KOLKATA HISTORY IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

• 2008 15th April, 2008 marked the launch of ILoveKolkata.in
• 2007 A silent rally of 1 lakh of Kolkata’s intellectuals against lawlessness in Nandigram took place in November
• 2007 Nandigram violence started by CPI(M) in March
• 2007 Leela Majumdar, a famed Bengali children’s writer passed away
• 2006 Kolkata West International City project, one of the largest foreign direct investments in township projects in India, unveiled by Buddhadeb Bhattacharya
• 2006 Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport is connected to the Kolkata Suburban Railway system, becoming the first airport in India to be accessible by mass rapid transport system
• 2006 INS Kolkata launched (the largest and most lethal multi-role destroyer of the Indian Navy, named after Kolkata)
• 2006 – Kolkata Leather Factory Fire
• 2006 – Announcement of Tata Motors’ Singur project
• 2005 The Park Street flyover is inaugurated
• 2003 The AJC Road flyover is opened to the public
• 2002 The Gariahat flyover is inaugurated.
• 2001 Calcutta is officially renamed as 'Kolkata' from 1st January.
• 1998 Amartya Sen receives the Nobel Prize in Economics.
• 1997 Mother Teresa passes away in Calcutta
• 1995 First cellular phone service starts in the city.
• 1992 Satyajit Ray, receives the prestigious "Life Time Achievement" Oscar award and "Bharat Ratna" just before his demise.
• 1992 The Vidyasagar Setu is inaugurated
• 1989 France's highest civilian award, Legion d'Honour is conferred upon Satyajit Ray by President F. Mitterrand in Calcutta.
• 1984 First colour TV transmission starts in Calcutta.
• 1984 Metro Railways, the first underground railway in India, starts from Tollygunge to Esplanade.
• 1984 India's first woman pilot, Sushma Mukhopadhyay, passes away.
• 1982 The first print of The Telegraph appears.
• 1980 Legendary actor Uttam Kumar passes away at the Belle Vue Nursing Home.
• 1979 Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1977 Left Front led by CPI (M) Party wins the state election and comes to power.
• 1976 The first Calcutta Book Fair is organised by the Publisher's and Bookseller's Guild.
• 1975 First TV transmission starts in the city from August 9th.
• 1975 The Netaji Indoor Stadium is inaugurated by Siddhartha Shankar Ray.
• 1971 The India-Pakistan War on freedom of Bangladesh affects the city.
• 1967 The Naxalite Movement hits Calcutta.
• 1967 The first ever non Congress government led by the leader of the Left Front, Ajoy Mukherjee, comes to power in the state.
• 1962 India-China war affects Calcutta.
• 1962 Dr. Bidhan Chandra Ray passes away.
• 1962 The Birla Planetarium is opened in Calcutta.
• 1961 Queen Elizabeth visits Calcutta.
• 1959 The Birla Industrial Musuem is built.
• 1955 Satyajit Ray's "Pather Panchali" is released.
• 1954 Bohurupee stages Rabindranath Tagore's Raktakarabi at the New Empire for the first time.
• 1952 The National Library is moved from Esplanade to Alipore.
• 1947 India gains independence. Dr. Prafulla Chandra Ghosh becomes the first Chief Minister of West Bengal.
• 1946 Communal riots kill thousands of people in and around the city.
• 1943 The Howrah Bridge is built.
• 1943 A famine strikes Bengal and there is a major influx of people from the villages to Calcutta.

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• 1941 Subhash Chandra Bose escapes from house arrest.
• 1941 Rabindranath Tagore passes away.
• 1939 World War II hits Calcutta.
• 1929 Agnes Goinxha Bejaxhiu, later to be called Mother Teresa, comes to Calcutta and joins the Bengal Loreto Mission.
• 1924 Chittaranjan Das gets elected as the first Indian mayor of Calcutta.
• 1922 The first issue of Ananda Bazar Patrika as an eveninger appears on March 13.
• 1921 King Edward VIII inaugurates the Victoria Memorial.
• 1913 Rabindranath Tagore receives the Nobel Prize in literature.
• 1911 Mohun Bagan lifts the IFA Shield final and creates a national sensation.
• 1911 The Partition of Bengal is repealed.
• 1911 The capital of India is shifted to Delhi from Calcutta.
• 1907 The Calcutta Club is established.
• 1905 Lord Curzon attempts the Partition of Bengal.
• 1903 Swami Vivekananda passes away.
• 1902 First Electric tram car runs from Esplanade to Kidderepore.
• 1896 First motor car appears on the city's street.
• 1893 The Indian Football Association is established.
• 1889 The Mohun Bagan Athletic Club is formed.
• 1886 The Second convention of the Indian National Congress is held at Calcutta.

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• 1883 Surendra Nath Banerjee calls for a National convention.
• 1879 The Bethune College is established.
• 1878 The Vernacular Press Act is passed.
• 1875 The Indian Museum is built.
• 1873 The first horse drawn tram car appears in the city.
• 1868 The first issue of Amrita Bazar Patrika appears.
• 1867 Kali Prasanna Sinha's translation of the Mahabharata is printed.
• 1863 Birth of Swami Vivekananda.
• 1861 Birth of Rabindranath Tagore.
• 1860 Dinabondhu Mitra's Neel Darpan is published.
• 1857 The University of Calcutta is established.
• 1856 The Hindu Widow Re-marriage Act is passed.
• 1855 The first issue of Vidyasagar's first part of "Borno Parichay" is published.
• 1855 The Hindu College becomes Presidency College.
• 1854 The first train in Eastern India steams out of Howrah station.
• 1853 The first issue of "The Hindoo Patriot" appears.
• 1851 Calcutta gets a telegraph line.
• 1849 The Bethune School is established.
• 1840 India's first hotel, The Great Eastern Hotel, is built.
• 1836 The first dissection of the human body in India is done by Dr. Madhusudhan Gupta.
• 1835 The Medical College is established.
• 1835 The Imperial Library, present day National Library is built to commemorate Metcalfe and his decision to emancipate the press
• 1829 "Satidaho" is banned by General Bentinck.
• 1828 The Sahid Minar which was formerly called the Octorloney Monument is built.
• 1827 The Bengal Club is founded.
• 1818 First Bengali Magazine, "Digdarshan", is published from Sreerampur.

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• 1817 The Hindu College, now called Presidency College is established.
• 1813 The Town Hall is built.
• 1804 The Governor House, now called the Raj Bhavan, is built.
• 1801 "Protapadityo Charitro" written by Ram Ram Bose, becomes the first book written by a Bengali to get published.
• 1794 Sir William Jones passes away.
• 1792 The Calcutta Cricket Club is established.
• 1784 The Asiatic Society is established.
• 1779 James Hicky establishes a printing press and publishes the first news paper, "The Bengal Gazzette".
• 1778 The first Bengali book, "A Grammar Of The Bengali Language", written by Halhead is published.
• 1775 Nandakumar, a local landlord, gets hung in a false allegation.
• 1772 Calcutta becomes the capital of British India as the first Governor General, Warren Hastings, transfers all important offices to the city from Murshidabad.
• 1770 The Infamous famine strikes Bengal.
• 1765 Robert Clive receives the Diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa from Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II to collect the revenues of these three areas.
• 1757 The first currency bill is printed in the Calcutta mint.
• 1757 23rd June, the English East India Company defeats Siraj-Ud-Daulah at the Battle of Plassey.
• 1756 Siraj-ud-Daulah attacks Calcutta and conquers it. The infamous Black Hole incident allegedly takes places.
• 1727 The city corporation is established and Hallwell becomes the first mayor of Calcutta.
• 1710 Officials of the East India Company begin to refer to Fort William in Calcutta.
• 1698 East India Company buys three villages (Sutanuti, Kolikata and Gobindapur) from the local landlord Sabarna Chowdhury.
• 1693 Job Charnock passes away.
• 1690 Job Charnock, a factor of the East India Company flees from Hooghly and settles in Calcutta.

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