1814 in South Africa
# 1814 in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1814 in South Africa.

## Events

* 13 August - The French are defeated by the British and the Netherlands is reverted to a monarchy. In the complex peace treaty, the Cape Colony is permanently taken from the Dutch by the United Kingdom.
* A mail packet service is started between Great Britain and the Cape

## Births

* 27 May - William Guybon Atherstone, medical practitioner, naturalist and geologist, (d. 1898)
* 5 June - John Molteno, future first Prime Minister of the Cape
