Zimbabwe History : Chronology

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I. Timeline of Zimbabwe

Before 500: the Khoisan are the earliest known inhabitants of the country.

Around 500: arrival of the Bantu Gokomere ancestors of Shona.

1420: Founding of Monomotapa Empire by King Mwene Mutapa. Great Zimbabwe civilization declines irreversibly.

1480: foundation of the kingdom of the Shona Torwa direct successor of Great Zimbabwe.

Early sixteenth century arrival of the Portuguese Rhodesian plateau that invest in the Zambezi Valley.

1690: The Portuguese were finally expelled by the troops of Monomatapa.

1854: Explorer David Livingstone reached Victoria Falls.

1970: Proclamation of the Republic of Rhodesia (unrecognized).

1978: internal agreements between Rhodesian government and moderate black nationalist movements for the establishment and a new meeting a multiracial government.

1979: creation of ephemera State of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. Reinstatement in the United Kingdom. Agreements paving the Lancaster House Independence of Zimbabwe and a redistribution of land after 10 years.

1980: Independence of Southern Rhodesia was renamed Zimbabwe, a member of the Commonwealth. Former guerrilla leader Robert Mugabe is the new Prime Minister.

1980-1988: "Civil War" between the two black nationalist movements ZANU (Shona) and ZAPU (Matabele and Ndebele).

1987: Robert Mugabe becomes Zimbabwe's president.

1990: accentuation of Authoritarian regime.

2000: first expropriations of white-owned farm. Mugabe is disallowed during A referendum on constitutional reform.

2002: Robert Mugabe wins the presidential elections during A poll whose Honesty is questioned.

2003: severe agrarian crisis and following the policy Mugabe's expropriation of white farmers.

2004: Zimbabwe withdrew from the Commonwealth.

2005: Robert Mugabe's party, ZANU, won the legislative elections amid violence and electoral fraud against a divided and weakened MDC. Between 120,000 and 1.5 million Of slum dwellers Harare strongholds of Opposition were expelled in late spring.

2006: Inflation exceeds 1,000%, the Population exodus to neighboring countries Accelerates.

Source : 2008