Lusaka

City · 1905 CE · in Sub-Saharan Africa

Capital of Zambia (1967–today).

Related

• Dodoma (1906 CE): Capital of Tanzania (1996–today).
• Port Vila (c. 1907 CE): Capital of New Hebrides (1907–1980), Vanuatu (1983–today).
• Kigali (1907 CE): Capital of Republic of Rwanda (1963–today).
• Lilongwe (1902 CE): Capital of Malawi (1975–today).
• Mbabane (1902 CE): Capital of Eswatini (1969–today).
• Boma (c. 1908 CE): Capital of Belgian Congo (1908–1960).
• N'Djamena (1900 CE): Capital of Republic of Chad (1961–today).
• Muscat (c. 1900 CE): Capital of Sultanate of Muscat and Oman (1900–1946), Sultanate of Oman (1970–today).
• Nairobi (1899 CE): Capital of Republic of Kenya (1963–today).
• Abidjan (1898 CE): Capital of Republic of Côte d'Ivoire (1961–1983).

Around the same time and place

• Nelson Mandela (1918 CE – 2013 CE): Anti-apartheid leader imprisoned for 27 years who became South Africa's first Black president in 1994 and shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.
• Second Boer War (1899–1902 CE): War between the British Empire and the Boer republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free State; British concentration camps caused the deaths of many Boer and Black African civilians.
• Herero and Nama genocide (1904–1908 CE): Campaign of extermination by German colonial forces in South West Africa (Namibia) that killed tens of thousands of Herero and Nama people; often called the first genocide of the 20th century.
• Livingstone’s crossing of Africa (1853–1856 CE): David Livingstone travelled from the upper Zambezi to Luanda on the Atlantic and then east to Quelimane on the Indian Ocean, sighting Victoria Falls in 1855; the crossing made him famous in Britain.
• Pretoria (1855 CE): Capital of South African Republic (1856–1899), South Africa (1932–today).
• Burton and Speke’s expedition to Lake Tanganyika (1857–1859 CE): Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke travelled inland from Zanzibar along the caravan route and became the first Europeans to reach Lake Tanganyika. On the return Speke went north alone and reached Lake Victoria, which he took to be the source of the Nile.
• Bujumbura (1871 CE): Capital of Republic of Burundi (1963–2019).
• Stanley’s search for Livingstone (1871–1872 CE): Sent by the New York Herald, the journalist Henry Morton Stanley led a caravan from Bagamoyo to Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika, where in November 1871 he found David Livingstone, of whom little had been heard for years.

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