Timeline of Zambia

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This page contains a timeline of some of the key events that have happened in Zambian history.

By towns

• Lusaka

All events

1. 20 January 2015: Edgar Lungu is elected as sixth president of the Republic of Zambia.
2. February 2014: Nationwide strike after tax hike and public sector wage freeze prohibited salary increases and new hires.
3. 2 November 2008: Elijah Mudenda dies at age 81 at Mina Medical Centre in Lusaka.
4. 11 December 2001 Mainza Chona dies at age 71 in South Africa.
5. 27 April 1993: The Zambia national football team perishes in the 1993 air crash disaster in Gabon as the team was flying to the FIFA World Cup Qualifier against Senegal in Dakar. The crash left all on board dead.
6. 27 May 1975: President Kenneth Kaunda names Elijah Mudenda as the Prime Minister after Mainza Chona resigned.
7. 1972: Zamrock music genre comes is started.
8. 24 October 1964: Zambia gains its independence from British colonial rule.
9. October 1959: United National Independence Party (UNIP) is formed as a successor to the Zambian African National Congress (ZANC), which had been banned earlier in the year.
10. 1935: Lusaka becomes the capital city of Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia}
11. 21 January 1930: Mainza Chona is born in Monze.
12. 6 June 1927: Elijah Mudenda is born.
13. 1929: The Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) is founded.
14. 1921: Skull of Broken Hill Man is discovered in Kabwe.

See also

• History of Zambia