For Bengaluru-ians NAMMA BENGALOORU through time line... 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 (Shivajis father) captures City for Adil Shah who gifts it to him · 1640 Shivaji marries Bangalore girl · 1687 Aurangzebs 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. Marks 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 Indias 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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