1850 in South Africa
# 1850 in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1850 in South Africa.

## Events

* Wesleyan settlers arrive in Natal
* The "Childe Herold", a British ship en route from Bombay to London is wrecked off Dassen Island, Cape Colony
* 23 April — A mass meeting is held in Cape Town to petition Queen Victoria to grant the Cape Colony a government

## Births

* 9 April — Julius Charles Wernher, financier and mine magnate
* 23 April — Andries Jacobus Bester, the Boer commandant of the Bethlehem commando, is born in Bloemfontein
* 4 September 1850 - Abraham Fischer, Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony. (d. 1913)
