Events
edit1870
edit- The first of Lobengula's royal towns called Bulawayo, is founded in 1870 (and will be destroyed in 1881).[1]
1871
edit- Europeans start to excavate the late Iron Age's capital city, Great Zimbabwe
- The border post Mpandamatenga established close to modern Botswana
1872
edit- Tati Concessions Land in the Matabele kingdom granted to Sir John Swinburne
1876
edit- Zambesi Mission, a Catholic prefecture division is established
Births
edit- 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
editReferences
edit- ^ 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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