Timeline
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1534-12-23T00:00:00Z
Treaty of Diu signed by Sultan Bahudar Shah with the Portugese after his defeat which gave rights of Bombay to Portugese
1554-01-01T00:00:00Z
Gerson di Carta given Bombay on lease by the Portugese
1662-05-21T00:00:00Z
Dowry treaty between British and Portugese
1665-02-18T00:00:00Z
Transfer of Island from Portugese to the British Crown as per 1662 Treaty
1665-02-18T00:00:00Z
Transfer of Island from Portugese to the British Crown as per 1662 Treaty
1668-03-27T00:00:00Z
Island transfered to East India Company under the Royal Charter
1672-01-01T00:00:00Z
Seat of Governor shifted from Surat to Bombay(exact date not known)
1672-08-08T00:00:00Z
English Laws formaly replace Portuguese laws
1774-01-01T00:00:00Z
First Maratha War(exact date not knwon)
1774-01-10T00:00:00Z
British take over Salsette(exact date not known)
1805-01-01T00:00:00Z
Sion Kurla Embankment initiated by Governor Duncan(exact date not known)
1811-01-01T00:00:00Z
Commencement of Revenue Survey of island under Leut. Hawkins(exact date not known)
1834-03-10T00:00:00Z
Ardeshir Kharsetji Wadia demonstrated use of gas as fuel for domestic lighting
1842-04-20T00:00:00Z
First consignment of Ice landed in Bombay
1853-04-16T00:00:00Z
India’s first railway line started from Bombay to Thane, steam engine
1853-08-04T00:00:00Z
First time use of steam engine for pressing of cotton bales
1854-01-01T00:00:00Z
Bombay’s first cotton mill The Bombay Spinning Mill opened by Cowasji Davar at Tardeo(exact date unknown)
1854-02-02T00:00:00Z
Electric telegraph lines opened between Bombay and Thane
1857-01-01T00:00:00Z
University of Bombay Established (exact date not known)
1857-10-15T00:00:00Z
Mangal Gadre and Syed Hussain publicly blown with guns at Esplande, now Azad Maidain
1858-11-01T00:00:00Z
Queen's Proclamation- Bombay Presidency becomes part of British Crown
1861-04-12T00:00:00Z
Commencement of American Civil War
1865-05-01T00:00:00Z
End of American Civil War
1870-01-01T00:00:00Z
Formation of the Bombay Port Trust(exact date not known)
1875-02-01T00:00:00Z
Bombay Millowners Association formed(exact date not known)
1875-03-25T00:00:00Z
Commission appointed to investigate the conditions of work of factory workers under F F Arbuthnot
1876-01-01T00:00:00Z
Bombay City Land Revenue Act, 1876 enacted(exact date not known)
1879-01-01T00:00:00Z
Bombay Land Revenue Code enacted for Bombay Suburban District(exact date not known)
1880-01-01T00:00:00Z
Khoti Settlement Act enacted(exact date not known)
1881-07-18T00:00:00Z
The First Factory Labour Act passed, fixed 7 years as minimum age of employment
1882-01-01T00:00:00Z
Lord Rippon reforms on Local Self Governance(exact date not known)
1884-01-01T00:00:00Z
Bombay Mill Hands Association formed by NM Lokhande, country’s first TU(exact date not known)
1884-10-23T00:00:00Z
Bombay Mill Hands Association holds meeting at Parel, Bombay’s first labour meet
1919-07-09T00:00:00Z
First General Strike in Bombay Mills, 1,25,000 workers participate, military called in
1885-01-01T00:00:00Z
Ring Spinning introduced in Bombay Mills(exact date not known)
1887-01-01T00:00:00Z
Bombay East Indians Association formed(exact date not known)
1887-01-01T00:00:00Z
Native Share and Stock Brokers Association formed(exact date not known)
1888-01-01T00:00:00Z
Bombay Municipal Corporation Act enacted(exact date not known)
1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
Victoria Jubilee Training Institute (VJTI) set up(exact date not known)
1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
For first time Indian raw Cotton shipped to Japan(exact date not known)
1890-04-24T00:00:00Z
Mass petition to the Viceroy demanding fixed working hours by the inititative of NM Lokhande, for first time
1890-05-10T00:00:00Z
Mill owners submit to workers demand of sunday as weekly off
1891-01-01T00:00:00Z
Factory Act amended, measures for ventilation and sanitation in factories(exact date not known)
1892-01-01T00:00:00Z
New Factory Act passed (exact date not known)
1892-10-01T00:00:00Z
One of the first mill strikes in Bombay
1893-08-11T00:00:00Z
First hindu-muslim riots in the city, eighty people died and 700 injured
1893-01-01T00:00:00Z
Electric lighting introduced in Mills for first time(exact date not known)
1894-01-01T00:00:00Z
Land Acquisition Act passed(exact date not known)
1896-09-01T00:00:00Z
Bubonic Plague outbreaks in the city
1896-07-07T00:00:00Z
First film screened at Watson Hotel
1897-01-01T00:00:00Z
Freir Estate Reclamation(exact date not known)
1897-02-14T00:00:00Z
NM Lokhande died of plague
1897-01-01T00:00:00Z
Plague and famine in City and Presidency
1898-01-01T00:00:00Z
Bombay Improvement Trust (BIT) formed(exact date not known)
1899-06-13T00:00:00Z
First Kutchra train runs from Kurla to Deonar
1899-01-01T00:00:00Z
Dadar Matunga Wadala Sion Town Planning Scheme initiated(exact date not known)
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