1870s in Zimbabwe

none March 2023 Events 1870 The first of Lobengula's royal towns called Bulawayo, is founded in 1870 (and will be destroyed in 1881). Terence O. Ranger Bulawayo Burning: The Social History of a Southern African City, 1893-1960 https://books.google.com/books?id=2mvIIYquwmEC 2010 Boydell & Brewer UK 978-1-84701-020-9 14–17 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) See also 1860s in Zimbabwe other events of 1870s 1880s in Zimbabwe Years in Zimbabwe References Category:Decades in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe