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Zimbabwe timeline
c. 1000
A trading centre at Mapungubwe, on the Limpopo, evolves into a state ruled by a king in a
zimbabwe
c. 1250
The kingdom of Great Zimbabwe displaces Mapungubwe as the dominant Shona power in this region of southern Africa
1888
The Ndebele chieftain, Lobengula, grants Rhodes mining rights in what is now Zimbabwe
1890
Cecil Rhodes sends colonists to settle the newly won colony of Rhodesia
1893
Leander Jameson, finding a pretext for war, drives Lobengula out of his kingdom in Rhodesia
1895
The territory south of the Zambezi is given the name Rhodesia, in honour of the man who has colonized it
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