1870s in Zimbabwe

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Ancient history Leopard's Kopje c. 900–c. 1075 Mapungubwe Kingdom c. 1075–c. 1220 Zimbabwe Kingdom c. 1220–c. 1450 Butua Kingdom c. 1450–1683 Mutapa Kingdom c. 1450–1760
White settlement pre-1923 Rozvi Empire c. 1684–1834 Mthwakazi 1823-1894 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 1923–1980 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 under UDI 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
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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

1873[]

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1874[]

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1875[]

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1876[]

• Zambesi Mission, a Catholic prefecture division is established

1877[]

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1878[]

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1879[]

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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[]

• other events of 1870s
• 1880s in Zimbabwe
• Years in Zimbabwe

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