Timeline of Bulawayo
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- 1830s - Ndebele Mzilikazi Khumalo locates seat of Mthwakazi nation in Bulawayo, in Matabeleland (approximate date). [1]
- 1893 - Ndebele capital "GuBulawayo" besieged, demolished by British South Africa Company forces during the First Matabele War . [2]
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1894
- Bulawayo town established near former settlement by British South Africa Company . [2]
- Telegraph begins operating. [2]
- Chronicle newspaper begins publication. [3]
- 1896/97 - Siege of Bulawayo during the Second Matabele War [4]
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1897
- Bulawayo becomes a municipality. [1]
- State House, Bulawayo completed as "Government House". [4]
- I.G. Hirschler becomes mayor.
- Railway to South Africa begins operating. [1]
- 1899 - Railway to Salisbury and Mozambique begins operating. [1]
- 1900 - Beira–Bulawayo railway opened. [4]
20th century
- 1902 - Cecil Rhodes was buried at the Matoppo Hills at Malindidzimu [4]
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1904
- Statue of Cecil Rhodes erected. [4]
- "White" population: 3,840. [4]
- 1905 - Railway to Victoria Falls and Zambia begins operating. [1]
- 1919 - James Cowden becomes mayor.
- 1926 - Rhodes Matopos National Park established near Bulawayo.
- 1927 - Bulawayo Technical School established.
- 1931 - Catholic Mission of Bulawayo established. [5]
- 1934 - Bulawayo Club building constructed.
- 1943 - Bulawayo attains city status. [1]
- 1950 - Rainbow Hotel built. [6]
- 1957 - Bulawayo Thermal Power Station (coal-fired thermal power plant) opens.
- 1960 - Trade fair begins. [ chronology citation needed ]
- 1964 - Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe opens.
- 1970 - National Gallery of Zimbabwe branch opens.
- 1972 - Bulawayo Railway Museum opens.
- 1973 - Population: 307,000 (estimate). [7]
- 1981 - February: 1981 Entumbane uprising .
- 1983 - Population: 429,000 (estimate). [8]
- 1985 - National Railways of Zimbabwe headquarters building constructed. [6]
- 1991 - National University of Science and Technology established.
- 1992 - Population: 621,742. [9]
- 1999 - Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway ( Beitbridge -Bulawayo) begins operating.
- 2000 - June: Political activist Patrick Nabanyama of the Movement for Democratic Change kidnapped. [10]
21st century
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2001
- August: Municipal election postponed by Mugabe administration. [11]
- November: Political unrest. [12]
- Japhet Ndabeni Ncube becomes mayor.
- 2008 - Patrick Thaba-Moyo becomes mayor.
- 2012 - Population: 653,337. [13]
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2013
- Joshua Nkomo statue erected. [14]
- Martin Moyo becomes mayor.
- Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport new terminal opens.
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Mlambo 2003 .
- 1 2 3 Parpart 2005 .
- ↑ "Timelines" . Sahistory.org.za . Cape Town , South Africa: South African History Online . Retrieved 13 September 2017 .
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Britannica 1910 .
- ↑ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Zimbabwe" . Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo . Retrieved 13 September 2017 .
- 1 2 "Zimbabwe: Bulawayo" . Emporis.com . Hamburg: Emporis GmbH. Archived from the original on 13 September 2017 . Retrieved 13 September 2017 .
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↑
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants".
Demographic Yearbook 1975
. New York. pp.
253–279.
Southern Rhodesia
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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
, Statistical Office (1986). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants".
1984 Demographic Yearbook
. New York. pp.
257–285.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link ) - ↑ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 2000 . United Nations Statistics Division .
- ↑ "Zimbabwe's south becomes a zone of fear" , The Guardian , UK, 23 June 2000
- ↑ "An ill wind from the south-west" , The Economist , UK, 28 September 2000
- ↑ "Political Violence Strikes Zimbabwe's Second Largest City" , New York Times , 17 November 2001
- ↑ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 2015 . United Nations Statistics Division . 2016.
- ↑ "Nkomo statue mounted" , Herald.co.zw , 18 December 2013
- This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia .
Bibliography
- Henry Morton Stanley (1898). Through South Africa . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. (Includes description of Bulawayo)
- Walter H. Wills; J. Hall, Jr., eds. (1899). Bulawayo Up-to-date . London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.
- A. Samler Brown; G. Gordon Brown, eds. (1906). "Bulawayo". Guide to South Africa . London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. p. 342+.
- "Bulawayo" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 4 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 771–772.
- Michael Hamilton; Mike Ndubiwa, eds. (1994). Bulawayo: a century of development 1894-1994 . Harare: Argosy Press. ISBN 0908309295 .
- Miriam R. Grant. Difficult Debut: Social and Economic Identities of Urban Youth in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Canadian Journal of African Studies, Vol. 37, No. 2/3, 2003.
- Alois Mlambo (2003). "Bulawayo, Zimbabwe". In Paul Tiyambe Zeleza ; Dickson Eyoh (eds.). Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History . Routledge. ISBN 0415234794 .
- Jane L. Parpart (2005). "Bulawayo". In Kevin Shillington (ed.). Encyclopedia of African History . Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-57958-245-6 .
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Terence O. Ranger
(2007).
"City Versus State in Zimbabwe: Colonial Antecedents of the Current Crisis"
.
Journal of Eastern African Studies
.
1
(2): 161–192.
doi
:
10.1080/17531050701452390
.
S2CID
154586516
.
(Includes information about Bulawayo)
- Terence O. Ranger (2010). Bulawayo Burning: The Social History of a Southern African City, 1893-1960 . UK: Boydell & Brewer . ISBN 978-1-84701-020-9 .
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Images
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Statue of Rhodes unveiled in 1904
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View of Bulawayo, 1976
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Statue of Nkomo erected in 2013 (photo 2017)
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