British settlers at Port Natal on South Africa’s Indian Ocean coast give the name D’Urban to their village, established as an army camp eleven years ago.  Benjamin D’Urban is the governor of Britain's Cape Colony on South Africa’s Atlantic Coast. The first order of business is to build defenses against an expected attack by the Zulu nation. Zulu King Shaka granted the settlers 6500 km² of coastal land in 1827, but relations have grown tense since Shaka’s assassination and British encroachment into Zulu lands. In 2023, Durban will be South Africa’s third largest city and largest port.

The streets of Johannesburg, South Africa are illuminated by electric street lights. The first installation of the electric lighting in Johannesburg done was in 1889, at "The Amphitheatre," a building in the city center.

The Edinburgh Missionary Conference ends in Scotland, and is a turning point in the missionary movement in Africa. From the church-building work of 19th century Protestant Christian missions, the 20th century emphasis will be on the Protestant Christian ecumenical movement, which would later be described as the “New Reformation.” Indiginisation is also proposed, whereby Africans themselves will do more missionary and evangelical work within Africa.

Indentured servitude of Indian labourers is banned by Britain 75 years after Britain allowed the often-abused practice in its overseas colonies. The decision is made largely because the system has exhausted its profitability. Since 1842, British Mauritius has imported 453,063 Indentured workers; the Natal Colony in South Africa has imported 152,184 Indians; Seychelles 6,315; and East Africa 32,000, in the greatest wave of immigration Africa has known to date. (pic: Indian indentured servants arriving in Natal)

The Rhodesian Ridgeback becomes the only recognised dog breed indigenous to Southern Africa, as standardisation for the breed is established today by breeder F.W. Barnes in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). The standardisation will be officially accepted by the South African Kennel Union in 1926. Known as the African Lion Hunter, the dogs were introduced by South African Boers in 1700s and bred to track big game, including lions, and hunt smaller animals. Prized as watchdogs and family pets, the dog, one of six dog breeds indigenous to Africa, has hair on the top of its back growing in the opposite direction as the rest of its fur, forming a ridge.

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South Africa’s Liquor Act goes into effect, prohibiting Black and Indian South Africans from being employed or even stepping inside establishments that sell alcohol, or to trade in alcoholic beverages themselves. Immediately, 3,000 Indian South Africans are fired from their jobs at breweries.

Twin national referendums proposed by Egyptian President Gamal Nasser (pic), granting women the right to vote and establishing a National Assembly, are overwhelmingly passed. The referendums have been promoted as a way to fulfill the mission of the 1952 Revolution, and create a one-party state.

Two months into the Rwandan Civil War, with hundreds of thousands of Tutsi killed in on-going genocide, French troops arrive ahead of U.N. peacekeepers to assist with humanitarian aid.

In The Gambia, Englishman Andrew Hawkins, descended of 16th century British naval commander and slave trader John Hawkins, publicly asks forgiveness for the crimes his ancestor committed against Africans. After a “walk of captivity” with family and friends that duplicates the treatment of Africans enslaved by his ancestor, he kneels at a ceremony at Independence Stadium in Bakau, wearing chains. Gambian Vice President Isatou Saidy removes the chains in a symbolic show of forgiveness.

Niger, in the centre of the Sahel drought, records its highest temperature ever, 48.2 °C (118.8 °F), at Bilima. Water scarcity is widespread.