Timeline of Mumbai events explained

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.
• June 19, 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 Bombay, Mumbai Samachar published by Fardunjee Marzban. India's oldest newspaper still being published.
• 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.
• 1899 - Mumbai plague epidemic

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.
• January 1982 - Great Bombay Textile Strike started, by mill workers of Bombay, 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 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.
• 2008 attacks on North Indians in Maharashtra; 19 October 2008 All-India Railway Recruitment Board examination attack

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
• 26 November 2008 - November 2008 Mumbai Attacks

See also

• List of riots in Mumbai

External links

• Timeline of Mumbai
• Blasts hit Mumbai commuter trains