1870s in Zimbabwe

Events

1870

• The first of Lobengula's royal towns called Bulawayo, is founded in 1870.

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
• Alfred Mulock Bentley, founder of the Rhodesian Stock Exchange