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The following lists events that happened during the 1670s in South Africa.
Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein was a military man and a colonial administrator of the Dutch East India Company and naturalist. Between 1669 and 1676 he served as a governor of Dutch Malabar and employed twenty-five people on his book Hortus Malabaricus,describing 740 plants in the region. As Lord of Mydrecht,he also played a role in the governance of the Cape colonies. Many plants such as the vine Entada rheedii are named for him. The standard author abbreviation Rheede is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Hubert Hugo was a merchant in Dutch Suratte,a privateer on the Red Sea,and governor of Dutch Mauritius from 1672 to 1677. In 1674 he became one of the last people to document the presence of the dodo on Mauritius.
Adriaan Valckenier was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1737 to 1741. Mainly remembered for his involvement in the 1740 Batavia massacre,Valckenier later died in a prison in Batavia.
Zacharias Wagenaer was a German-born Dutch clerk,illustrator,merchant,member of the Court of Justice,opperhoofd of Deshima and the only German governor of the Dutch Cape Colony. In 35 years he traveled over four continents.
Ryk Tulbagh was Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony from 27 February 1751 to 11 August 1771 under the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
Isaac de l'Ostal de Saint-Martin was a French chevalier,who came in an unknown year from the Béarn to the Dutch Republic.
Cornelis van Quaelberg,also written as van Quaelbergen or van Quaalberg was the third commander of the Dutch Cape Colony from 1666 to 1668.
Jacob Borghorst,also Borchorst,was the fourth Commander of the Dutch Cape Colony from 1668 to 1670. He was in ill health for most of his period as Commander,and left most of the administration to his subordinates. Borghorst and his family returned to the Dutch Republic in 1670.
Baron Pieter van Reedevan Oudtshoorn was a senior official and Governor designate of the Dutch Cape Colony. He was appointed Governor of the Cape Colony in 1772 to succeed the deceased Governor Ryk Tulbagh but died at sea on his way to the Cape Colony to take up his post. The Western Cape town of Oudtshoorn is named after him. He is the progenitor of the van R(h)eede van Oudtshoorn family in South Africa.
IJsbrand Godske was the second Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony. After the death of Governor Pieter Hackius's on 30 November 1671,Godske was appointed to succeed him with the title of Governor and Councillor Extraordinary of India. For the time it took him to arrive at the Cape,first the Political Council and from 23 March 1672 to 2 October 1672,the secunde,Albert van Breugel,acted as governor.
Adriaan van Kervel was governor of the Dutch Cape Colony from 31 August 1737 to 19 September 1737. After only three weeks of serving as Governor he died and Daniël van den Henghel was appointed in an acting capacity.
Pieter Hackius was the fifth commander of the Cape of Good Hope before it became the Dutch Cape Colony in 1691. Hackius succeeded Jacob Borghorst as commander on 25 March 1670 and was appointed to a position similar to governor on 2 June 1670.
Hendrik Crudop was a VOC official who also acted as commander at the Cape of Good Hope after the death of Commander Johan Bax van Herenthals in 1678 until the arrival of Simon van der Stel.
Willem Helot,was secunde and Acting Governor of the Cape Colony.
Jan de la Fontaine was governor of the Cape from 1729 to 1737,after also acting as governor in 1724 to 1727.
Johan Cornelis d'Ableing,was secunde and acting governor at the Cape.
Daniël van den Henghel was a VOC official,fiscal and acting governor at the Cape.
Sebastiaan Cornelis Nederburgh was a Dutch statesman,first advocate and Commissioner General of the Dutch East India Company.
Simon Hendrik Frijkenius,was a sailor,naval officer and Commissioner-General of the VOC.
References
- ↑ The General Directory and Guide Book to the Cape of Good Hope and Its Dependencies. Saul Solomon. 1886.
- ↑ Theal, George McCall (2 December 2010). History and Ethnography of Africa South of the Zambesi, from the Settlement of the Portuguese at Sofala in September 1505 to the Conquest of the Cape Colony by the British in September 1795. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-02333-7.
- ↑ Montias, John Michael (2002). Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam. Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 978-90-5356-591-9.
- ↑ Beyers, C. J. (1981). Dictionary of South African biography: Vol IV. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council. p. 675. ISBN 0-624-00856-8. OCLC 20937.
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