1870s in Zimbabwe

Ancient history

Leopard's Kopje	c. 650 – c. 1075
Mapungubwe Kingdom	c. 1220 – c. 1300
Zimbabwe Kingdom	c. 1300 – c. 1450
Mutapa Kingdom	c. 1430–1760
Butua Kingdom	c. 1450–1683

White settlement pre-1923

Rozvi Empire	c. 1660–1866
Mthwakazi	1840–1893
Rudd Concession	1888
BSA Company rule	1890–1923
First Matabele War	1893–1894
Second Matabele War	1896–1897
World War I involvement	1914–1918
Colony of Southern Rhodesia	1923–1965
World War II involvement	1939–1945
Malayan Emergency involvement	1948–1960
Federation with Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland	1953–1963
Rhodesian Bush War	1964–1979
Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI)	1965
Rhodesia	1965–1979
Zimbabwe-Rhodesia	June–December 1979
Lancaster House Agreement	December 1979
British Dependency	1979–1980
Zimbabwe	1980–present
Gukurahundi	1982–1987
Second Congo War	1998–2003
Coup d'état	2017

Events

1870

The first of Lobengula's royal towns called Bulawayo, is founded in 1870 (and will be destroyed in 1881).^[1]

1871

Europeans start to excavate the late Iron Age's capital city, Great Zimbabwe
The border post Mpandamatenga established close to modern Botswana

1872

Tati Concessions Land in the Matabele kingdom granted to Sir John Swinburne

1876

Zambesi Mission, a Catholic prefecture division is established

Births

Wardlaw Brown Thomson, rugby union international born in Matabeleland
Fraser Russell, 3 time governor of Southern Rhodesia (dies 1952)
Alfred Mulock Bentley, founder of the Rhodesian Stock Exchange (dies 1952)

See also

References

^ Terence O. Ranger (2010). Bulawayo Burning: The Social History of a Southern African City, 1893-1960. UK: Boydell & Brewer. pp. 14–17. ISBN 978-1-84701-020-9.

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