1870s in Zimbabwe
# 1870s in Zimbabwe

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History of Zimbabwe :

| Leopard's Kopje | c. 900 – c. 1075 |
| - | - |
| Mapungubwe Kingdom | c. 1075 – c. 1220 |
| Zimbabwe Kingdom | c. 1220 – c. 1450 |
| Butua Kingdom | c. 1450–1683 |
| Mutapa Kingdom | c. 1450–1760 |
| Rozvi Empire | c. 1684–1834 |
| Mthwakazi | 1823-1894 |
| Rudd Concession | 1888 |
| BSA Company rule | 1890–1923 |
| First Matabele War | 1893–1894 |
| Second Matabele War | 1896–1897 |
| World War I involvement | 1914–1918 |
| Colony of Southern Rhodesia | 1923–1965 |
| World War II involvement | 1939–1945 |
| Malayan Emergency involvement | 1948–1960 |
| Federation with Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland | 1953–1963 |
| Rhodesian Bush War | 1964–1979 |
| Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) | 1965 |
| Rhodesia | 1965–1979 |
| Zimbabwe-Rhodesia | June–December 1979 |
| Lancaster House Agreement | December 1979 |
| British Dependency | 1979–1980 |
| Zimbabwe | 1980–present |
| Gukurahundi | 1982–1987 |
| Second Congo War | 1998–2003 |
| Coup d'état | 2017 |

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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).

### 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

### 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)
