Jan Smuts
1870 to 1950
6 documented presences
6 places
Quo Fuit places 6 dated presences for Jan Smuts across 6 places, from 1870 to 1950. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, (baptismal name Jan Christiaan Smuts, 24 May 1870 to 11 September 1950) was a South African statesman, military officer and philosopher.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Jan Smuts was documented, and when
24 May 1870exact date
Malmesbury, Western Capeattested
“Smuts was born on 24 May 1870, at the family farm, Bovenplaats, near Malmesbury, in the Cape Colony.”
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1917year
Londonattested
“Early in 1917, Smuts left Africa and went to London, as he had been invited to join the Imperial War Cabinet and the War Policy Committee by David Lloyd George.”
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June 1921month
Parisattested
“After the death of the former American President Woodrow Wilson, Smuts was quoted as saying that: "Not Wilson, but humanity failed at Paris." While in Britain for an Imperial Conference in June 1921, Smuts went to Ireland and met Éamon d…”
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June 1921month
Irelandattested
“After the death of the former American President Woodrow Wilson, Smuts was quoted as saying that: "Not Wilson, but humanity failed at Paris." While in Britain for an Imperial Conference in June 1921, Smuts went to Ireland and met Éamon d…”
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1939year
South Africaattested
“In 1939, Smuts, then prime minister, wrote an essay for a commemorative work compiled for Gandhi's 70th birthday and returned the sandals with the following message: "I have worn these sandals for many a summer, even though I may feel th…”
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11 September 1950exact date
Pretoriaattested
“He died of a subsequent heart attack on his family farm of Doornkloof, Irene, near Pretoria, on 11 September 1950.”
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Places Jan Smuts is documented in
Ireland1 presence · 1921London1 presence · 1917Paris1 presence · 1921South Africa1 presence · 1939
Malmesbury, Western Cape1 presence · 1870
Pretoria1 presence · 1950
Other places tied to Jan Smuts in the record
In each of these, a source puts Jan Smuts and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Jan Smuts was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1886year
Victoria College, Stellenboschmentioned
“He was admitted to Victoria College, Stellenbosch, in 1886, at the age of sixteen.”
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December 1894month
Middle Templementioned
“Alec Todd, the Master of Christ's College, said in 1970 that "in 500 years of the College's history, of all its members, past and present, three had been truly outstanding: John Milton, Charles Darwin and Jan Smuts." In December 1894, Sm…”
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1895year
University of Cambridgementioned
“During Smuts's undergraduate years at Cambridge University, he produced a manuscript in 1895 in which he analysed the personality of the famous American poet Walt Whitman.”
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31 May 1902exact date
Orange Free Statementioned
“Smuts then took a leading role in the negotiations between the representatives from all of the commandos from the Orange Free State and the South African Republic (15–31 May 1902).”
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1906year
Londonmentioned
“The next time was in 1906, while Smuts was leading a mission about South Africa's future to London before Churchill, then Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies.”
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October 1908month
Durbanmentioned
“To impress upon his compatriots his vision, he called a constitutional convention in Durban, in October 1908.”
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December 1909month
Londonmentioned
“Smuts and Botha took the constitution to London, where it was passed by Parliament and given Royal Assent by King Edward VII in December 1909.”
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1914year
Indiamentioned
“Before Gandhi returned to India in 1914, he presented General Smuts with a pair of sandals (now held by Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History) made by Gandhi himself.”
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1916year
Monsmentioned
“He believed Horace Smith-Dorrien (who had saved the British Army during the retreat from Mons and was the original choice as commander in 1916) would have quickly defeated the Germans.”
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November 1916month
Englandmentioned
“Smuts was not an astute soldier; a brilliant statesman and politician but no soldier." Meinertzhagen wrote these comments in October/November 1916, in the weeks after being relieved by Smuts due to symptoms of depression, and he was inva…”
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1918year
Egyptmentioned
“Early in 1918, Smuts was sent to Egypt to confer with Allenby and William Marshall, and prepare for major efforts in that theatre.”
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24 May 1921exact date
Bulhoekmentioned
“The second was the Bulhoek Massacre of 24 May 1921, when at Bulhoek in the eastern Cape eight hundred South African policemen and soldiers armed with maxim machine guns and two field artillery guns killed 163 and wounded 129 members of a…”
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December 1934month
Royal Institute of International Affairsmentioned
“In December 1934, Smuts told an audience at the Royal Institute of International Affairs that: How can the inferiority complex which is obsessing and, I fear, poisoning the mind, and indeed the very soul of Germany, be removed?”
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1937year
South Africamentioned
“However, Smuts was deputy prime minister when the Hertzog government in 1937 passed the Aliens Act that was aimed at preventing Jewish immigration to South Africa.”
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1939year
1939year
May 1945month
1946year
1948year
24 May 1948exact date
29 May 1950exact date
Documented at the same place, the same year
Marguerite DurasFrance · 1921Man RayFrance · 1921Gabriel LippmannFrance · 1921Natalia GoncharovaFrance · 1921Sonia DelaunayFrance · 1921Edgar MorinFrance · 1921Karol SzymanowskiFrance · 1921Charles FabryFrance · 1921Noe ZhordaniaFrance · 1921E. E. CummingsFrance · 1921
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