List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1864 in South Africa.
Incumbents
Events
- January
- February
- May
- 10 – Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, State President of the Orange Free State from 1860 to 1863, is inaugurated as President of the Executive Council of the South African Republic for a second term.
- August
- December
- Unknown date
- The Republic of New Scotland is set up in Roburnia in what is now the Amsterdam region.
Births
- 2 February - Jan Brand, lawyer and politician, and the fourth state president of the Orange Free State. (d. 1888)
- 6 November - Abraham Bailey, diamond tycoon, politician, financier and cricketer. (d. 1940)
Deaths
- 1 February – David Hume, explorer and big-game hunter. (b. 1796)
- 5 October – John Fairbairn, newspaper proprietor, educator, financier and politician. (b. 1794)
Railways
Railway lines opened
Locomotives
- The first of three 2-4-0 tank locomotives are acquired as motive power for the Wynberg line, one by the Wynberg Railway Company and the other two by the Cape Town Railway and Dock Company who undertakes to rent and operate the line.
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Sovereign states |
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- The Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Ivory Coast
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
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States with limited recognition |
- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
- Somaliland
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Dependencies and other territories |
- Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla (Spain)
- Madeira (Portugal)
- Mayotte / Réunion (France)
- Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)
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