The following lists events that happened during 1959 in the Colony of Southern Rhodesia. Prime Minister: Humphrey Gibbs (starting 28 December) Kariba...

Southern Rhodesia was a landlocked, self-governing British Crown colony in Southern Africa, established in 1923 and consisting of British South Africa...

Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, also known as the Central African Federation (CAF), was a colonial federation that consisted of three southern African...

history of Southern Rhodesia is considered to be a time period from the British government's establishment of the government of Southern Rhodesia on 1 October...

of Southern Rhodesia was a blue ensign, later changed to a sky-blue ensign, with the coat of arms of Southern Rhodesia on it. The flag was in use in Southern...

The Southern Rhodesian Liberal Party was a political party in Southern Rhodesia, founded in 1943 by Jacob Smit (1881–1959), the former United Party (UP)...

Rhodesia (/roʊˈdiːʒə/, /roʊˈdiːʃə/), was a self-governing British Crown colony in southern Africa. Until 1964, the territory was known as Southern Rhodesia...

officially named this land Rhodesia in 1895, and ran it until the early 1920s. The area south of the Zambezi became Southern Rhodesia, while that to the north...

Federal Party, which had operated at the federal level, and the Southern Rhodesian United Rhodesia Party. However, after conservative elements gained control...

The Southern Rhodesia African National Congress (SRANC) was a political party active between 1957–1959 in Southern Rhodesia (now modern-day Zimbabwe)...

Northern Rhodesia was a British protectorate in Southern Africa, now the independent country of Zambia. It was formed in 1911 by amalgamating the two...

of Southern Rhodesia, and in 1980 it became modern day Zimbabwe. Southern Rhodesia had been self-governing since achieving responsible government in 1923...

The Governor of Southern Rhodesia was the representative of the British monarch in the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia from 1923 to 1980. The...

Southern Rhodesia, then a self-governing colony of the United Kingdom that was located in the now-independent Zimbabwe, entered World War II along with...

company rule in the 1890s. These became the armed forces of the British self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia on its formation in 1923, then part...

(1899–1966) was a Southern Rhodesian lawyer. He was Solicitor-General of Southern Rhodesia from 1944 to 1949, Attorney-General of Southern Rhodesia from 1949...

Today. 6.4 (1959): 2 Sibanda, Eliakim M. "The Zimbabwe African People's Union 1961–87: A Political History of Insurgency in Southern Rhodesia." 1st ed....

Rhodesia on 11 November 1965, announcing that Rhodesia (previously Southern Rhodesia) a British territory in southern Africa that had governed itself since 1923...

colony of Southern Rhodesia, it was the air arm of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland between 1953 and 31 December 1963; of Southern Rhodesia once again...

In August 1914, the United Kingdom declared war on the German Empire at the start of World War I. The settler society in Southern Rhodesia, then administered...

The history of Rhodesia from 1965 to 1979 covers Rhodesia's time as a state unrecognised by the international community following the predominantly white...

The High Court of Southern Rhodesia was a Southern Rhodesian court of record. It was established in 1899 and ceased to exist in 1980 on the establishment...

Miss Rhodesia was the national beauty pageant of Rhodesia and its antecedents. It debuted in Miss World in 1959, but was not allowed to participate after...

serving one term before standing down in 1954. In 1959, Queen Elizabeth II appointed Gibbs as Governor of Southern Rhodesia and appointed him a Knight Commander...

Rhodesia National Party (RNP) was a political party in Rhodesia and was the successor and right wing of the United Federal Party (UFP). The Rhodesia National...

Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and Southern Rhodesia. The CAP was established by Garfield Todd in 1959. Led by John Moffat in Northern Rhodesia where it...

the British Royal Artillery in North Africa before first visiting Southern Rhodesia in 1947. He returned a year later, started a ranch and emigrated full-time...

years. The white population of Southern Rhodesia, or Rhodesia as it was known from 1965, reached a peak of about 300,000 in 1975–76, representing around...

Service Regiment until Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980. During the Malayan Emergency (1951–1953), a group of men from Southern Rhodesia volunteered to go...

federal elections, winning just eight of the 59 seats. In the 1959 general elections in Northern Rhodesia the party ran on a campaign of splitting the Federation...