1870s in Zimbabwe

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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

Eauropeans start to excavate the late Iron Age's capital city, Great Zimbabwe
The broder 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)

References

↑ Ranger 2010, pp. 14–17

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