Company Rhodesia

Company Rhodesia was a colony in Zambezi and Zimbabwe Plateau (Central and Southern Africa) that lasted from 1890 to 1923 CE, about 33 years. Its people spoke Germanic languages (Gothic, Frankish, English, German, Dutch, Norse).

Cecil Rhodes' British South Africa Company sent its Pioneer Column to Mashonaland in 1890, crushed the Ndebele and Shona risings of 1896 to 1897, and ruled both Rhodesias under royal charter.

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Facts

Dates

1890 to 1923 CE

Duration

33 years

Type

Colony

Region

Zambezi and Zimbabwe Plateau, Central and Southern Africa

Language family

Germanic

Capital

Salisbury

Came from

• Ndebele Kingdom (Mthwakazi) 1823 to 1894 CE

Became

• Southern Rhodesia 1923 to 1965 CE
• Northern Rhodesia 1924 to 1964 CE

Events in Central and Southern Africa during its time

• 1896 Rinderpest sweeps southern Africa
• 1899 Second Boer War begins
• 1904 Herero and Nama genocide
• 1905 Maji Maji rebellion

Neighbours in Central and Southern Africa

• Kingdom of Kongo c. 1390 to 1914 CE
• Zulu Kingdom 1816 to 1897 CE
• Congo Free State 1885 to 1908 CE
• Kingdom of Buganda c. 1300 to 1966 CE
• Bunyoro-Kitara c. 1400 to 1899 CE
• Portuguese Mozambique 1505 to 1975 CE
• Portuguese Angola 1575 to 1975 CE
• Sultanate of Zanzibar 1856 to 1964 CE
• British Cape Colony 1806 to 1910 CE
• Merina Kingdom of Madagascar 1817 to 1897 CE

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

• Ethiopian Empire (Solomonic dynasty) 1270 to 1974 CE, North and West Africa
• Ottoman Empire 1299 to 1922 CE, Europe
• Ottoman Empire 1299 to 1922 CE, Middle East
• Portuguese Empire 1415 to 1999 CE, Europe
• Qing dynasty 1636 to 1912 CE, East Asia
• United States 1776 CE to the present, North America
• United Kingdom 1801 CE to the present, Europe
• Haiti 1804 CE to the present, Mesoamerica and Caribbean
• Russian Empire 1721 to 1917 CE, Europe
• Dutch East Indies 1800 to 1949 CE, Southeast Asia

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