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Parel

Treaty of Diu signed by Sultan Bahudar Shah with the Portugese after his defeat which gave rights of Bombay to Portugese

Gerson di Carta given Bombay on lease by the Portugese

Dowry treaty between British and Portugese

Transfer of Island from Portugese to the British Crown as per 1662 Treaty

Transfer of Island from Portugese to the British Crown as per 1662 Treaty

Island transfered to East India Company under the Royal Charter

Seat of Governor shifted from Surat to Bombay(exact date not known)

English Laws formaly replace Portuguese laws

First Maratha War(exact date not knwon)

British take over Salsette(exact date not known)

Sion Kurla Embankment initiated by Governor Duncan(exact date not known)

Commencement of Revenue Survey of island under Leut. Hawkins(exact date not known)

First Steamer leaves from Bombay Port named Hugh Lindsay to Suez(exact date not known)

Ardeshir Kharsetji Wadia demonstrated use of gas as fuel for domestic lighting

First consignment of Ice landed in Bombay

India’s first railway line started from Bombay to Thane, steam engine

First time use of steam engine for pressing of cotton bales

Bombay’s first cotton mill The Bombay Spinning Mill opened by Cowasji Davar at Tardeo(exact date unknown)

Electric telegraph lines opened between Bombay and Thane

University of Bombay Established (exact date not known)

Mangal Gadre and Syed Hussain publicly blown with guns at Esplande, now Azad Maidain

Queen's Proclamation- Bombay Presidency becomes part of British Crown

Commencement of American Civil War

End of American Civil War

Formation of the Bombay Port Trust(exact date not known)

Bombay Millowners Association formed(exact date not known)

Commission appointed to investigate the conditions of work of factory workers under F F Arbuthnot

Bombay City Land Revenue Act, 1876 enacted(exact date not known)

Bombay Land Revenue Code enacted for Bombay Suburban District(exact date not known)

Khoti Settlement Act enacted(exact date not known)

The First Factory Labour Act passed, fixed 7 years as minimum age of employment

Lord Rippon reforms on Local Self Governance(exact date not known)

Bombay Mill Hands Association formed by NM Lokhande, country’s first TU(exact date not known)

Bombay Mill Hands Association holds meeting at Parel, Bombay’s first labour meet

First General Strike in Bombay Mills, 1,25,000 workers participate, military called in

Ring Spinning introduced in Bombay Mills(exact date not known)

Bombay East Indians Association formed(exact date not known)

Native Share and Stock Brokers Association formed(exact date not known)

Bombay Municipal Corporation Act enacted(exact date not known)

Victoria Jubilee Training Institute (VJTI) set up(exact date not known)

For first time Indian raw Cotton shipped to Japan(exact date not known)

Mass petition to the Viceroy demanding fixed working hours by the inititative of NM Lokhande, for first time

Mill owners submit to workers demand of sunday as weekly off

Factory Act amended, measures for ventilation and sanitation in factories(exact date not known)

New Factory Act passed (exact date not known)

One of the first mill strikes in Bombay

First hindu-muslim riots in the city, eighty people died and 700 injured

Electric lighting introduced in Mills for first time(exact date not known)

Land Acquisition Act passed(exact date not known)

Bubonic Plague outbreaks in the city

First film screened at Watson Hotel

Freir Estate Reclamation(exact date not known)

NM Lokhande died of plague

Plague and famine in City and Presidency

Bombay Improvement Trust (BIT) formed(exact date not known)

First Kutchra train runs from Kurla to Deonar

Dadar Matunga Wadala Sion Town Planning Scheme initiated(exact date not known)