1840s in Zimbabwe

Dr. David Livingstone, exploring the interior of Africa, arrived at Lake Ngami in present-day Botswana on 3 August 1849.

Births

• Mapondera, militant, is born into the Rozvi Negomo dynasty
• 1848 - Archibald Ross Colquhoun,Resident Commissioner of Mashonaland from June 1890 to September 1891

See also

• 1830s in Zimbabwe
• other events of 1840s
• 1850s in Zimbabwe and
• Years in Zimbabwe