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1870s in Zimbabwe
Summary
Events
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1870
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The first of
Lobengula
's royal towns called Bulawayo, is founded in 1870 (and will be destroyed in 1881).
[1]
1871
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Europeans start to excavate the late Iron Age's capital city,
Great Zimbabwe
The border post
Mpandamatenga
established close to modern Botswana
1872
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Tati Concessions Land
in the
Matabele
kingdom granted to Sir John Swinburne
1876
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Zambesi Mission
, a
Catholic
prefecture
division is established
Births
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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
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1860s in Zimbabwe
other events of 1870s
1880s in Zimbabwe
Years in Zimbabwe
References
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^
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
.