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1693 Job Charnock passes away.

1698 East India Co. buys three villages (Sutanuti, Kolikata and Gobindapur) from the local landlord Sabarna Chowdhury.

1699 East India Company starts developing Calcutta as a Presidency city.

1707 Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb dies.

1717 The Mughal emperor Farrukh-siyar grants the East India Company the freedom of trade in return for a yearly payment of 3,000 rupees.

1727 The city corporation is established and Hallwell becomes the first mayor Calcutta.

1756 Siraj-ud-daulla attacks Calcutta and conquers it. The infamous Black Hole incident takes placet.

1757 23rd June, the British East India Company defeats Siraj-id-daulla at the Battle of Plassey .

1765 Robert Clive annexes Bengal, Bihar and Orissa from Badsha Alam II with an agreement of paying excises.

1757 The first currency bill is printed in the Calcutta mint.

1770 The Infamous famine strikes Bengal.

1772 Calcutta becomes the capital of British India as the first Governor General, Warren Hastings, transfers all important offices to the city from Murshidabad.

1779 James Hicky establishes a printing press and publishes the first news paper, "The Bengal Gazzette".

1775 Nandakumar, a local landlord, gets hung in a false allegation.

1784 The Asiatic Society is established.

1804 The Governor House, now called the Raj Bhavan, is built.

1813 The Town Hall is built.

1817 The Hindu College now called the Presidency College is established.

1818 First Bengali Magazine, "Digdarshan", is published from Sreerampur.

1828 The Sahid Minar which was formerly called the Octorloney Monument is built.

1829 Rammohan Roy gets 'satidaho' (a Hindu rule) banned by British General Bentinck.

1857 The University of Calcutta is established.

1861 Birth of Rabindranath Tagore.

1863 Birth of Swami Vivekananda.

1875 The Indian Museum is built.

1873 The first horse drawn tram car appears in the city.

1875 The Indian Museum is built.

1873 The first horse drawn tram car appears in the city.

1883 Surendra Nath Banerjee calls for a National convention.

1886 The Second convention of the Indian National Congress is held at Calcutta.

1893 The Indian Football Association is established.

1896 First motor car appears on the city's street.

1902 First Electric tram car runs from Esplanade to Kidderepore.

1905 Lord Curzon attempts the Partition of Bengal.

1911 The capital of India is shifted to Delhi from Calcutta.

1911 Mohanbagan lifts the IFA Shield final and creates a national sensation.

1913 Rabindranath Tagore receives the Nobel Prize in literature.

1921 King Edward VIII inaugurates the Victoria Memorial.

1922 The first issue of Ananda Bazar Patrika appears as an eveninger on March 13.

1924 Chittaranjan Das gets elected as the first Indian mayor of Calcutta.

1929 Agnes Goinxha Bejaxhiu, fondly called Mother Teresa, comes to Calcutta and joins the Bengal Loreto Mission.

1939 The World War II hits Calcutta.

1941 Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore passes away.

1941 Subhash Chandra Bose escapes from house arrest.

1943 A famine strikes Calcutta. Thousands perish.

1946 Communal riots kill thousands of people in and around the city.

1947 India gains independence.Dr. Prafulla Chandra Ghosh becomes the first Chief Minister of West Bengal.

1952 The National Library is moved from Esplanade to Alipore.

1967 The Naxalite Movement hits Calcutta.

1962 India-China war affects Calcutta.

1971 The India-Pakistan war on freedom of Bangladesh affects the city.

1975 First TV transmission starts in the city from August 9th.

1977 Left Front led by CPI (M) Party win the state election and come to power.

1979 Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1984 Metro Railways, the first underground railway in India, starts from Tollygunge to Esplanade.

1984 First color TV transmission starts in Calcutta.

1989 France's highest civilian award, Legion d'Honour is conferred upon Satyajit Ray by President F. Mitterrand in Calcutta.

1992 Satyajit Ray, film director, receives the prestigious "Life Time Achievement" Oscar award and "Bharat Ratna" just before his demise.

1995 First cellular phone service starts in the city.

1997 Mother Teresa passes away in Calcutta

1998 Amartya Sen (grew up in Shantiniketan and studied at Calcutta) receives the Nobel Prize in Ecomonics.

2001 Calcutta was officially renamed as 'Kolkata' from 1st Januray.