title: 1814 in South Africa
text: # 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
  