Events

1870

* The first of

Lobengula Lobengula Khumalo (c. 1845 – presumed January 1894) was the second and last official king of the Northern Ndebele people (historically called Matabele in English). Both names in the Ndebele language mean "the men of the long shields", a refere ...

's royal towns called Bulawayo, is founded in 1870 (and will be destroyed in 1881).

1871

* Europeans start to excavate the late Iron Age's capital city,

Great Zimbabwe Great Zimbabwe is a medieval city in the south-eastern hills of Zimbabwe near Lake Mutirikwi and the town of Masvingo. It is thought to have been the capital of a great kingdom during the country's Late Iron Age about which little is known. Con ...

* The border post

Mpandamatenga Mpandamatenga is a border post and settlement in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe, adjacent to the Pandamatenga area in Botswana. It is located within Matetsi Safari Area. It can be reached by road from Hwange town and Hwange National Park Hwan ...

established close to modern Botswana

1872

Tati Concessions Land The Tati Concession was a land and mining concession created in the western borderlands of the Matabele Kingdom. The concession was originally granted by the Matabele King, Lobengula, son of Mzilikazi, to Sir John Swinburne in exchange for gol ...

in the Matabele kingdom granted to Sir John Swinburne

1876

* Zambesi Mission, a

Catholic The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

prefecture A prefecture (from the Latin ''Praefectura'') is an administrative jurisdiction traditionally governed by an appointed prefect. This can be a regional or local government subdivision in various countries, or a subdivision in certain international ...

division is established

Births

Wardlaw Brown Thomson W.B. Thomson was a rugby union international who represented England national rugby union team, England from 1892 to 1895. Early life W.B. Thomson was born in 1871, in Matabeleland, then deemed part of South Africa but in what would later bec ...

, rugby union international born in

Matabeleland Matabeleland is a region located in southwestern Zimbabwe that is divided into three provinces: Matabeleland North, Bulawayo, and Matabeleland South. These provinces are in the west and south-west of Zimbabwe, between the Limpopo and Zambezi r ...

Fraser Russell Sir Alexander Fraser Russell, (21 October 1876 – 28 March 1952), publicly known as Sir Fraser Russell, was three times acting Governor of Southern Rhodesia as well as its long-serving Chief Justice. Born at St Andrew's Church, Somerset Road ...

, 3 time

governor of Southern Rhodesia The Governor of Southern Rhodesia was the representative of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, British monarch in the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia from 1923 to 1980. The Governor was appointed by The Crown and acted as the local h ...

(dies

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...

) *

Alfred Mulock Bentley Alfred Mulock Bentley (1878–1956) was an Irish-born financier who founded the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, Rhodesian Stock Exchange in Bulawayo in 1946. He served in the Boer War from 1899-1902. Alfred was born on 30 May 1878 in Dublin, Ireland ...

, founder of the Rhodesian Stock Exchange (dies

)

References

Decades in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...

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