In 1914 the National Party holds its Inaugural meeting.

Pieter Grobler is appointed as chairman of the commission which had to investigate the basic principles of the party.

Tieleman Roos is elected leader of the party at the first Transvaal congress

Leopold Richard Baur, Moravian Missionary dies in 1889 in Queenstown

John Buchan, statesman, author and publisher, was born in Perth, Scotland in 1875

Cetshwayo appears as a caricature in colour by ‘Spy’ appeared in Vanity Fair on 26.8.1882.

Louis Trichardt becomes president of the Council of Justice in 1812

Carl Von Brandis becomes temporary and provisional mining commissioner in 1886.

Sir Joseph Banks sails with Captain Cook on the Endeavour in 1768.

Daniel Stephanus Botha is born in Goudini in 1852

Site for the erection of the Castle is chosen in 1665

Sugar pioneer Friend Addison dies in 1925

Daniel Roelof Fouche is born in Kommissiedrif, Rustenburg 1869

Hebrew Scholar Judah Landau died in Johannesburg in 1942

Alister Mckintosh Miller founded Union Airways Company Limited

Johannes Henoch Neethling is born in Cape Town in 1770

Johann Rissik surveyor-General of the Transvaal Republic dies in Pretoria in 1925

William Robinson member of the Volksraad dies in Middelburg, Transvaal in 1914

Matthys Stadler, farmer, trader and Port Natal pioneer is born in Malmesbury 1794

Christiaan Andries Van Niekerk, Member of Parliament and President of the Senate are born at Vegkop. Heilbron in 1874

David Beukes, minister of the NG Kerk, conducts the funeral of the ex-president, Nico Diederichs.

Jan Botes, Free State Pioneer is born at Baviaansfontein, Koup (Beaufort) in 1800