Timeline of Mumbai events

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[edit] 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 — East India Company takes over Bombay
1670 — First printing press imported to Bombay by Parsi businessman Bhimji Parikh
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.
1708 — The first agiary is built (Banaji Limji agiary)
1733 — City gets another agiary (Manekji Sett agiary)
1735 — Start of ship-building industry.
1777 — First newspaper published in Bombay by Rustomji.

[edit] 19th century

1801 - Siddhivinayak temple built at Prabhadevi.
1822 — First vernacular language newspaper in Bombay, Mumbai Samachar published by Fardoonjee. India's oldest newspaper still being published.
1838 — First edition of Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce launched
1845 — Grant Medical College founded.
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.

[edit] 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.
August 8, 1942 — Quit India Movement declaration passed at Gowalia Tank Maidan.
April 14, 1944 — Massive explosion rocks Bombay Harbour killing scores of people, and debris falling more than 3 km away.
1958 — IIT Bombay established in Powai.
1960 - Martyrdom of 105 Marathi people for creation of Maharashtra state.
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. [1]

[edit] 21st century

August 25, 2003 — Two bombings by Islamist terrorists, allegedly connected to the Pakistani Lashkar-e-Toiba, kill 48 and injure 150.
2004 — The fourth World Social Forum held in Mumbai, from 16–21 January.
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.
July 11, 2006 — At least seven bombs exploded on trains in Mumbai, killing at least 207. See 11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings.