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Durban

city in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

18 dated entries naming Durban, drawn from 16 separate years between 1839 CE and 2001 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Port Natal in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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19th century

  • 1839Henry Jervis is elected the Military Administrator of Port Natalsource
  • 1842June 4 – In South Africa, hunter Dick King rides into a British military base in Grahamstown, to warn that the Boers have besieged Durban (he had left 11 days earlier). The British army dispatches a relief force.source
  • 18424 June – In South Africa, hunter Dick King rides into the British military base in Grahamstown to warn that Boers have besieged Durban. He had set out eleven days earlier. The British Army dispatches a relief force.source
  • 186026 June – Natal – Durban to Point, 2 mi.source
  • 18674 April – Natal – Durban to Umgeni, 3 mi.source
  • 1877In February and March Whythes & Jackson Limited, contracted by the Natal government for the construction of the line from Durban to Pietermaritzburg, takes delivery of two construction locomotives appropriately named Durban and Pietermaritzburg.source
  • 1888The locomotive named Havelock, built in the Durban workshops and known as Hairy Mary during the Second Boer War, is the first locomotive to be designed and built in South Africa.source
  • 1893May 23 – Mahatma Gandhi arrives in Durban.source
  • 1896June 5 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi embarks from Durban for Calcutta en route to Bombay.source
  • 1896December 18 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi arrives back in Durban with his wife and two sons, but the ship is placed under a 5-day quarantine because Bombay was declared a plague-infected port. Quarantine will later be extended to 13 January 1897.source

20th century

  • 1901Mahatma Gandhi embarks at Durban for Mauritius en route to Bombay.source
  • 1902Mahatma Gandhi arrives in Durban from Bombay.source
  • 1904July 22 – The first 2,000 of 62,000 contracted Chinese coolies arrive at Durban in South Africa from Qinhuangdao to relieve the shortage of unskilled labourers in the Transvaal Colony gold mines, recruited and shipped by the Chinese Engineering and Mining Corporation (CEMC), of which Herbert Hoover is a director.source
  • 1909July 26 – Blue Anchor Line passenger/cargo liner SS Waratah, on her second voyage from Australia to Britain, leaves Durban and is lost without trace with all 211 aboard.source
  • 1938July 1 – The South African Press Association is established, with offices in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Bloemfontein and Pretoria.source
  • 1957A series of shark attacks near Durban occur during Black December.source
  • 1965October 4 – Durban rail accident: At least 150 are killed when a commuter train derails at the outskirts of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.source

21st century

  • 2001August 31 – The World Conference against Racism 2001 begins in Durban, South Africa. Israel and the United States withdraw three days later, alleging antisemitism in the conference.source

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