Every dated occasion in the record
290 dated occasions — grants, transfers, baptisms, marriages, deaths — in the order they happened.
An event page names its people, its place, its sources, and the stories that tell it.
1600s (1)
- The Dutch East India Company is chartered · 20 March 1602
1670s (1)
- Two Dutch baptisms are tested against the children, and both fail · 31 March 1675 · 3 people
1680s (3)
- Jan Oosthuijsz enlists as adelborst and sails from Texel · 13 May 1685 · Texel · 1 people
- The Land van Schouwen anchors at the Cape · 17 September 1685 · Cape Colony / South Africa · 1 people
- Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes · 22 October 1685
1690s (2)
- He takes his discharge and becomes a free burgher · 15 August 1690 · Cape Colony / South Africa · 1 people
- Settles at Drakenstein on the immigrant terms · 1691 · Drakenstein · 1 people
1710s (2)
- Pieter Jansz Swanepoel marries Maria Sibella Sachs · 1 May 1712 · Stellenbosch · 2 people
- Two Oosthuizen daughters die in the smallpox year · 1713 · Drakenstein · 4 people
1720s (2)
- He makes his will, and says where he is from · 1722 · 1 people
- Jacobus Oosthuysen baptised, with a single witness · 22 November 1722 · Drakenstein · 4 people
1730s (1)
- Rosa Swanepoel marries Johannes Hendrik Conradie · 19 July 1737 · Stellenbosch · 2 people
1740s (1)
- Nieuwmunster passes from Swanepoel to Conradie · 26 October 1747 · Land van Waveren / Tulbagh · 2 people
1750s (1)
- Ockert Oosthuizen baptised as "Ocker" · 1755 · 5 people
1760s (4)
- Zacharias and Dina de Beer take Queeckvalleij · 1762 · Prince Albert (Kweekvallei) · 1 people
- Britain's mills begin to mechanise · 1764
- Alviso Louis Almoro Pisani is born at Venice · about 1767 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Jan de Bruijn baptised · 16 April 1769 · 5 people
1770s (2)
- François Renier Duminy arrives at the Cape · 1771 · Cape Colony / South Africa · 1 people
- De Claar Stroom loan farm granted · 1777 · Prince Albert
1780s (4)
- Louis Almorò Pisani reaches the Cape · 1781 · 1 people
- Ockert Almero Oosthuizen baptised, with Venetian noblemen as witnesses · 11 May 1786 · 3 people
- The first merinos reach the Cape · 1789
- The French Revolution begins · 14 July 1789
1790s (3)
- The van der Merwes cross from the Boland into the Hantam · 1794–1808 · Tygerhoek · 2 people
- Pisani joins the Swellendam rebellion · 1795 · 1 people
- Britain takes the Cape · 1795 · Cape Colony / South Africa
1800s (9)
- The estate of Jacobus Oosthuysen d'oude is inventoried · 27 April 1802 · 14 people
- The Napoleonic Wars · 1803–1815
- Britain takes the Cape a second time · 8 January 1806 · Cape Colony / South Africa
- Ockert Almero Oosthuizen marries Adriana Cecilia Venter · October 1807 · 2 people
- The estate at de Modder Fonteyn is inventoried · 23 April 1809 · Citrusdal (Olifants River valley) · 4 people
- Ockert Oosthuijzen dies and his youngest is taken in by his eldest son · about 1809-04 · 4 people
- Ockert Almero Oosthuizen the elder dies at Citrusdal · about 1809-04 · Citrusdal (Olifants River valley) · 1 people
- Wijnand van Zijl baptised · 6 December 1809 · Prince Albert · 3 people
- Jacobus van Zijl baptised · 6 December 1809 · Prince Albert · 3 people
1810s (5)
- Jan de Bruin jr, son of the Rondabel household, baptised at Graaff-Reinet · 9 April 1815 · Graaff-Reinet · 2 people
- Vrolykheid No. 61, Tulbagh, surveyed for erfpacht · 25 January 1816 · Land van Waveren / Tulbagh · 3 people
- Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen baptised at Graaff-Reinet · 16 June 1817 · Graaff-Reinet · 7 people
- Estate inventory of Ignatius Michael du Plessis taken on the loan farm Rondabel · 2 May 1818 · Prince Albert · 2 people
- Vrolykheid No. 61 titled, Tul.Q.1-23 · 25 June 1818 · Land van Waveren / Tulbagh · 1 people
1820s (13)
- The British settlers land at Algoa Bay · 1820 · Cape Colony / South Africa
- Ockert Almero Oosthuizen appears in the Beaufort West opgaafrol · 1821 · Beaufort West · 1 people
- Daniel Jacobus Oosthuijzen baptised at Beaufort West, the direct-ancestor couple, at Kriedouw in 1821 · 19 August 1821 · Prince Albert · 3 people
- Three Oosthuijzen siblings on one register page · 19 August 1821 · Prince Albert · 4 people
- Oosthuizens established at Middelwater · about 1821 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Drought at Beaufort West · 1823 · Beaufort West
- Estate inventory of Jan de Bruin, holder of the loan farm Rondabel · 13 June 1823 · Prince Albert · 2 people
- Bloemendaal surveyed by the landsurveyor Bower · 7 May 1825 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Susanna Elisabeth Carolina Oosthuisen baptised at Swellendam · 14 August 1825 · 2 people
- Estate inventory of Fredrik Jacobus Botha · 23 February 1826 · Prince Albert · 2 people
- Drought at Beaufort West · 1827 · Beaufort West
- Jan Adriaan Venter dies at the place Rondavel · 23 July 1829 · Prince Albert · 2 people
- Two Oosthuizen sisters of Middelwater marry two van Zyl brothers · 1829–1840 · Prince Albert · 4 people
1830s (25)
- Wool sheep farming established in the Cape · 1830
- Jacobus van Zyl marries Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen at Beaufort West · 25 September 1830 · Prince Albert · 2 people
- Vlakfontein surveyed by C.L. Stretch · July 1833 · Beaufort West · 3 people
- Rondabel surveyed by C.L. Stretch for Johannes Strydom · August 1833 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- The loan farm Vrolykheid surveyed for Jacobus Johannes Oosthuisen · August 1833 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- The loan farm Middelwater surveyed for Okert Oosthuizen · August 1833 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Klaarstroom No.184 surveyed for Christian Hatting Senior · August 1833 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Wilgamount and Klein Valie surveyed by C. Lennox Stretch · August 1833 · Prince Albert · 4 people
- Reim Hoogte and Venters Kloof surveyed by C. Lennox Stretch · August 1833 · Prince Albert · 3 people
- Britain abolishes slavery at the Cape · 1834 · Cape Colony / South Africa
- Varsche Fontein first surveyed by C.L. Stretch for Charl du Toit · 1834 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Spreeuw Fontein first surveyed by C.L. Stretch · 1834 · Prince Albert
- Great Trek begins · 1836 · Cape Colony / South Africa
- Ockert Almero Oosthuizen born at Middelwater · 27 November 1836 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Jacobus van Zyl treks from Prince Albert to Natal · 1836–1838 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- A cloudburst floods Beaufort West · March 1837 · Beaufort West
- Ockert Almero Oosthuizen baptised at Beaufort West · 5 March 1837 · Beaufort West · 7 people
- Marthinus Oosthuizen rides through the impi at Van Rensburg's laager · 16 February 1838 · 1 people
- Adriana Cecilia van Zyl baptised at Beaufort West · 11 July 1838 · Prince Albert · 3 people
- Jacobus Petrus van Zyl baptised, and both van Zyl households are in one witness list · 19 August 1838 · Prince Albert · 5 people
- The letter from Kouka · 19 November 1838 · Prince Albert · 7 people
- The Wenkommando marches on Dingaanstat · 28 November 1838 · Prince Albert
- The Battle of Blood River · 16 December 1838 · Prince Albert
- Jan Adriaan van Zijl born at Middelwater · 1839 · Prince Albert · 3 people
- Keerom granted as a rekwesplaas - about 6,000 morgen · 1839–1843 · Prince Albert · 1 people
1840s (18)
- Jacobus van Zyl remarries at Potchefstroom, the first hard evidence he went north · 27 July 1840 · Prince Albert · 2 people
- Varsche Fontein granted to Charl du Toit · 15 April 1841 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Spreeuw Fontein & Toornits Kraal granted on perpetual quitrent to C.F.J. Meyer · 15 April 1841 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Five Karoo farms granted on perpetual quitrent on one day · 15 April 1841 · Prince Albert · 5 people
- Rietkuil No. 119 granted to Pieter Johannes Swanepoel · 15 April 1841 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Wolwekraal No. 17 granted to Johannes Hendrik Venter · 15 April 1841 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Klein Sleutlefontein titled to Johannes Stein in the 15 April 1841 series · 15 April 1841 · Veldkornetskap Traka · 1 people
- Klein Valie titled on quitrent Bf.W.Q. 5-6 · 15 April 1841 · Prince Albert
- Wilgemond titled on quitrent Bf.W. 5-9 to J.M.J. van Vuuren · 15 April 1841 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Reim Hoogte granted to Willem Johannes Gous · 15 April 1841 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Haggas granted on quitrent Bf.W.Q. 5-31 · 15 April 1841 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Doorn Kraal Lot B granted on quitrent to Hendrik Johannes van Eck · 15 April 1841 · 1 people
- Zwartberg NG congregation founded on the farm Kweekvallei - and the town of Prince Albert with it · 1842 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Gerolm Marincowitz of Trieste marries Hester Carolina Adriana Hitge · 5 June 1844 · 2 people
- Kweekvallei renamed Prince Albert · 1845 · Prince Albert
- Charles Frederick Hitge dies on Vrolykheid · 29 July 1846 · Prince Albert · 3 people
- Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen names a Marico farm 'Klaarstroom' · 1848 · 1 people
- Cornelis Floris Johannes Meyer dies · 21 July 1848 · Prince Albert · 1 people
1850s (13)
- Portion 1 cut from Spreeuwfontein - four-fifths of the farm · 1850 · Prince Albert
- Wool becomes the district staple · 1850
- A de Beer marries an Oosthuizen at Prince Albert · 27 January 1851 · Prince Albert (Kweekvallei) · 2 people
- The Cape gets a parliament · 1853 · Cape Colony / South Africa
- The drought that dried the springs, Beaufort West · 1856 · Beaufort West
- Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen dies on Middelwater · 24 September 1856 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Wolwekraal divided in two · 10 March 1857 · Prince Albert · 3 people
- Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen remarries at George · 9 February 1858 · 2 people
- Meiringspoort opened · 3 March 1858 · Klaarstroom · 2 people
- Adriana Cecilia Venter dies, six days after Meiringspoort opened · 9 March 1858 · 1 people
- A town is laid out on De Claar Stroom, and named Petersburg for Petrus Oosthuizen · 1858–4 August 1860 · Klaarstroom · 1 people
- Ockert Almero Oosthuizen dies in his own house at Prince Albert · 26 February 1859 · Prince Albert (Kweekvallei) · 1 people
- Kopjes Kraal surveyed as Crown Land by J.A. Thwaits and J.W. du T. Melvill · November 1859 · Prince Albert
1860s (15)
- Klaarstroom village laid out on Oosthuizen land · 1860 · Klaarstroom
- Jacobus Oosthuizen sits on the building committee of the Prince Albert church · 1860 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Ostriches: wire fencing, lucerne, and the first feather boom · 1860
- Johanna Machteld Petronella Strydom dies on Middelwater · 18 February 1860 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Kopjes Kraal granted out of Crown Land · 11 September 1862 · Prince Albert
- Kopjes Kraal resurveyed by L. Marquard · November 1863 · Prince Albert
- Ockert Almero Oosthuizen marries Aletta Catharina Maria Helena Hitge · 1 December 1863 · Prince Albert · 2 people
- The Bloemfontein kerkraad talks him out of founding a town · before 1866 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Brandfort laid out on Jacobus van Zyl's farm Keerom · 1866 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Nicolaas James Marincowitz marries Catharina Maria Oosthuizen · 10 April 1866 · Prince Albert · 2 people
- Diamonds found near Hopetown - the Eureka · 1867 · Cape Colony / South Africa
- Rondabel granted on perpetual quitrent to Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen and Stephanus Johannes Theron · 21 January 1868 · Prince Albert · 2 people
- Maria Johanna Oosthuysen baptised at Beaufort · 14 March 1869 · 3 people
- The Springfontein Dam wall gives way · 23 October 1869 · Beaufort West
- The Suez Canal opens · 17 November 1869 · Cape Colony / South Africa
1870s (13)
- A million kilograms of wool through the poort · June 1870 · Klaarstroom
- Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen dies on Middelwater · 24 April 1871 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Kopjes Kraal re-titled under P.A.Q.1-28 · 17 May 1871 · Prince Albert
- An aardvark turns up the FIRST gold nugget on Spreeuwfontein - twenty years before the rush · August 1871 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Portion 2 (Lot 2) cut from Spreeuwfontein · 1872 · Prince Albert
- Atherstone reports the Karoo rocks "too young" for a productive goldfield · 1872 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Atherstone suspects the first nugget was salted; Dunn says it was worked by human hands · 1872 · Prince Albert · 2 people
- Responsible government at the Cape · 1872 · Cape Colony / South Africa
- The Long Depression begins · 1873 · Cape Colony / South Africa
- A more severe drought, Beaufort West · 1876 · Beaufort West
- Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen baptised at Prince Albert · 10 February 1878 · Prince Albert (Kweekvallei) · 6 people
- Benjamin François Duminy awarded the South Africa Medal · 1879 · Cape Colony / South Africa · 1 people
- Part of Roode Els Bosch and Oorlogs Kloof transferred to G. Marincowitz · 21 June 1879 · Prince Albert · 1 people
1880s (10)
- The railway reaches Beaufort West · 1880 · Cape Colony / South Africa
- First Anglo-Boer War · December 1880
- The Fencing Act, and the Karoo is enclosed · 1883
- Middelwater quitrent to J.D.J. Oosthuysen and another · 24 March 1884 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Frederik Simon Oosthuizen donates 150 pounds for the Prince Albert church organ · 1885 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- The first flood closes Meiringspoort · 1885 · Klaarstroom
- Sophia Johanna Mocke dies at the farm Ezelsfontein · 3 December 1885 · 1 people
- Gold on the Witwatersrand · 1886 · Cape Colony / South Africa
- The Swartberg Pass opens · 10 January 1888 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Frederik Simon Oosthuizen elected deacon · 1889 · Prince Albert · 1 people
1890s (24)
- Ger(H)olm Marincowitz dies at Vrolykheid · 13 May 1890 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Prince Albert gold rush on Spreeufontein ("Gatsplaas") · 1891 · Prince Albert
- Thomas Bain publishes "The Nuggets of the Gouph and the Prince Albert Gold Fields" · 1891 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Lodewyk Bothma lays out Gatsplaas, named for the hole the first nugget came from · 1891 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Prospecting spreads well beyond Spreeufontein · 1891 · Prince Albert
- Sydney Cowper publishes a sixpenny guide with a map of the claims · 1891 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Jan Koevies, a shepherd, finds the SECOND nugget on Klein Waterval - twenty years after the first · July 1891 · Prince Albert · 3 people
- 19,050 morgen of Spreeuwfontein thrown open to the public · 4 August 1891 · Prince Albert
- A further 3,898 morgen added to the public diggings · 20 September 1891 · Prince Albert
- Interest in the goldfield collapses, four months after it began · November 1891 · Prince Albert
- The Prince Albert goldfield abandoned · 1892 · Prince Albert
- A fourteen-year-old drives three teachers over the Swartberg Pass · 1892 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Arthur Sawyer tells the government the district's gold prospects are not good · 1893 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Spreeuwfontein Portion 1 resurveyed by D.W. Ballot · April 1894 · Prince Albert
- Jan Adriaan van Zijl dies at Klaarstroom in the Marico, the name completes its journey · 22 March 1895 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Maria Johanna Oosthuizen marries Michiel Josias Botes at Prince Albert · 1 July 1895 · 2 people
- The Gatsplaas post office closes · 31 August 1895 · Prince Albert
- Rinderpest sweeps southern Africa · 1896
- Southern part of Schurfte Kopjes transferred to N.J. Marincowitz · 12 August 1896 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Varsche Fontein resurveyed for amended title under Act 9 of 1879 · April 1897 · Prince Albert
- Eastern part of Klipfontein transferred to B.L. Steyl · 28 October 1897 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Cecil John Rhodes donates an organ to the Prince Albert church · about 1897 · Prince Albert · 3 people
- Drought empties the Springfontein Dam · 1898 · Beaufort West
- Anglo-Boer War · 1899 · Cape Colony / South Africa
1900s (18)
- The feather boom at its height · 1900
- Daniel Coghill is killed by lightning on Lemoenrietfontein · 15 February 1900 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Scheepers's commando rides into Klaarstroom · 1 February 1901 · Klaarstroom
- The skirmish at Remhoogte, and the death of Johannes Kleu · 2 February 1901 · 1 people
- Scheepers's men are driven out of Klaarstroom and escape onto Zeekoegat · about 1901 · Prince Albert
- Remainder of Lot C of Roode Els Bosch and Oorlogs Kloof transferred to B.L. Steyl · 14 July 1902 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Varsche Fontein amended title to J.R.G. Luttig · 1903 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen marries Johanna Fredricka Malherbe · 19 May 1903 · 2 people
- Jacobus Daniel Johannes Oosthuizen dies a 'retired gentleman' at 7 Schoonder Street, Cape Town · 11 June 1903 · 1 people
- Amended titles issued for both Spreeuwfontein and Varsche Fontein on one day · 19 June 1903 · Prince Albert · 2 people
- A fiery public meeting in Prince Albert over a fresh gold find near Zeekoegat · 6 February 1905 · Prince Albert
- Frederik Simon Oosthuizen builds the Zeekoegat church · 1906 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- The Zeekoegat church inaugurated · February 1907 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- The Zeekoegat church consecrated by Rev Wilcocks and Rev J.R. Albertyn · 23 February 1907 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- The Springfontein Dam runs empty a second time · 1908 · Beaufort West
- Rossel Erf cut out of Reim Hoogte · 15 June 1908 · Prince Albert · 2 people
- Spreeuwfontein Portion 1 divided into three near-equal shares · 1909 · Prince Albert
- Hendrik Lodewijk Malherbe Oosthuizen baptised at Prince Albert · 12 September 1909 · Prince Albert (Kweekvallei) · 6 people
1910s (24)
- Union of South Africa · 1910 · Cape Colony / South Africa
- First communion held at Zeekoegat · 20 March 1911 · Prince Albert
- Elder P.H. Theron gives the Zeekoegat church its silver communion cups · 1912 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Varsche Fontein begins to break up: Lot A cut off · 1913 · Prince Albert
- Witberg surveyed, then reserved for forestry · March 1913 · Prince Albert · 2 people
- The Natives Land Act · 19 June 1913 · Cape Colony / South Africa
- Meeting at Klipgat on the fencing act · August 1913 · Prince Albert
- First World War · 1914
- The feather market collapses · 1914
- A bell is raised beside the Zeekoegat church · 1914 · Prince Albert
- Gerhardus Fransoiys Beukes dies and is buried on Varsche Fontein · 14 October 1914 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- A township is laid out for Zeekoegat, and comes to nothing · 1915 · Prince Albert
- One of Beaufort West's worst droughts · 1915 · Beaufort West
- Witberg and Venters Kloof Annex reserved for forestry · 21 January 1915 · Prince Albert
- Maria Johanna van Oosterzee Duminy dies at Prince Albert · 7 April 1916 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Thomas Frederik Marincowitz dies on Vrolikheid · 20 October 1916 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe marries Catharina Isabella Bruijn · 1 October 1917 · Calvinia · 2 people
- A night of anguish: 30 cm of rain in twelve hours · 1918 · Beaufort West
- Gert Jan Oosthuizen Marincowitz marries Anna Margaretha Oosthuizen · 23 April 1918 · 2 people
- "Black October" - Spanish influenza reaches South Africa · September 1918
- Botterkraal bought out of the du Plessis estate · 23 January 1919 · Prince Albert · 3 people
- Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen buys Hartebeest Voedpad on Rondabel · 10 June 1919 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Klein Valie broken into five named pieces · 8 October 1919 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Petrus Gideon van Rensburg marries Maria Margaretha Walters · 10 November 1919 · 2 people
1920s (13)
- Elandsfontein on Rondabel transferred to A. Oosthuizen · 8 July 1921 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Ockert Almero Oosthuizen dies in Church Street, Prince Albert · 2 January 1922 · Prince Albert (Kweekvallei) · 2 people
- Groot Rivier (Portion 2) transferred off Varsche Fontein · 26 July 1922 · Prince Albert
- Wit Plaats transferred to Vincent Charles Marincowitz · 30 September 1922 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Plaat Fontein (Portion 3) transferred off Varsche Fontein · 27 March 1923 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Vaste Water cut from Middelwater · 26 May 1923 · Prince Albert
- Welbedacht (Portion 4) transferred off Varsche Fontein to C.M. Fourie · 24 March 1925 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- The 1926 drought: 6,3 cm of rain in the year · 1926 · Beaufort West
- Avondrust cut from Middelwater · 26 January 1926 · Prince Albert
- The old "trek" across Kopjes Kraal formally cancelled · 5 March 1926 · Prince Albert
- Christiaan Hendrik Swanepoel dies at Botterkraal · 14 November 1927 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Frederik Simon Oosthuizen builds the Zeekoegat church hall · 1929 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- The Great Depression · 1929
1930s (16)
- The great drought · 1930 · Prince Albert
- Frederik Simon Oosthuizen gives 300 Afrikaans Bibles to the children of the congregation · 1933 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Vrolykheid No. 61 subdivided; Ptn 2 named Vrolikheid Suid · 1933 · Land van Waveren / Tulbagh
- Windwaai cut out of Koude Veld and sold · 7 September 1933 · Prince Albert · 2 people
- South Africa leaves the gold standard · 28 December 1933 · Cape Colony / South Africa
- Kromrivier cut off Kopjes Kraal · 1934 · Prince Albert
- Klein Elandsfontein transferred to Gerolm Samuel Marincowitz · 16 May 1934 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Uitkyk Nek transferred to Vincent Charles Marincowitz · 18 December 1935 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Marinco transferred to Vincent Charles Marincowitz · 18 December 1935 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Frederik Simon Oosthuizen gives the Zeekoegat land and buildings to the NG Gemeente Prince Albert · 1936 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Faans Kraal (Frans Kraal) transferred to Vincent Charles Marincowitz · 24 August 1936 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Frederik Simon "Oom Frikkie" Oosthuizen dies and is buried beside his church · 10 October 1936 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Noorsdoringkop and Kleinbotterkraal transferred to Anna Margaretha Marincowitz born Oosthuizen · 20 December 1937 · Prince Albert · 2 people
- Second World War · 1939 · 1 people
- Johanna Maria Magdalena Bothma buried at "Gatsplaas" · 14 May 1939 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Klipfontein A titled and partitioned on one day · 29 August 1939 · Prince Albert · 2 people
1940s (12)
- Botterkraal fenced, and the neighbours named · 1940 · Prince Albert · 4 people
- The 1816 Vrolykheid diagram cancelled · 10 December 1940 · Land van Waveren / Tulbagh
- The 1941 flood, one of the worst on record · 6 April 1941 · Beaufort West
- Oorlogs Kloof consolidated to the Union Government · 16 April 1941 · Prince Albert
- Six dry years: a mean of 13,1 cm · 1942 · Beaufort West
- Botterkraal sold, mineral rights held back · 6 June 1943 · Prince Albert · 2 people
- Tokkie Marincowitz marries Frances Duminy Joubert · 25 August 1945 · 2 people
- Hendrik Lodewyk Malherbe Oosthuizen marries Anna Tobia Jeanne Joubert · 25 May 1946 · 2 people
- The Koup drought, parts of the region turn to desert · 1946–1947 · Prince Albert
- Apartheid begins · 1948 · Cape Colony / South Africa
- The waterhouse runs dry, and the drought breaks · 1949 · Beaufort West
- Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe marries Maria Magritha van Rensburg at Williston · 17 January 1949 · Prince Albert · 2 people
1950s (5)
- Vincent Charles "Winnie" Marincowitz dies on Vrolikheid · 6 February 1950 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- The van der Merwes come south to the Prince Albert district · about 1950 · Prince Albert · 2 people
- Gert Jan Oosthuizen Marincowitz dies · 8 October 1952 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Four European astronomers land at the Cape to find a southern sky · 6 November 1955 · Prince Albert
- The European Southern Observatory builds a station on Zeekoegat · 1958–1961 · Prince Albert
1960s (10)
- The Republic · 31 May 1961 · Cape Colony / South Africa
- Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen dies at fifteen · 1965 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- SOEKOR drills the Karoo for oil - and finds uranium instead · 1965–1969 · Prince Albert
- Deacon Pat Marincowitz gives the Zeekoegat church a second set of communion cups · 1966 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Elizabeth Caroline "Lizzie" Marincowitz buried on Vrolikheid · 1968 · Prince Albert · 2 people
- Helena Marincowitz makes the replacement pulpit cloth, an exact replica of the 1906 one · 1968 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe dies at 44, on his own birthday · 8 April 1968 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Maria Magritha van Rensburg buys the Varschefontein Remainder · 1968–1973 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Original 1834 Varsche Fontein diagram formally cancelled · 1969 · Prince Albert
- Uranium prospecting in the Main Karoo Basin · 1969–1985 · Prince Albert
1970s (2)
- Maria Magritha Marincowitz buys Varsche Fontein · 1973 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Anna Margaretha Marincowitz dies at ninety-four · 3 December 1973 · Prince Albert · 1 people
1980s (3)
- The Zeekoegat church declared a National Monument · March 1983 · Prince Albert
- Roy Oosthuizen's fossil (Dwykaselachus oosthuizeni) later named for him · 1986 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Tokkie Marincowitz writes for the Landbougenootskap's commemorative book · 1987 · Prince Albert (Kweekvallei) · 1 people
1990s (6)
- The 1834 Spreeuwfontein diagram cancelled, superseded by Farm 215 · 28 August 1991 · Prince Albert
- Democratic South Africa · 1994 · Cape Colony / South Africa
- The Swartberg Angora stud no. 242 changes hands · 1995 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- The last of the dome: the South African project is decommissioned · 1996 · Prince Albert
- Varsche Fontein transferred to a family trust · 6 November 1997 · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Roy Oosthuizen dies · 20 September 1999 · Prince Albert · 1 people
2000s (1)
- Centenary of the Zeekoegat church · 2 December 2007 · Prince Albert · 1 people
2010s (5)
- 123,450 square kilometres of the Karoo applied for under shale gas exploration · 2011 · Prince Albert
- Robert Gess finds the nodule in a drawer and puts it through a CT scanner · 2013 · Prince Albert
- The 1960s cores are re-read, and the shale gas is deflated · 2017 · Prince Albert
- The High Court sets aside the fracking regulations · 2017 · Prince Albert
- Dwykaselachus oosthuizeni is published in Nature · 4 January 2017 · Prince Albert · 1 people
2020s (1)
- The 2011 moratorium is to be lifted once new regulations are published · October 2025 · Prince Albert
No date (2)
- Spreeufontein subdivided; Vredendal becomes the van der Merwe farm · the 1950s · Prince Albert · 1 people
- Roy Oosthuizen picks up the nodule on Zwartkraal · the 1980s · Prince Albert · 1 people