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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | KING |
| 1821 | Ndebele Kingdom | Mzilikazi ka Mthsobana Khumalo | |
| 1868 | 9 september | Jando "Lopengule" ka Mzilikazi Khumalo | |
| 1894 | february | Nyamanda ka Lopengule Khumalo |
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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GENERAL GOVERNOR |
| 1896 | december | UK protectorate of Matabeleland | Albert Henry George Grey, Earl Grey |
| 1897 | 24 july | Sir William Henry Milton | |
| 1914 | 2 november | Sir Francis James Newton | |
| 1914 | 24 december | Sir Francis Drummond Percy Chaplin (I) | |
| 1919 | 15 october | Clarkson Tredgold | |
| 1919 | 14 december | Sir Francis Drummond Percy Chaplin (II) | |
| 1920 | 10 september | Ernest Montagu (I) | |
| 1920 | 10 december | Sir Francis Drummond Percy Chaplin (III) | |
| 1922 | 15 november | Ernest Montagu (II) | |
| 1923 | 10 may | Sir Francis Drummond Percy Chaplin (IV) | |
| 1923 | 21 september | Percy Donald Leslie Flynn |
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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | PRIME MINISTER | GENERAL GOVERNOR |
| 1923 | 1 october | UK colony of Southern Rhodesia | Charles Patrick John Goghlan | Sir John Robert Chancellor |
| 1927 | 2 september | Howard Unwin Moffat | ||
| 1928 | 15 june | Murray Bisset | ||
| 1928 | 24 november | Sir Cecil Hunter Rodwell | ||
| 1933 | 5 july | George Mitchell | ||
| 1933 | 12 september | Sir Godfrey Martin Huggins | ||
| 1934 | 1 may | Sir Alexander Fraser Russell (I) | ||
| 1935 | 8 january | Sir Herbert James Stanley | ||
| 1942 | 8 january | Sir Alexander Fraser Russell (II) | ||
| 1942 | 10 december | Sir Evelyn Baring | ||
| 1944 | 26 october | Sir Robert James Hudson (I) | ||
| 1945 | 20 february | Sir William Eric Campbell Tait | ||
| 1946 | 2 february | Sir Alexander Fraser Russell (III) | ||
| 1946 | 19 july | Sir Robert James Hudson (II) | ||
| 1947 | 14 january | John Noble Kennedy |
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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | PRIME MINISTER | GENERAL GOVERNOR |
| 1953 | 1 august | Federation of Rhodesia and Nyassiland | Godfrey Martin Huggins, Viscount Malvern | John Jestyn, Baron Llewellin of Upton |
| 1956 | 2 november | Sir Roy Welensky | ||
| 1957 | 24 january | Sir Robert Clarkson Tredgold | ||
| 1957 | febriary | William Murphy | ||
| 1957 | 8 october | Simon Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie | ||
| 1963 | may | Sir Humphrey Vicary Gibbs |
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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | PRESIDENT | PRIME MINISTER | GENERAL GOVERNOR |
| 1964 | 1 january | UK Colony | Ian Douglas Smith | Sir Humphrey Vicary Gibbs | |
| 1965 | 11 november | Independent into Commonwealth | queen Elisabeth II | Ian Douglas Smith | Sir Humphrey Vicary Gibbs |
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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | PRESIDENT | PRIME MINISTER |
| 1968 | 11 november | |||
| 1970 | 2 march | Republic of Rhodesia | Clifford Walter Dupont | Ian Douglas Smith |
| 1975 | 31 december | Henry Everard (I) | ||
| 1976 | 14 january | John Wrathall | ||
| 1978 | 31 august | Henry Everard (II) | ||
| 1978 | 1 november | Jack William Pithey | ||
| 1979 | 5 march | Henry Everard (III) |
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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | PRESIDENT | PRIME MINISTER | GENERAL GOVERNOR |
| 1979 | 1 june | Zimbabwe-Rhodesia state | Josiah Zion Gumede | Abel T. Muzorewa | |
| 1979 | 12 december | UK colony | Christopher John Soames, Baron Soames |
| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | PRESIDENT | PRIME MINISTER |
| 1980 | 17 april | Republic | Canaan Banana | Robert Mugabe |
| 1987 | 31 december | Robert Mugabe | - | |
| 2009 | 11 february | Morgan Tsvangirai |