1659First burgher militia establishedMay 1659–April 1660First Khoikhoi–Dutch War1680Stellenbosch settlement foundedLate seventeenth centuryWheat and wine farming expand in the south-western Cape1684VOC imposes tighter price controls on indigenous trade1687Upper Berg River Valley opened to free-burgher settlement1688–1689French Huguenot refugees arrive at the Cape1690Enslaved people in Stellenbosch attempt an uprisingc. 1690sTrekboer pastoral expansion emerges beyond the settled districtsLate seventeenth centuryA Cape Dutch creole speech community begins to develop20 July–August 1693VOC backs rival captain Koopman in an attack on Dorha1705–1707Burgher opposition to Willem Adriaan van der Stel intensifies28 February 1706Adam Tas is arrested1707Willem Adriaan van der Stel is recalled22 February 1707News arrives that the Lords Seventeen have ruled against Van der Stel1713Smallpox epidemic devastates Cape society3 July 1714VOC establishes the loan-place system1743Swellendam is founded1755Second major smallpox epidemic1767Third major smallpox epidemicLate 1770s–early 1780sCape burgher political turmoil and “Cape Patriot” mobilisation1786Graaff-Reinet is foundedMay 1793H. C. D. Maynier becomes landdrost of Graaff-Reinet1795Graaff-Reinet burghers expel Maynier and revolt1795Swellendam declares itself independent of VOC authority