1870s in Zimbabwe

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)