Sunday, January 29, 2012

Bangalore - Important Historical dates

    Important Historical Dates
  • BC (-) Stone Age implements, Roman coins & burial grounds unearthed.
  • 850 AD 'Bengalooru' appears on Mauryan empire milestone
  • 1015 Chola Empire takes over City
  • C.1120 Veera Ballala II calls it 'Benda Kalooru' or 'Town of Boiled Beans' (after a poor woman feeds him beans in the forest)
  • 1537 Kempe Gowda I designs City as it exists today. (KG II builds the 4 towers)
  • 1638 Shahaji Bhonsle (Shivaji's father) captures City for Adil Shah who gifts it to him
  • 1640 Shivaji marries Bangalore girl
  • 1687 Aurangzeb's army captures City
  • 1690 Sells it to the Wodeyars for 3 lakhs!
  • 1759 Wodeyar gifts it to Hyder Ali who builds Lal Bagh
  • 1791 Cornwallis defeats Tipu but returns City to him
  • 1799 Tipu dies. City returned to Wodeyar
  • 1800 Bangalore GPO opened
  • 1809 Cantonment established
  • 1812 St. Mark's Cathedral built
  • 1831 British take-over administration
  • 1853 Sunday declared weekly holiday
  • 1859 1st train steams out of City
  • 1864 Sankey builds Cubbon Park
  • 1867 Attara Kacheri built
  • 1887 Bangalore Palace built
  • 1898 The great plague. (Another plague-the 1st telephone rings)
  • 1903 1st motorcar pollutes city
  • 1905 India's 1st electric bulb lit in Bangalore City Market
  • 1909 Indian Institute of Science built
  • 1917 UVCE( University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering ) is established
  • 1940 1st flight Bangalore/Bombay
  • 1948 Deccan Herald launched
  • 1954 Vidhana Soudha built

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