History of Zimbabwe | Events, People, Dates, Maps, & Facts
Rhodesia, c. 1902. Map of Central Africa, showing most of Rhodesia (part of which is now Zimbabwe) from the 10th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, published in 1902. (more) By 1892 about 1,500 settlers from the south had arrived in Rhodesia. The railway reached Bulawayo in 1896 and Victoria Falls in 1904.