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An illustration of a bank run on Seamen's Savings Bank during the Panic of 1857. The Panic of 1857 was a financial crisis in the United States caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy. Because of the invention of the telegraph by Samuel F. Morse in 1844, the Panic of 1857 was the first financial ...
Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: Sir George Grey. [1] [2] Lieutenant-governor of the Colony of Natal: John Scott. State President of the Orange Free State: Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff. [3] President of the Executive Council of the South African Republic: Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (from 6 January). [4]
Pages in category "Historical constitutions of South Africa" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
1857 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1857th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 857th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 19th century, and the 8th year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1857, the ...
The first constitution was enacted by the South Africa Act 1909, the longest-lasting to date. Since 1961, the constitutions have promulgated a republican form of government. Since 1997, the Constitution has been amended by eighteen amendments. The Constitution is formally entitled the "Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996."
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (17 September 1819 – 19 May 1901) was a South African political leader. [2] An Afrikaner (or "Boer"), he helped establish the South African Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek or ZAR; also referred to as Transvaal), was the first president of the ZAR, and also compiled its constitution.
[2]: 542 [note 1] In the Northern United States, it became "the book against slavery." [3]: 75 A book reviewer wrote, "Next to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Hinton Helper's critique of slavery and the Southern class system, The Impending Crisis of the South (1857), was arguably the most important antislavery book of the 1850s." [4]
Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: Sir George Grey. [1] [2] Lieutenant-governor of the Colony of Natal: John Scott. State President of the Orange Free State: Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff. [3] President of the Executive Council of the South African Republic: Marthinus Wessel Pretorius. [4]