1850 in South Africa

← 1849 1848 1847 1850 in South Africa → 1851 1852 1853
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
See also:	List of years in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1850 in South Africa.

Events

• Wesleyan settlers arrive in Natal
• The "Childe Herold", a British ship en route from Bombay to London is wrecked off Dassen Island, Cape Colony
• 23 April — A mass meeting is held in Cape Town to petition Queen Victoria to grant the Cape Colony a government

Births

• 9 April — Julius Charles Wernher, financier and mine magnate
• 23 April — Andries Jacobus Bester, the Boer commandant of the Bethlehem commando, is born in Bloemfontein
• 4 September 1850 - Abraham Fischer, Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony. (d. 1913)

References

See Years in South Africa for list of References