1840 in South Africa

Decades:	1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s;
See also:	List of years in South Africa;

The following lists events that happened during 1840 in South Africa.

Events

The Cape Town Municipality is formed and has a population of 20,016, of which 10,560 are Whites
26 March - The town of Wellington is founded in the Cape Colony
16 October - Potchefstroom, Winburg and Natalia unifies as a single Boer republic

See Years in South Africa for list of References

1840 in Africa
Sovereign states	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
States with limited recognition	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland
Dependencies and other territories	Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla (Spain) Madeira (Portugal) Mayotte / Réunion (France) Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)