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Independence
History of Zimbabwe
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| | 1965 | Smith, Ian Douglas | |
| 11th Nov Harare Makes a Unilateral Declaration of Independence |
| 1966 | Smith, Ian Douglas | |
| Salisbury An announcement rejects the terms offerred on board the HMS Tiger by Harold Wilson |
| Gibraltar On HMS Tiger Wilson offers Smith a deferment of majority rule for a decade |
| 1970 | Smith, Ian Douglas | |
| 2nd Mar Harare Rhodes ia breaks away from Britain & the Commonwealth to become a Republic |
| 1976 | Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| The Patriotic Front (PF) is originally formed in 1976 as a political and military alliance between ZAPU and ZANU during the war against white minority rule in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodes ia) |
| 1976 | Smith, Ian Douglas | |
| 19th Sep Smith accepts the principle of majority rule |
| 26th Sep Britain agrees a conference to establish transitional government in Rhodes ia |
| 4th Nov Geneva Delegates at the Geneva Conference cannot agree a date for Rhodes ian independence |
| 1977 | Smith, Ian Douglas | |
| 24th Jan Harare Ian Smith rejects the British proposals for a Rhodes ian settlement |
| 1979 | Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| The OAU recognizes the Patriotic Front as representitive of Zimbabwe |
| 1979 | Muzorewa, Abel | |
| 12th Dec The illegal declaration of inependence made in 1965 is terminatd |
| 1980 | Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| 18th April Independence is internationally recognised |
| 18th April Zimbabwe becomes independent as the Republic of Zimbabwe, member of the Commonwealth |
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