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Timeline of Bulawayo

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

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19th century

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20th century

  • 1902 - Cecil Rhodes was buried at the Matoppo Hills at Malindidzimu{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1904
  • Statue of Cecil Rhodes erected.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • "White" population: 3,840.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1905 - Railway to Victoria Falls and Zambia begins operating.{{sfn|Mlambo|2003}}
  • 1919 - James Cowden becomes mayor.
  • 1926 - Rhodes Matopos National Park established near Bulawayo.
  • 1927 - Bulawayo Technical School established.
  • 1931 - Catholic Mission of Bulawayo established.{{cite web |title=Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Zimbabwe |url= http://www.katolsk.no/organisasjon/verden/chronology/zimbabwe |publisher=Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo |location=Norway |access-date= 13 September 2017 }}
  • 1934 - Bulawayo Club building constructed.
  • 1943 - Bulawayo attains city status.{{sfn|Mlambo|2003}}
  • 1950 - Rainbow Hotel built.
  • 1957 - Bulawayo Thermal Power Station (coal-fired thermal power plant) opens.
  • 1960 - Trade fair begins.[http://www.herald.co.zw/zitf-starts-today/]{{chronology citation needed|date=September 2017}}
  • 1964 - Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe opens.
  • 1970 - National Gallery of Zimbabwe branch opens.
  • 1972 - Bulawayo Railway Museum opens.
  • 1973 - Population: 307,000 (estimate).{{cite book |url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1970_round.htm |title=Demographic Yearbook 1975 |year=1976 |author=United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants |pages=253–279 |quote= Southern Rhodesia }}
  • 1981 - February: 1981 Entumbane uprising.
  • 1983 - Population: 429,000 (estimate).{{cite book |url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1980_round.htm |title=1984 Demographic Yearbook |year=1986 |author=United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants |pages=257–285 }}
  • 1985 - National Railways of Zimbabwe headquarters building constructed.{{cite web |url= https://www.emporis.com/city/100178/bulawayo-zimbabwe/status/all-buildings |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170913183739/https://www.emporis.com/city/100178/bulawayo-zimbabwe/status/all-buildings |url-status= usurped |archive-date= 13 September 2017 |title=Zimbabwe: Bulawayo |work=Emporis.com |publisher=Emporis GmbH |location=Hamburg |access-date= 13 September 2017 }}
  • 1991 - National University of Science and Technology established.
  • 1992 - Population: 621,742.{{cite web |url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2000.htm |work=Demographic Yearbook 2000 |publisher=United Nations Statistics Division |title= Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants }}
  • 1999 - Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway (Beitbridge-Bulawayo) begins operating.
  • 2000 - June: Political activist Patrick Nabanyama of the Movement for Democratic Change kidnapped.{{citation |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/24/zimbabwe.andrewmeldrum |title=Zimbabwe's south becomes a zone of fear |date=23 June 2000 |work=The Guardian |location=UK }}

21st century

  • 2001
  • August: Municipal election postponed by Mugabe administration.{{citation |newspaper=The Economist |location=UK |url=http://www.economist.com/node/381863 |title=An ill wind from the south-west |date=28 September 2000 }}
  • November: Political unrest.{{citation |work=New York Times |title=Political Violence Strikes Zimbabwe's Second Largest City |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/world/political-violence-strikes-zimbabwe-s-second-largest-city.html |date= 17 November 2001 }}
  • Japhet Ndabeni Ncube becomes mayor.
  • 2008 - Patrick Thaba-Moyo becomes mayor.
  • 2012 - Population: 653,337.{{cite web |url= http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2015.htm |work=Demographic Yearbook 2015 |year=2016 |publisher=United Nations Statistics Division |title= Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants }}
  • 2013
  • Joshua Nkomo statue erected.{{citation |url=http://www.herald.co.zw/nkomo-statue-mounted/ |title=Nkomo statue mounted |date=18 December 2013 |work =Herald.co.zw }}
  • Martin Moyo becomes mayor.
  • Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport new terminal opens.

2024: Zoe Ncube is born

See also

References

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Bibliography

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  • {{cite book|author= Henry Morton Stanley |title=Through South Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UNIoAAAAYAAJ|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |location=New York |year= 1898

}} (Includes description of Bulawayo)

  • {{cite book|editor1=Walter H. Wills|editor2=J. Hall, Jr.|title=Bulawayo Up-to-date |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jDgXAAAAYAAJ|publisher=Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. |location=London |year=1899

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  • {{cite book|title= Guide to South Africa |editor1=A. Samler Brown |editor2=G. Gordon Brown |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GYdJAAAAYAAJ|publisher=Sampson Low, Marston & Co. |location=London |year=1906

|chapter=Bulawayo |page=342+

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  • {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Bulawayo |volume= 4 | pages = 771–772 |date=1910 |ref= {{harvid|Britannica|1910}} |short= 1}}
  • {{cite book |title=Bulawayo: a century of development 1894-1994 |editor1=Michael Hamilton |editor2= Mike Ndubiwa |location=Harare |publisher= Argosy Press |isbn=0908309295 |year=1994

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  • 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.
  • {{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History |editor1= Paul Tiyambe Zeleza |editor2= Dickson Eyoh |publisher=Routledge |isbn=0415234794 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qjolgQhpFtoC |year=2003

|chapter= Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

|author= Alois Mlambo

| ref = {{harvid|Mlambo|2003}}

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  • {{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of African History |publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn |isbn=978-1-57958-245-6 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Ftz_gtO-pngC |editor= Kevin Shillington |year= 2005

|chapter= Bulawayo

|author= Jane L. Parpart |author-link=Jane L. Parpart

| ref = {{harvid|Parpart|2005}}

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|issue=2 |pages=161–192 |s2cid=154586516 |doi-access=free }} {{free access}} (Includes information about Bulawayo)

  • {{cite book|author= Terence O. Ranger |title=Bulawayo Burning: The Social History of a Southern African City, 1893-1960|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2mvIIYquwmEC|year=2010|publisher=Boydell & Brewer |location=UK |isbn=978-1-84701-020-9

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External links

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  • {{cite web |url= http://www.africabib.org/query_a.php?ti=Bulawayo |title=(Bulawayo) |work= AfricaBib.org }} (Bibliography)
  • [https://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=Bulawayo+Zimbabwe&rows=96 Items related to Bulawayo], various dates (via Europeana)
  • [http://dp.la/search?page_size=100&q=Bulawayo+Zimbabwe&utf8=✓ Items related to Bulawayo], various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)

Images

File:Southern Rhodesia (1909) (14598319617).jpg|Statue of Rhodes unveiled in 1904

File:Bulawayo, Rhodesia -- 1976.jpg|View of Bulawayo, 1976

File:Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo.jpg|Statue of Nkomo erected in 2013 (photo 2017)

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