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1652 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1652nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 652nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 52nd year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1650s decade. As of the start of 1652, the ...
April 6 is the 96th day of the year ... 1580 – One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, ... 1652 – At the Cape of Good Hope, ...
Jan van Riebeeck arrives in Table Bay in April 1652, painted by Charles Davidson Bell. Van Riebeeck was Commander of the Cape from 1652 to 1662; he was charged with building a fort, with improving the natural anchorage at Table Bay, planting cereals, fruit, and vegetables, and obtaining livestock from the indigenous Khoi people.
On 6 April 1652, Jan van Riebeeck, a Dutchman employed by the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (V.O.C.), arrived at the Cape to take control of the burgeoning settlement that eventually became Cape Town. In the year 1658, Jan van Riebeeck imprisoned Autshumato on Robben Island. Despite his escape with another prisoner, the Dutch settlers ...
B. Amador Báez de Alpoim, General; Theodore Bathurst; Florimond de Beaune; María Eugenia de Beer; Anthonie Beerstraaten; Bartolomé de Benavente y Benavides
Bernert Willemsz Wijlant, the first European baby, was born at the Cape on 6 June 1652. [1] In 1654, Batavian convicts and political opponents were banished to the Cape bringing Islam to South Africa. Hout Bay, a sheltered cove just south of the Cape settlement is proposed as a settlement for Dutch families on 6 October 1654. [2]
13 April – Georges Fournier, Jesuit priest, geographer and mathematician (born 1595) May – Claude de L'Estoile, playwright and poet (born 1602) 10 May – Jacques Buteux, Jesuit missionary in Canada, shot (born 1600) 10 August – Jean Gaston, Duke of Valois, prince (born 1650) 18 August – Florimond de Beaune, mathematician (born 1601) [2]
The holiday was established on 6 April 1952 during the Van Riebeeck Festival in honour of the 300th anniversary of the arrival of the Dutch in South Africa. Jan van Riebeeck arrived at Table Bay on 6 April 1652 as a result Cape Town was founded. From 1980, the day became known as Founders Day (Stigtingsdag). [1]