title: 1855 in South Africa
text: # 1855 in South Africa
  
  The following lists events that happened during 1855 in South Africa.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Pretoria is established
  * 20 Irish miners arrive to work in the Namaqualand copper mines
  * 27 August - Jacobus Boshoff becomes the 2nd president of the Orange Free State
  
  ## Births
  
  * 24 March - Olive Schreiner, author and feminist
  