850 AD 'Bengalooru' appears on Mauryan empire milestone

· 1015 Chola Empire takes over City

· .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. (Kempe Gowda 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 Sultan but returns City to him

· 1799 Tipu Sultan 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.

1898 The first telephone Rings

· 1903 1st motorcar pollutes city

· 1905 India's 1st electric bulb lit in Bangalore City Market

· 1909 Indian Institute of Science built

· 1940 1st flight Bangalore/Bombay

· 1948 Deccan Herald launched

· 1954 Vidhana Soudha built

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