Timeline Tuesday 1 July 1856

Events on Tuesday 1 July 1856 1

• 1856 Natal becomes a separate British colony Colony of Natal split from the Cape Colony On 1 July 1856, Natal was proclaimed a separate British colony, with its own legislative council, after previously being administered as part of the Cape Colony. The colony, centered on Pietermaritzburg and the port of Durban, drew British settlers to the sugar-growing region on South Africa's east coast. It later became one of the founding provinces of the Union of South Africa in 1910.