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. 16 July 2015: Edgar Lungu commutes the death sentences of 332 prisoners to life in prison and condemned the massive overcrowding at the Mukobeko Prison, calling it "an affront to basic human dignity".
2. 20 January 2015: Edgar Lungu is elected as sixth president of the Republic of Zambia at the National Heroes Stadium in Lusaka.
3. February 2014: Nationwide strike after tax hike and public sector wage freeze prohibited salary increases and new hires.
4. 24 December 2013: Edgar Lungu becomes Minister of Defence after Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba resigned from his ministerial post.
5. 2 November 2008: Elijah Mudenda dies at age 81 at Mina Medical Centre in Lusaka.
6. 19 October 2007: Kenneth Kaunda is awarded the 2007 Ubuntu Award.
7. 11 December 2001 Mainza Chona dies at age 71 in South Africa.
8. 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.
9. 27 May 1975: President Kenneth Kaunda names Elijah Mudenda as the Prime Minister after Mainza Chona resigned.
10. 27 June 1973: The new constitution dubbed the Choma Declaration is signed in Choma.
11. 1972: Zamrock music genre comes is started.
12. January 1970: Zambia had acquired majority holding in the Zambian operations of the two major foreign mining interests, the Anglo American Corporation and the Rhodesian Selection Trust (RST). The two became Nchanga Consolidated Copper Mines (NCCM) and Roan Consolidated Mines (RCM).
13. 24 December 1964: Kenneth Kaunda's Chilenje House 394 is achieved as a national monument.
14. 24 October 1964: Zambia gains its independence from British colonial rule.
15. 25 August 1960: Lusaka gains city status.
16. 17 May 1960: The Kariba Dam is opened.
17. 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.
18. 1935: Lusaka becomes the capital city of Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia}
19. 21 January 1930: Mainza Chona is born in Monze.
20. 6 June 1927: Elijah Mudenda is born.
21. 1929: The Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) is founded.
22. 28 April 1924: Kenneth Kaunda is born in Chinsali.
23. 1921: Skull of Broken Hill Man is discovered in Kabwe.

See also

• History of Zambia