Timeline of Zambia: Difference between revisions

#'''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).

#'''24 October 1964''': Zambia gains its independence from British colonial rule.

#'''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.

#'''1935''': [[Lusaka]] becomes the capital city of [[Zambia]] (then [[Northern Rhodesia]]}