Theme
Religion
Events involving religious movements, prophecy, belief, ritual, or missionary contexts.
Initial theme stub generated from the nineteenth-century event dataset.
Events
1560Gonçalo da Silveira begins a Jesuit mission at the Mutapa court1561Gonçalo da Silveira is killed at the Mutapa court1658First school for enslaved children established1662Krotoa baptised into the Dutch Reformed Church1685Slave Lodge school established on a more permanent basis1688–1689French Huguenot refugees arrive at the Cape9 July 1737Georg Schmidt arrives at the Cape1738Mission station at Baviaanskloof is establishedc. 1742Schmidt baptises Khoekhoe converts5 March 1744Georg Schmidt departs the CapeAugust 1788–29 April 1790Jan Paerl leads a Khoekhoe resistance movement1792Moravians return to the former Baviaanskloof mission1793First Cape Muslim madrasah associated with Tuan Guru1794 or 1795Auwal Masjid is established in Cape Town22 April 1819Makhanda (Nxele) leads the attack on Grahamstown1856–1857Xhosa Cattle-Killing