Timeline of Mumbai

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Prehistoric

* Paleolithic
* Masol c. 2.6 Ma
* Riwat c. 2.5 Ma
* Madrasian culture c. 1.5 Ma
* Soanian c. 500,000 BCE
* Neolithic, c. 7600 – c. 1000 BCE
* Bhirrana 7570 – 6200 BCE
* Jhusi 7106 BCE
* Lahuradewa 7000 BCE
* Koldihwa 7000 BCE
* Mehrgarh 7000 – 2600 BCE
* South Indian Neolithic 3000 – 1000 BCE

Ancient

* Indus Valley Civilization, c. 3300 – c. 1700 BCE
* Post Indus Valley Period
(Cemetery H Culture), c. 1700 – c. 1500 BCE
* Vedic civilization, c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE
* Kuru kingdom, c. 1200 – c. 500 BCE
* Early Vedic period
* Rise of Śramaṇa movement
* Later Vedic Period
* Spread of Jainism – Parshvanatha
* Spread of Jainism – Mahavira
* Rise of Buddhism

* Kingdom of Magadha
* Brihadratha Dynasty 1700 - 682 BCE
* Haryanka Dynasty 544 – 413 BCE
* Shaishunaga Dynasty 413 – 345 BCE
* Nanda Dynasty, 345 – 322 BCE
* Mahajanapadas, c. 600 – 345 BCE

Classical

* Magadhan Empire
* Maurya Dynasty, 322 – 185 BCE
* Shunga Dynasty, 185 – 73 BCE
* Kanva Dynasty, 73 – 28 BCE
* Sangam period 300 BCE – 400 CE
* Kushan Dynasty, c. 30 – c. 375 CE
* Satavahana Dynasty, c. 228 BCE – c. 224 CE
* Gupta Dynasty, c. 240 – c. 550 CE

Early medieval

* Pallava dynasty, 275 CE - 897 CE
* Chalukya Dynasty, 543 – 753 CE
* Pandya Dynasty, 590 CE - 920 CE
* Harsha's Dynasty, c. 606 CE – c. 647 CE
* Karakota Dynasty, c. 724 – c. 760 CE
* Arab Invasion, c. 738 CE
* Tripartite Struggle, c. 760 – c. 973 CE
* Pratihara dynasty
* Rastrakuta Dynasty
* Pala Dynasty
* Chola Dynasty, c. 848 – c. 1251 CE
* 2nd Chalukya Dynasty, c. 973 – c. 1187 CE

Late medieval

* Delhi Sultanate, 1206 – 1526 CE
* Mamluk Dynasty
* Khalji Dynasty
* Tugluq Dynasty
* Sayyid Dynasty
* Lodhi Dynasty
* Pandyan Empire, 1251 – 1618 CE
* Vijayanagara, 1336 – 1646 CE
* Bengal Sultanate, 1342 – 1576 CE

Early modern

* Mughal Dynasty, 1526 – 1540 CE
* Suri Dynasty, 1538/40 – 1556 CE
* Mughal Dynasty, 1556 – 1857 CE
* Bengal Subah, c. 1576 – c. 1717 CE
* Maratha Empire, c. 1674 – c. 1818 CE
* Company Raj, c. 1757 – c. 1858 CE
* Kingdom of Mysore, c. 1760 – c. 1799 CE
* Sikh Empire, c. 1799 – c. 1849 CE

Modern

* The Great Rebellion, 1857 – 1858 CE
* British Raj, 1858 – 1947 CE
* Independence Movement
* Independent India, 1947 CE – present
* Dominion of India, 1947 – 1950 CE
* Republic of India, 1950 CE – present

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The history of Mumbai can be traced back to 600 BC, with evidence of the first known settlement of the Harrappan civilization discovered in the region.[citation needed]

## Up to 18th century

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* 600 BC – First known permanent settlement were the Marathi speaking Koli & Agri community.[1]
* 300 BC – Part of Maurya Empire.
* 900 – Part of Shilahara.
* 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 – 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 Banaji Limji Agiary, Fort).
* 1735 – Start of shipbuilding industry (Wadia docks, Duncan docks)
* 1750 – Asia's first dry dock built by Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia in Mumbai.
* 1777 – First newspaper published in Mumbai by Rustom Kersaspjere.

## 19th century

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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 MumbaiTimes 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 Bombay branch.
* 1864 – The Mumbai, 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 Mumbai.
* 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 Mumbai by Mr Forster of Crompton Greaves.
* 1899 – Bombay plague epidemic

## 20th century

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* 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 – King George V and 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[3]
* 1913 – Sydenham College established. The First College of Commerce in Asia.
* 12 January 1915 – 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 – 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 – UDCT established. First institute dedicated to research in Chemical Engineering in India.[4]
* 1934 – Congress Socialist Party founded.[5]
* 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.[6]
* 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-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. [1]

## 21st century

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* 2002 – A bomb placed under a seat of an empty bus exploded near the Ghatkopar station, killing 2 people.[7]
* 2003
* 27 January – Bomb goes off in a bus in Ghatkopar killing 1.[8]
* 13 March – Bomb goes off in a train in Mulund killing 10.[9]
* 28 July – Bomb goes off in a bus in Ghatkopar killing 4.[10]
* 25 August – Two bombs go off in cars near the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar, killing 54.[11]
* 2005
* Datta Dalvi became the Mayor of Mumbai
* 26–27 July – Maharashtra floods, the worst in 120 years and a death toll of nearly 450.[12]
* 2006
* 11 July – Series of seven bombs go off in trains killing 207 people
* Google office in business.[13]
* 2008 – More than 10 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks kill 164 people.
* 2009 – Bandra–Worli Sea Link inaugurated.
* 2011 – A series of bombings kill 26 people
* 2014
* September – Snehal Ambekar becomes Mayor of Mumbai.[14]
* 1 February – Mumbai Monorail inaugurated
* 8 July – Mumbai Metro inaugurated
* 2021
* 26 March – 2021 Mumbai hospital fire
* 18 July – 2021 Mumbai landslide
* 2023-24
* The coastal road was inaugurated, connecting Bandra–Worli Sea Link to Marine Lines.
* The Trans Harbour bridge is the longest bridge in India and it will be opened on 12 January, after the prime minister, Narendra Modi, inaugurates the bridge. It connects Mumbai with Navi Mumbai.[15][16]

## See also

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* India portal

* List of riots in Mumbai
* List of mayors of Mumbai
* Years in India

## References

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1. ^ "Marriage Customs of Christian Son Kolis". Archived from the original on 17 November 2021.
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. ^ Ṭikekara, Aruṇa (2006). The Cloister's Pale: A Biography of the University of Mumbai. Popular Prakashan. p. 198\. ISBN 978-81-7991-293-5. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
5. ^ James C. Docherty; Peter Lamb (2006). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Socialism (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6477-1.
6. ^ "South Asia and the Himalayan Region, 1900 A.D.–present: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
7. ^ "Blast outside Ghatkopar station in Mumbai, 2 killed". rediff.com India Limited. 6 December 2002. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
8. ^ Mumbai, Vijay Singh in. "Blast near Vile Parle station in Mumbai". Rediff. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
9. ^ Asthana, N. C.; Nirmal, A. (2009). Urban Terrorism : Myths And Realities. Pointer Publishers. p. 180\. ISBN 9788171325986.
10. ^ Mumbai, Vijay Singh & Syed Firdaus Ashraf in. "Blast in Ghatkopar in Mumbai, 4 killed". Rediff. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
11. ^ "Death for three in 2003 Mumbai bomb blasts case". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 7 August 2009. Archived from the original on 9 August 2009. Retrieved 7 August 2009.
12. ^ "Maharashtra monsoon 'kills 200'". BBC. 25 July 2005. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
13. ^ "Corporate Information: Google Offices". Google Inc. Archived from the original on 31 August 2006.
14. ^ Bhalerao, Sanjana (9 September 2014). "Shiv Sena's Snehal Ambekar elected Mumbai's new mayor". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 20 October 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
15. ^ "Speed limit 100 km/hr, no bikes and autos: All about India's longest sea bridge". India Today. 11 January 2024. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
16. ^ "Atal Setu, India's longest bridge news: PM Modi to inaugurate Mumbai Trans Harbour Link today". www.livemint.com. 12 January 2024. Retrieved 16 August 2024.

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