Timeline of Harare

The following is a of the history of the city of Harare, Zimbabwe.

Prior to 20th century

• 1890 – Fort Salisbury founded in Mashonaland by British South Africa Company.
• 1891 – Mashonaland Herald and Zambesian Times newspaper begins publication.
• 1896 – Salisbury Polo Club formed.
• 1897
• Harare Township built.
• Salisbury attains municipal status.
• 1899 – Beira-Salisbury railway begins operating.

20th century

• 1902
• Botswana-Salisbury railway begins operating.
• Queen Victoria Memorial Library founded.
• 1915 – Meikles Hotel in business.
• 1923 – Town becomes capital of Southern Rhodesia, a self-governing British colony.
• 1927 – Salisbury Technical School established.
• 1933 – Town House built.
• 1936 – Library of the National Archives founded.
• 1939 – Honorary Consulate of Poland opened.
• 1945 – Railway strike.
• 1946
• Reformed Industrial and Commercial Workers Union established.
• Population: 54,090.
• 1948
• General strike.
• Zimbabwe College of Music established.
• 1950 – Gwebe College of Agriculture established.
• 1951
• Stock exchange established.
• Population: 90,024.
• 1953
• City becomes capital of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
• Helping Hand Club (women's group) formed.
• 1955 – University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and Salisbury City Youth League established.
• 1956
• Salisbury Airport commissioned.
• Bus boycott.
• 1957 – Rhodes National Gallery opens.
• 1959 – Pearl Assurance House built.
• 1960 – Central Film Laboratories in business.
• 1962
• First International Congress of African Culture held in city.
• Queen Victoria Memorial Library rebuilt.
• 1964 – Greenwood Park established.
• 1969 – The Financial Gazette begins publication.

• 1970 – Chapungu Sculpture Park founded.
• 1972
• Zimbabwe National Library and Documentation Service headquartered in city.
• Construction of New Mabvuku begins.
• 1973 - Population: 502,000 urban agglomeration.
• 1975 – Mabvuku High School opens in Mabvuku.
• 1977 – 6 August: Bombing.
• 1978 – Oil storage tanks set on fire by the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army.

1980s–1990s

• 1980 18 April: City becomes part of independent Republic of Zimbabwe.
• 1981
• December: Bombing of ZANU-PF headquarters.
• National Heroes' Acre monument built near city.
• 1982 18 April: City renamed "Harare."
• 1984 – Harare Publishing House established.
• 1985 – Karigamombe Centre built.
• 1986 – September: City hosts Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement.

• 1990
• Sister city relationship established with Cincinnati, US.
• ZANU–PF Building is completed
• 1991 – October: City hosts Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 1991; Harare Declaration issued.
• 1992 - Population: 1,189,103.
• 1995 – September: City hosts 1995 All-Africa Games.
• 1996
• Rainbow City Cinema in business.
• Eastgate built.
• Women Filmmakers of Zimbabwe headquartered in city.
• 1997 – New Reserve Bank tower built.
• 1998
• Weaver Press publishing house established
• Economic protest.
• Zimbabwe International Film Festival begins.
• December: City hosts meeting of World Council of Churches.
• 1999
• Daily News begins publication.
• Zimbabwe Catholic University established.
• Harare International Festival of the Arts begins.
• Media Monitoring Project headquartered in city.
• 2000 – Millennium Towers built.

21st century

2000s

• 2001 – Harare Tribune newspaper begins publication.
• 2002 – Elias Mudzuri becomes mayor.
• 2003
• Water shortage.
• Sekesai Makwavarara becomes acting mayor.
• 2004 – Harare International Airport terminal built (approximate date).
• 2005 – Operation Murambatsvina.
• 2008
• Emmanuel Chiroto elected mayor, succeeded by Muchadeyi Masunda.
• Harare Residents Trust organised.
• Cholera outbreak.
• 2009
• First Floor Gallery Harare in business.
• Population: 1,513,173.

2010s

• 2010
• NewsDay begins publication.
• Zimbabwe Fashion Week begins.
• Joina City tower built.
• 2012 - Population: 1,485,231.
• 2013 - Bernard Gabriel Manyenyeni becomes mayor.
• 2017 - The military of Zimbabwe seize power and place the president under house arrest.

See also

• Harare history
• List of mayors of Harare
• Timeline of Bulawayo

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