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=__A Chronology of Key Events in Zimbabwe's History__=

1830-1890s - European hunters, traders and missionaries explore the region from the south. They include Cecil John Rhodes.
==1889 - Rhodes' British South Africa Company (BSA) gains a British mandate to colonise what becomes Southern Rhodesia. Whites settle 1890 - Pioneer column of white settlers arrives from south at site of future capital Harare.==