Timeline of Mumbai

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{{short description|Historical timeline of Mumbai, India}}
{{Part of History of India}}
The [[History of Mumbai]], can be traced back to 600 BC, when evidences of the first known settlement, Harrappan civilization, here have been discovered.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}}

==up to 18th century==
* 600 BC – First known permanent settlement were the [[Marathi language|Marathi]] speaking [[Koli people|Koli]] & [[Agri caste|Agri]] community.<ref>http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/nfile/1064</ref>
* 300 BC – Part of [[Mauryan]] 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 – City 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 [[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 ''[[Fire temple|Adaran]]'' (in the home of Banaji Limji). Continues to be the oldest continuously-burning [[Zoroastrian]] fire in Mumbai (now in the [[Banaji Limji Agiary]], Fort).
* 1735 – Start of shipbuilding industry (Wadia docks, Duncan docks)
* 1750 – Asia's first [[dry dock]] built by [[Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia|Lovji Wadia]] in Bombay.
* 1777 – First newspaper published in Bombay by Rustom Kersaspjere.

==19th century==
[[File:Situationsplan von Bombay (Mumbai).jpg|right|thumb|[[Mumbai]] in 1888]]
[[File:BOMBAY C 1890.jpg|thumb|Mumbai ca. 1890]]
* 1801 – [[Siddhivinayak Temple, Mumbai|Siddhivinayak temple]] built at [[Prabhadevi]].
* 1803 – Fire.<ref>{{Cite book |publisher = Routledge |isbn = 9781884964046 |title = International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania |date = 1996 |editor=Schellinger and Salkin |location=UK |chapter=mumbai |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vWLRxJEU49EC&pg=PA142 }}</ref>
* 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 Bombay, [[Bombay Samachar|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.
* 16 April 1853 – First railway line in India between Bombay and [[Thane]].
* 1854 – First cotton mill started.
* 1857 – [[University of Mumbai]] 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 (India)|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 Bombay, India.
* 1911 – [[George V of the United Kingdom|King George V]] and [[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]] visit Bombay. [[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]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iesrsv.com/history.htm|title=I.E.S. Raja Shivaji Vidyalaya|website=www.iesrsv.com|access-date=2016-12-12}}</ref>
* 1913 – [[Sydenham College]] established. The First College of Commerce in Asia.
* 12 January 1915 – [[Mahatma Gandhi|Gandhi]] returns to India from South Africa at Bombay.
* 1920 – Half of Bombay [ 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 Bombay to Chinchpokli in Ganesh Festival.
* 22 January 1926 – [[Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College and King Edward Memorial Hospital|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.
* 1 October 1933 – [[Institute of Chemical Technology|UDCT]] established. First institute dedicated to research in Chemical Engineering in India.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ṭikekara |first1=Aruṇa |title=The Cloister's Pale: A Biography of the University of Mumbai |date=2006 |publisher=Popular Prakashan |isbn=978-81-7991-293-5 |page=198 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dz9wl5vvKCAC |access-date=12 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* 1934 – [[Congress Socialist Party]] founded.<ref name="Docherty2006">{{cite book|author1= James C. Docherty |author2= Peter Lamb |title=Historical Dictionary of Socialism |year= 2006 |edition=2nd |publisher=[[Scarecrow Press]] |isbn=978-0-8108-6477-1 |chapter=Chronology |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=JRYjU-L4F7wC&pg=PR21 }}</ref>
* 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 – [[Bombay Explosion (1944)|Mumbai Harbour Explosion]] kills scores of people and hurls debris up to 3 km away.
* 1947 – Progressive Artists' Group founded.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/?period=11&region=ssa#/Key-Events |title=South Asia and the Himalayan Region, 1900 A.D.–present: Key Events |work= Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History |publisher=[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] |location=New York |access-date=26 August 2021 }}</ref>
* 1958 – [[IIT Bombay]] established in [[Powai]].
* 1960 – "[[Flora Fountain]] incident": 105 [[Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti]] demonstrators killed in altercation with the police
* 1 May 1960 – Bombay becomes the capital of newly formed [[Marathi people|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 [[Bombay riots|communal riots]] following the [[Babri Masjid]] destruction.
* 1993 – [[1993 Bombay bombings|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]]. [http://library.thinkquest.org/C0123001/viewer.php?topic=Centres%20of%20Civilization&subtopic=Mumbai%20%20-%20India&lang=]

==21st century==
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[[File:Mumbai 03-2016 82 Dadar Beach view of the SeaLink.jpg|thumb|Bandra-Worli Sea Link]]
{{Main|History of Mumbai during the 21st century}}
* 2003–04
** 27 January – [[January 2003 Mumbai bombing|Bomb goes off in a bus in Ghatkopar killing 2]]
** 13 March – [[March 2003 Mumbai bombing|Bomb goes off in a train in Mulund killing 10]]
** 28 July – [[July 2003 Mumbai bombing|Bomb goes off in a bus in Ghatkopar killing 4]]
** 25 August – [[August 2003 Mumbai bombings|Two bombs go off in cars near the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar, killing 50]]
* 2005 – [[2005 Maharashtra floods|July rains and flooding]] – the worst in 120 years and a death toll of nearly 450.
* 2006
** 11 July – [[2006 Mumbai train bombings|Series of seven bombs go off in trains killing 207 people]]
** [[Google]] office in business.<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060831171142/https://www.google.com/corporate/address.html |archive-date=31 August 2006 |title=Corporate Information: Google Offices |publisher=Google Inc. |url-status=dead |url=https://www.google.com/corporate/address.html }}</ref>
* 2008 – [[2008 Mumbai attacks|More than 10 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks]] kill 164 people.
* 2009 – [[Bandra-Worli Sea Link]] inaugurated.
* 2011 – [[2011 Mumbai bombings|A series of bombings kill 26 people]]
* 2014
** 2014 – [[Snehal Ambekar]] becomes [[Mayor of Mumbai|mayor]]
** 1 February – [[Mumbai Monorail]] inaugurated
** 8 July 2014 – [[Mumbai Metro]] inaugurated
* 2021 -
** 26 March - [[2021 Mumbai hospital fire]]
** 18 July - [[2021 Mumbai landslide]]

==See also==
{{Portal|India}}
* [[List of riots in Mumbai]]
* [[Mayor of Mumbai|List of mayors of Mumbai]]
* [[Years in India]]

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|History of Mumbai}}
*[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]

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