Timeline of Mumbai events

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

up to 18th century

* 600 BC — First known permanent settlement.
* 300 BC — Part of Ashokas 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 Bombay from Charles II
* 1670 — First printing press imported to Bombay by Parsi businessman Bhimji 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 10,000 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 Bombay
* 1777 — First newspaper published in Bombay by Rustom Kersaspjee

19th century

* 1801 - Siddhivinayak temple built at Prabhadevi.
* 1822 — First vernacular language newspaper in Bombay, Mumbai Samachar published by Fardunjee Marzban. India's oldest newspaper still being published.
* 1820 — "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
* 1838 — First edition of Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce launched
* 1845 — Grant Medical College founded.
* 1846 — Mahim Causeway between Salsette and Mahim completed.
* April 16, 1853 — First railway line in India between Bombay and Thane.
* 1854 — First cotton mill started.
* 1857 — University of Bombay established.
* 1858 — The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China opens its Bombay branch.
* 1864 — The Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway (later merged with other railways to form Western Railway) is extended to Bombay.
* 1870 — Bombay Port Trust formed.
* 1872 — Bombay Municipal Corporation founded.
* 1885 — Indian National Congress formed at Gowalia Tank Maidan.
* 1887 — Victoria Jubilee Technological Institute (VJTI) established. First and only institute offering degree in engineering until 1960.
* 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.

20th century

* 1900 — By this year, 45 trains of Western Railway in each direction were carrying over one million passengers annually.
* 1911 — King George V and Queen Mary visit Bombay. Gateway of India is built to commemorate their arrival.
* January 12, 1915 — Gandhi returns to India from South Africa at Mumbai.
* January 22, 1926 — King Edward Memorial Hospital inaugurated.
* July 15, 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.
* October 15, 1932 — J. R. D. Tata flew from Karachi to Bombay 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.
* 1940 — reclamation of land that will become Nariman Point begins.
* August 8, 1942 — Quit India Movement declaration passed at Gowalia Tank Maidan.
* April 14, 1944 — Bombay Harbour Explosion kills scores of people and hurls debris up to 3 km away.
* 1958 — IIT Bombay established in Powai.
* 1960 — "Flora Fountain incident": 105 Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti demonstrators killed in altercation with the police
* May 1, 1960 - Bombay becomes the capital of newly formed Marathi-state Maharashtra.
* 31 March 1964 — Last tram made its journey from Bori Bundar to Dadar.
* 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 to Mumbai. Subsequently University of Bombay renamed to University of Mumbai. [http://library.thinkquest.org/C0123001/viewer.php?topic=Centres%20of%20Civilization&subtopic=Mumbai%20%20-%20India&lang=]

21st century

* July 26—August 1, 2005 — Torrential July rains and flooding - the worst in 120 years - push the death toll to nearly 450. See 2005 Maharashtra floods.

Terrorist Acts

* 12 March 1993 - Series of 13 bombs go off killing 257
* 6 December 2002 - Bomb goes off in a bus in Ghatkopar killing 2
* 27 January 2003 - Bomb goes off on a bicycle in Vile Parle killing 1
* 14 March 2003 - Bomb goes off in a train in Mulund killing 10
* 28 July 2003 - Bomb goes off in a bus in Ghatkopar killing 4
* 25 August 2003 - Two Bombs go off in cars near the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar killing 50
* 11 July 2006 - Series of seven bombs go off in trains killing 207

External links

* [http://www.mumbaibest.com/discovermumbai/sightseeing/history/timeline/1800-1899.asp Timeline of Mumbai]
* [http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/07/11/mumbai.blasts/index.html Blasts hit Mumbai commuter trains]