Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (17 September 1819 – 19 May 1901) was the first president of the South African Republic, and also compiled the constitution of the Republic.. After the death of his father, the Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius, in 1853, he was appointed as the Commandant-General of the ZAR (South African Republic) and moved from his farm Kalkheuwel, near …

Pretorius is a common Afrikaans surname.. Recorded in several forms (including Praetor, Praetorius, Pratorius, Pretorius, (German), and in English Preater, Preter and Pretor) [citation needed], Pretorius is a surname of Germanic origins, although the ultimate origin is the Roman word "praetor".This literally meant "leader", but was used in Imperial Rome to describe officials …

Francis William Reitz, Jr. (Swellendam, 5 October 1844 – Cape Town, 27 March 1934) was a South African lawyer, politician, statesman, publicist, and poet who was a member of parliament of the Cape Colony, Chief Justice and fifth State President of the Orange Free State, State Secretary of the South African Republic at the time of the Second Boer War, and the first …

Marthinus Wessel Pretorius: 1. er. Presidente de la República 1863-1864: Willem Cornelis Janse van Rensburg: 2.º. Presidente de la República 1864-1871: Marthinus Wessel Pretorius: 3. er. Presidente de la República 1871-1877: Thomas François Burgers: 4.º. Presidente de la República 1877-1881: Bajo el Imperio británico: 1881-1883

Marthinus Wessel Pretorius · Daniël Jacobus Erasmus · Thomas François Burgers · Driemanschap (Paul Kruger · Marthinus Wessel Pretorius · Petrus Jacobus Joubert) · Paul Kruger · Schalk Willem Burger: Staatssecretarissen: Willem Eduard Bok · Willem Johannes Leyds · Cornelis van Boeschoten · Francis William Reitz

Storia. Il primo insediamento urbano nella zona fu fondato da Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (al quale si deve il nome di "Pretoria") nel 1855.Dal 1860 al 1902 fu capitale dello stato boero indipendente del Transvaal.Il trattato che pose fine alla Guerra anglo-boera (il Trattato di Vereeniging del 1902) fu firmato a Pretoria.. Nel 1910, alla nascita dell'Unione Sudafricana, …

Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, transwalski polityk, prezydent Transwalu i Oranii (ur. 1819) 1903 – Carl Snoilsky, szwedzki poeta (ur. 1841) 1904: Korla Awgust Kocor, łużycki kompozytor, działacz narodowy (ur. 1822) Jamsetji Tata, indyjski potentat odzieżowy, filantrop (ur. 1839) 1905:

Marthinus Wessel Pretorius. Unter Präsident Marthinus Wessel Pretorius wird die Hauptstadt der Südafrikanischen Republik am 1. Mai von Potchefstroom nach Pretoria verlegt, wo zu diesem Zeitpunkt knapp 300 Menschen leben. Im selben Jahr treten die Republiken Lydenburg und Utrecht der Südafrikanischen Republik bei.

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