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 (approximate date).
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 reconstructed.
1943 - Bulawayo attains city status.
1950 - Rainbow Hotel built.
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).
1981 - February: 1981 Entumbane uprising.
1983 - Population: 429,000 (estimate).
1985 - National Railways of Zimbabwe headquarters building constructed.
1991 - National University of Science and Technology established.
1992 - Population: 621,742.
1999 - Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway (Beitbridge-Bulawayo) 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.

2024: Zoe Ncube is born

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.
↑ 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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
↑ 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.{{cite book}}: 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

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.
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.

External links

"(Bulawayo)". AfricaBib.org. (Bibliography)
Items related to Bulawayo, various dates (via Europeana)
Items related to Bulawayo, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)

Images

Statue of Rhodes unveiled in 1904
View of Bulawayo, 1976
Statue of Nkomo erected in 2013 (photo 2017)

[FOOTNOTEMlambo2003-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 Mlambo 2003.

[FOOTNOTEParpart2005-2] 1 2 3 Parpart 2005.

[SAHO-3] "Timelines". Sahistory.org.za. Cape Town, South Africa: South African History Online. Retrieved 13 September 2017.

[FOOTNOTEBritannica1910-4] 1 2 3 4 5 6 Britannica 1910.

[5] "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Zimbabwe". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 13 September 2017.

[Emporis-6] 1 2 "Zimbabwe: Bulawayo". Emporis.com. Hamburg: Emporis GmbH. Archived from the original on 13 September 2017. Retrieved 13 September 2017.

[7] 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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[8] 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[9] "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2000. United Nations Statistics Division.

[10] "Zimbabwe's south becomes a zone of fear", The Guardian, UK, 23 June 2000

[11] "An ill wind from the south-west", The Economist, UK, 28 September 2000

[12] "Political Violence Strikes Zimbabwe's Second Largest City", New York Times, 17 November 2001

[13] "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.

[14] "Nkomo statue mounted", Herald.co.zw, 18 December 2013

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Timeline of Bulawayo

19th century

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21st century

See also

References

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