1870s in Zimbabwe
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Ancient history
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White settlement pre-1923
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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
References
- ^ Ranger 2010, pp. 14–17
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