UPDATED: 09/06/2022 9 June 1899, 30 mineworkers die in a dynamite explosion at the Kimberley Mine. 9 June 1940, Foundation stone for the new Catholic Cathedral laid. Pictured is the Kimberley Mine Main Shaft in circa 1910. The headgear is ...
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UPDATED: 07/06/2022 7 June 1898, Five miners die in fall of mine cage at De Beers mine. De Beers Directors meet with Kimberley Chamber The year 1904 saw the entire De Beers Board of Directors meet with the Kimberley Chamber ...
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UPDATED: 01/06/2022 1 June 1889, De Beers Consolidated Mines takes control of the Kimberley Mine. 1 June 1893, Anthony M Robeson appointed De Beers electrical engineer. 1 June 1896, A diamond weighing 503¼ carats found in the De Beers Mine. 1 June 1910, George ...
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UPDATED: 17/03/2022 17 March 1899, Seventh Session of the Cape Colony Mayoral Conference second day. 17 March 1934, Prince George visits Kimberley. PRINCE GEORGE ARRIVES IN KIMBERLEY Prince George, the Duke of Kent, was the fifth child of King George ...
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UPDATED: 31/01/2022 Nothing to report on this day in Kimberley’s history. Research is ongoing… Sir Ernest Oppenheimer’s telephone The telephone in what was Sir Ernest Oppenheimer’s office/study at 7 Lodge Road in Belgravia. Now a private residence, the house was ...
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UPDATED: 17/01/2022 17 January 1885, First mining compound opened at the Kimberley Mine by the French Company. 17 January 2020, First game of the ICC Under 19 World Cup cricket played in Kimberley. (Pictured is the Bultfontein Mine compound in ...
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UPDATED: 10/12/2021 10 DECEMBER 1880, James Carson murdered by a gang on Parsons Lane. 10 DECEMBER 1899, Besieged Kimberley hears massive bombardment from direction of Magersfontein in afternoon. Pictured is the 4.7in British Naval gun firing on Magersfontein Kop. Another ...
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UPDATED: 11/11/2021 11 NOVEMBER 1888, De Beers Board passes resolution of Rhodes to build Kenilworth village for the white miners. 11 NOVEMBER 1899, First person, a black woman, killed by Boer shelling during the siege. 11 NOVEMBER 1918, Armistice Day. ...
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UPDATED; 03/11/2021 3 NOVEMBER 1899, Kimberley Mine ceases work during the siege. 3 NOVEMBER 1904, Four Black miners die in a mud rush in the Kimberley Mine. 3 NOVEMBER 1917, Cape Corps soldier Henry Hopsel fatally wounds a fellow drinker ...
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29 October 1872, Harry Barnato, elder brother of Barney, stages his first show on the Diamond Fields. 29 October 1888, William Hart accidentally killed in the Kimberley Mine. The lesser known Harry Barnato The less well-known brother of Barney Barnato, ...
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