Timeline of Bulawayo
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
Prior to 20th century
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Ancient history
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White settlement pre-1923
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- 1893 - Ndebele capital GuBulawayo besieged, demolished by British South Africa Company forces during the First Matabele War.[1]
- 1894
- 1897 - I.G. Hirschler becomes mayor.
20th century
- 1904 - Statue of Cecil Rhodes erected.[1]
- 1919 - James Cowden becomes mayor.
- 1926 - Rhodes Matopos National Park established near Bulawayo.
- 1931 - Catholic Mission of Bulawayo established.[3]
- 1934 - Bulawayo Club building constructed.
- 1950 - Rainbow Hotel built.[4]
- 1960 - Trade fair begins.[2][chronology citation needed]
- 1972 - Bulawayo Railway Museum opens.
- 1973 - Population: 307,000 (estimate).[5]
- 1981 - February: 1981 Entumbane uprising.
- 1983 - Population: 429,000 (estimate).[6]
- 1985 - National Railways of Zimbabwe headquarters building constructed.[4]
- 1992 - Population: 621,742.[7]
- 1999 - Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway (Beitbridge-Bulawayo) begins operating.
- 2000 - June: Political activist Patrick Nabanyama of the Movement for Democratic Change kidnapped.[8]
21st century
- 2001
- August: Municipal election postponed by Mugabe administration.[9]
- November: Political unrest.[10]
- Japhet Ndabeni Ncube becomes mayor.
- 2008 - Patrick Thaba-Moyo becomes mayor.
- 2012 - Population: 653,337.[11]
- 2013
- Martin Moyo becomes mayor.
- Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport new terminal opens.
See also
References
- ^ a b c Parpart 2005.
- ^ "Timelines". Sahistory.org.za. Cape Town, South Africa: South African History Online. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
- ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Zimbabwe". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
- ^ a b "Zimbabwe: Bulawayo". Emporis.com. Hamburg: Emporis GmbH. 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.
- This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.
Bibliography
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- 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 (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
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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.
- Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Bulawayo, Zimbabwe". 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. doi:10.1080/17531050701452390.
(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
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bulawayo.
- "(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
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Statue of Rhodes unveiled in 1904 -
View of Bulawayo, 1976
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