• Source: 1870s in Zimbabwe




Events






= 1870

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




= 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


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


1860s in Zimbabwe
other events of 1870s
1880s in Zimbabwe
Years in Zimbabwe




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• 1870s in Zimbabwe
• Great Zimbabwe
• 1880s in Zimbabwe
• List of years in Zimbabwe
• 1855 in South Africa
• 1895 in South Africa
• 1887 in South Africa
• 1859 in South Africa
• 1860 in South Africa
• White Africans of European ancestry