- 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
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Bangalore - Important Historical dates
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