Timeline of Bulawayo
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
19th century
- 1830s - Ndebele Mzilikazi Khumalo locates seat of Mthwakazi nation in Bulawayo, in Matabeleland.
- 1893 - Ndebele capital "GuBulawayo" besieged, demolished by British South Africa Company forces during the First Matabele War.
- 1894
- * Bulawayo town established near former settlement by British South Africa Company.
- * Telegraph begins operating.
- * Chronicle newspaper begins publication.
- 1896/97 - Siege of Bulawayo during the Second Matabele War
- 1897
- * Bulawayo becomes a municipality.
- * State House, Bulawayo completed as "Government House".
- * I.G. Hirschler becomes mayor.
- * Railway to South Africa begins operating.
- 1899 - Railway to Salisbury and Mozambique begins operating.
- 1900 - Beira–Bulawayo railway opened.
20th century
- 1902 - Cecil Rhodes was buried at the Matoppo Hills at Malindidzimu
- 1904
- * Statue of Cecil Rhodes erected.
- * "White" population: 3,840.
- 1905 - Railway to Victoria Falls and Zambia begins operating.
- 1919 - James Cowden becomes mayor.
- 1926 - Rhodes Matopos National Park established near Bulawayo.
- 1927 - Bulawayo Technical School established.
- 1931 - Catholic Mission of Bulawayo established.
- 1934 - Bulawayo Club building constructed.
- 1943 - Bulawayo attains city status.
- 1950 - Rainbow Hotel built.
- 1957 - Bulawayo Thermal Power Station opens.
- 1960 - Trade fair begins.
- 1964 - Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe opens.
- 1970 - National Gallery of Zimbabwe branch opens.
- 1972 - Bulawayo Railway Museum opens.
- 1973 - Population: 307,000.
- 1981 - February: 1981 Entumbane uprising.
- 1983 - Population: 429,000.
- 1985 - National Railways of Zimbabwe headquarters building constructed.
- 1991 - National University of Science and Technology established.
- 1992 - Population: 621,742.
- 1999 - Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway begins operating.
- 2000 - June: Political activist Patrick Nabanyama of the Movement for Democratic Change kidnapped.
21st century
- 2001
- * August: Municipal election postponed by Mugabe administration.
- * November: Political unrest.
- * Japhet Ndabeni Ncube becomes mayor.
- 2008 - Patrick Thaba-Moyo becomes mayor.
- 2012 - Population: 653,337.
- 2013
- * Joshua Nkomo statue erected.
- * Martin Moyo becomes mayor.
- * Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport new terminal opens.