The modern city of Durban dates from…

The modern city of Durban dates from 1824, when a party of twenty-five men under British Lieutenant F. G. Farewell arrived from the Cape Colony and established a settlement on the northern shore of the Bay of Natal, near today's Farewell Square.

Accompanying Farewell was an adventurer named Henry Francis Fynn, who had been able to befriend the Zulu King Shaka by helping him to recover from a stab wound he suffered in battle.

As a token of Shaka's gratitude, he had granted Fynn some territory.

During a meeting of thirty-five white residents in Fynn's territory on June 23, 1835, it is decided to build a capital town and name it "d'Urban" after Sir Benjamin d'Urban, governor of the Cape Colony.