title: 1870s in Zimbabwe
text: # 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)
  