Timeline of Mumbai

The History of Mumbai, can be traced back to 600 BC, when evidences of the first known settlement,Harrappan Civilization, here have been discovered.

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Satavahana gateway at Sanchi, 1st century CE

up to 18th century
  • 600 BC – First known permanent settlement were the Marathi speaking Koli & Agri community.[1]
  • 300 BC – Part of Ashoka's Empire.
  • 900 to 1300 – part of Hindu Silhara dynasty.
  • 1343 – Part of the Gujarat Sultanate
  • 1431 – Haji Ali Dargah built.
  • 1508 – Francisco de Almeida sailed into the deep natural harbour.
  • 1534 – Mumbai ceded to the Portuguese.
  • 1661 – Portuguese Princess Catherine of Braganza brings Bom Bahia to King Charles II of England as part of her marriage dowry.
  • 1668/1669 – British East India Company leased the seven islands of Mumbai from Charles II
  • 1670 – First printing press imported to Mumbai by Parsi businessman Bhimjee Parikh
  • 1672 – Consecration of the first Tower of Silence and first Fire temple (Hirji Vachha Agiary, now defunct)
  • 1675 – Population estimated to have risen to 60,000 from 100,000 in 1661.
  • 1675 – The Mumba Devi temple built near the main landing site on the former Bori Bunder creek or inlet, against the north wall of the English Fort Saint George.
  • 1709 – First attested private Parsi Adaran (in the home of Banaji Limji). Continues to be the oldest continuously-burning Zoroastrian fire in Mumbai (now in the Limji Agiary, Fort).
  • 1735 – Start of shipbuilding industry (Wadia docks, Duncan docks)
  • 1750 – Asia's first dry dock built by Lovji Wadia in Mumbai
  • 1777 – First newspaper published in Mumbai by Rustom Kersaspjere

19th century
Mumbai in 1888
Mumbai ca. 1890
  • 1801 – Siddhivinayak temple built at Prabhadevi.
  • 1803 – Fire.[2]
  • 19 June 1810 – HMS Minden floated, first Royal Navy ship built outside the British Isles and from the deck of which the Star Spangled Banner would be composed
  • 1822 – First vernacular language newspaper in Mumbai, Mumbai Samachar published by Fardunjee Marzban. India's oldest newspaper still being published.
  • 1838 – First edition of Mumbai Times and Journal of Commerce launched
  • 1845 – Grant Medical College founded.
  • 1846 – Mahim Causeway between Salsette and Mahim completed.
  • 16 April 1853 – First railway line in India between Mumbai and Thane.
  • 1854 – First cotton mill started.
  • 1857 – University of Mumbai established.
  • 1858 – The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China opens its Mumbai branch.
  • 1864 – The Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway (later merged with other railways to form Western Railway) is extended to Mumbai.
  • 1870 – Mumbai Port Trust formed.
  • 1874 – St. Peters School was set up by S.S.J.E. at Dockyard
  • 1885 – Indian National Congress formed at Gowalia Tank Maidan.
  • 1887 – Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) established. First and only institute offering degree in engineering until 1960.
  • 1888 – Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation founded.
  • 1890 – Robert Harris, 4th Baron Harris arrives to take over as Governor of the Presidency of Bombay.
  • 1893 – Sectarian rioting between Hindus and Muslims.
  • 1896 – Famine followed by break out of bubonic plague. Waldemar Haffkine begins plague research at Grant Medical College.
  • 1897 – Haffkine announces plague vaccine, tests it on himself and on volunteers from Byculla Jail.
  • 1897 – First ever gasoline motor-car in the Indian subcontinent brought to Bombay by Mr Forster of Crompton Greaves.
  • 1899 – Bombay plague epidemic

20th century
  • 1900 – By this year, 45 trains of Western Railway in each direction were carrying over one million passengers annually.
  • 1908 – Franciscan Missionary Brothers, a German Missionary established St Francis D'Assisi High School in Borivali, west suburbs of Mumbai, India.
  • 1911 – King George V and Queen Mary visit Mumbai. Gateway of India is built to commemorate their arrival.
  • 1912 – King George English School,Dadar,Mumbai was established, Now known as Raja Shivaji Vidyasankul, Dadar, Mumbai[3]
  • 1913 – Sydenham College established. The First College of Commerce in Asia.
  • 12 January 1915 – Gandhi returns to India from South Africa at Mumbai.
  • 1920 – Half of Mumbai [ Arthur road (Chinchpokli West)to Kalachauki (cotton green station), sewri station- Bharatmata (Lalbaug) ] united in Chinchpokli to celebrate Ganesh Festival. People came from all over Mumbai to Chinchpokli in Ganesh Festival.
  • 22 January 1926 – King Edward Memorial Hospital inaugurated.
  • 15 July 1926 – First motorised bus ran between Afghan Church and Crawford Market.
  • 1928 – The first electric train runs between Churchgate and Borivali.
  • 1930 – Mumbai Cricket Association established.
  • 15 October 1932 – J. R. D. Tata flew from Karachi to Mumbai via Ahmedabad landing on a grass strip at Juhu paving the way for civil aviation in India.
  • 1934 – UDCT established. First institute dedicated to research in Chemical Engineering in India.
  • 1934 – Congress Socialist Party founded.[4]
  • 1940 – reclamation of land that will become Nariman Point begins.
  • 8 August 1942 – Quit India Movement declaration passed at Gowalia Tank Maidan.
  • 14 April 1944 – Mumbai Harbour Explosion kills scores of people and hurls debris up to 3 km away.
  • 1947 – Progressive Artists' Group founded.[5]
  • 1958 – IIT Bombay established in Powai.
  • 1960 – "Flora Fountain incident": 105 Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti demonstrators killed in altercation with the police
  • 1 May 1960 – Mumbai becomes the capital of newly formed Marathi-state Maharashtra.
  • 31 March 1964 – Last tram made its journey from Bori Bundar to Dadar.
  • 1982 January – Great Bombay Textile Strike started, by mill workers of Mumbai, under trade union leader Dutta Samant.
  • December 1992 – January 1993 – Over 2000 people killed in Hindu-Muslim communal riots following the Babri Masjid destruction.
  • 1993 – Serial bomb blasts across Mumbai, masterminded by underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, kill 300 and injure hundreds more.
  • 1995 – Bombay renamed Mumbai. Subsequently, University of Bombay renamed to University of Mumbai.

21st century
Bandra-Worli Sea Link
Main article: History of Mumbai during the 21st century
  • 2003–04
    • 27 January – Bomb goes off in a bus in Ghatkopar killing 2
    • 27 January – Bomb goes off on a bicycle in Vile Parle killing 1
    • 13 March – Bomb goes off in a train in Mulund killing 10
    • 28 July – Bomb goes off in a bus in Ghatkopar killing 4
    • 25 August – Two Bombs go off in cars near the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar killing 50
  • 2005 – Torrential July rains and flooding – the worst in 120 years – push the death toll to nearly 450. See 2005 Maharashtra floods.
  • 2006
    • 11 July – Series of seven bombs go off in trains killing 207
    • Google office in business.[6]
  • 2008 – November 2008 Mumbai Attacks more than 10 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai, killing 164
  • 2009 – Bandra-Worli Sea Link inaugurated.
  • 2011 – Series of bombs go off killing 26
  • 2014
    • 2014 – Snehal Ambekar becomes mayor.
    • 1 February – Mumbai Monorail inaugurated
    • 8 July 2014 – Mumbai Metro inaugurated

See also

References
  1. http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/nfile/1064
  2. Schellinger and Salkin, ed. (1996). "mumbai". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania. UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781884964046.
  3. "I.E.S. Raja Shivaji Vidyalaya". www.iesrsv.com. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  4. James C. Docherty; Peter Lamb (2006). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Socialism (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6477-1.
  5. "South Asia and the Himalayan Region, 1900 A.D.–present: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved October 2014. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  6. "Corporate Information: Google Offices". Google Inc. Archived from the original on 31 August 2006.

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