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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]
Commanders of the Cape Colony (1652–1691) Name Period Title Jan van Riebeeck: 7 April 1652 – 6 May 1662 Commander Zacharias Wagenaer: 6 May 1662 – 27 September 1666 Commander Cornelis van Quaelberg: 27 September 1666 – 18 June 1668 Commander Jacob Borghorst: 18 June 1668 – 25 March 1670 Commander Pieter Hackius: 25 March 1670 – 30 ...
Jan van Riebeeck was on one of the rescue ships that had come to rescue the shipwrecked sailors, and upon seeing the land, he decided to return. They arrived in the harbour of modern-day Cape Town on 6 April 1652 with five ships: Reijger, Oliphant, Goede Hoop, Walvisch, Dromedaris.
Jan van Riebeeck landed at the Cape on 6 April 1652, setting up a supply station and fortifications for the Dutch East India Company.The decade saw the beginning of European settlement, marked by the introduction of crops from Europe and the New World and culminating in war with the Khoikhoi in 1659.
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.
To this end, a small VOC expedition under the command of Jan van Riebeeck reached Table Bay on April 6, 1652. [1] The Cape was under Dutch rule from 1652 to 1795 and again from 1803 to 1806. [ 2 ]
Van Riebeeck's party of three vessels landed at the cape on 6 April 1652. The Cape was under Dutch rule from 1652 to 1795 and again from 1803 to 1806. [10] The group quickly erected shelters and laid out vegetable gardens and orchards, and are preserved in the Company's Garden. Water from the Fresh River, which descended from Table Mountain ...
To this end, a small VOC expedition under the command of Jan van Riebeeck reached Table Bay on 6 April 1652. [28] The VOC had settled at the Cape in order to supply their trading ships. The Cape and the VOC had to import Dutch farmers to establish farms to supply the passing ships as well as to supply the growing VOC settlement.