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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Prior to 19th century

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Modern East Bengal 1947 – 1955 CE     Partition of Bengal (1947) 1947 CE     East Bengali refugees 1947 CE     Bengali Language Movement 1948 – 1956 CE East Pakistan 1955 – 1971 CE     1964 East Pakistan riots 1964 CE     Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 1965 CE     Six Point Movement 1966 CE     East Pakistan Uprising 1969 CE     Pakistani general election 1970 CE     Non-cooperation 1971 CE Bangladesh Liberation War 1971 CE     Independence Declaration 1971 CE     Provisional Government 1971 – 1972 CE     Bangladesh Genocide 1971 CE     Surrender of Pakistan 1971 CE
Contemporary Bangladesh famine 1974 CE Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League 1975 CE Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman 1975 CE Jail Killing Day 1975 CE Military rule 1975 – 1990 CE Military coups in Bangladesh 1975 - 2011 CE Chittagong Hill Tracts conflict 1977 - 1997 CE Mass Uprising 1990 CE Transition to democracy 1991 – 2008 CE Caretaker government of Bangladesh 1996 CE Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord 1997 CE Bangladeshi political crisis 2006–2008 CE Hasina era 2009–2024 CE Vision 2021 and Digital Bangladesh 2008 CE Bangladesh Rifles revolt 2009 CE Shapla Square protests 2013 CE Bangladesh quota reform movement 2013 CE International Crimes Tribunal 2009 CE 2015 Bangladeshi political crisis 2015 CE 2018 Bangladesh road-safety protests 2018 CE 2018 Bangladesh quota reform movement 2018 CE 2021 Bangladesh Communal Violence 2021 CE Smart Bangladesh Bangladesh protests (2022–2024) 2022- 2024 CE Student–People's uprising 2024 CE Interim Government era 2024–present CE Yunus ministry
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• 8th century CE – Dhaka part of Pala Empire.
• 1095 – Senas in power.
• 1457 – Binat Bibi Mosque constructed.
• 1459 – Gate built.
• 1580s – Portuguese merchants open the first European trading post in Dhaka.
• 1610 – City renamed Jahangirnagar; becomes capital of Bengal; Mughal Islam Khan in power.
• 1639 – Capital relocated from Dhaka to Rajmahal.
• 1640 – Mughal Eidgah mosque built.
• 1642 – Hussaini Dalan (mosque) built.
• 1645 – Bara Katra (caravansary) built.
• 1646 – Navaratna temple built (approximate date).
• 1649 – Lalbagh Fort mosque built.
• 1659 – Capital relocated to Dhaka from Rajmahal.
• 1660 – Pagla bridge built on Dacca-Narayangaj road (approximate date).
• 1682 – 25 October: William Hedges, the first Agent and Governor of East India Company in the Bay of Bengal, arrived Dhaka.
• 1663 – Choto Katra (caravansary) built.
• 1668 – English Factory built.
• 1676 – Chowk Bazaar Shai Mosque built.
• 1677 – Holy Rosary Church built by Portuguese.
• 1678 – Lalbagh palace construction begins.
• 1679 – Shahbaz Khan Mosque and Khan Mohammad Mridha Mosque built.
• 1696
  • Mosque of Haji Kahjeh Shahabag built in Ramne (approximate date).
  • Jayakali temple and Siva temple built in Thatari Bazar (approximate date).
• 1704 – Murshid Quli Khan residence relocates from Dhaka to Murshidabad.
• 1717 – Khan Muhammad Ali Khan becomes deputy governor.
• 1723 – Itisam Khan becomes deputy governor.
• 1728 – Mirza Lutfullah becomes deputy governor.
• 1756 – Jasarat Khan becomes deputy governor.
• 1765
  • British East India Company in power.
  • Population: 450,000 (estimate).
• 1781 – Armenian Church built.
• 1793 – Laxmi Narayan Mandir (temple) built.
• 1800 – Population: 200,000 (estimate).

19th century

• 1815
  • Catholic church built.
  • Lunatic Asylum founded.
• 1819 – St. Thomas Church built.
• 1825 – Population: 150,000 (approximate).
• 1830
  • Iron suspension bridge constructed across Dullye Creek.
  • Gurdwara Nanak Shahi built.
  • Population: 66,989.
• 1834 – Ghaziuddin Haider becomes deputy governor.
• 1835 – Dhaka Collegiate School established.
• 1840 – Population bottoms out at 50,000.
• 1848 – Pogose School established.
• 1850 – Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of Eastern Bengal established.
• 1857 – Uprising of sepoys.
• 1858
  • City becomes part of British Raj.
  • Mitford Hospital established.
• 1864 – 1 August: Dacca Municipality established.
• 1866 – Langar Khana (almshouse) founded.
• 1872 – Population: 69,212.
• 1874 – Madrasa established.
• 1875 – Medical school established.
• 1876 – Dhaka Survey School established.
• 1878
  • Water-works in operation.
  • Eden Girls' College established.
• 1880 – Northbrook Hall built.
• 1881 – Population: 79,076.
• 1882 – St Gregory's School founded.
• 1883 – Jagannth College founded. (Now Jagannath University)
• 1885 – Narayanganj-Dhaka railway constructed.
• 1886 – Mymensingh-Dhaka railway opens.
• 1888
  • April: Tornado.
  • Ahsan Manzil (Pink Palace) rebuilt.
• 1897 – 12 June: Earthquake.

20th century

1900s–1960s

• 1902 – April: Tornado.
• 1904 – Curzon Hall built.
• 1905 – City becomes capital of newly formed East Bengal and Assam province.
• 1906 – December: All India Muhammadan Educational Conference held.
• 1909 – Baldha Garden laid out.
• 1911 – Dhaka Club organized.
• 1918 – Influenza outbreak.
• 1921 – University of Dhaka established.
• 1946 – Dhaka Medical College established.
• 1947 – City becomes capital of East Bengal, a province of newly independent Pakistan.
• 1949 – All Pakistan Women's Association East Pakistan Branch organized.
• 1951
  • Habib Productions theatre troupe active.
  • Area of city: 85 square kilometers.
  • Population: 411,279.
• 1952 – Asiatic Society organized.
• 1953 – Holy Family Hospital built.
• 1954
  • Dhaka Stock Exchange incorporated.
  • Dacca Stadium and New Market built.
• 1955
  • City becomes capital of East Pakistan.
  • Bangla Academy established.
• 1956
  • Drama Circle active.
  • RAJUK Bhaban built.
• 1959 – Alliance Française de Dhaka founded.
• 1960 – Islamia Eye Hospital and Cholera Research Hospital founded.
• 1961 – Tejgaon College established.
• 1964 – Bangabhaban reconstructed.
• 1965 – Institute of Postgraduate Medicine and Research and Jinnah College founded.
• 1967 – Officers' Club established.
• 1968
  • Protests against Ayub Khan regime.
  • Baitul Mukarram (mosque) built.

21st century

• 2001
  • BRAC University established.
  • Area of city: 1,530 square kilometers.
• 2002
  • Sadeque Hossain Khoka becomes mayor.
  • China Bangladesh Friendship Center built.
• 2004 – Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novo Theatre and Bashundhara City (shopping mall) open.
• 2005
  • Jagannath College transformed into Jagannath University
  • Concord Grand built.
• 2008 – Population: 7,000,940.
• 2011 – Hay Festival begins.
• 2012
  • April: Demonstration.
  • Dhaka Gladiators cricket team formed.
  • City Centre (building) constructed.
  • City designated a Capital of Islamic Culture.
• 2013
  • Protests in Shahbag.
  • 2013 Savar building collapse.
• 2014 – Air pollution in Dhaka reaches annual mean of 90 PM2.5 and 158 PM10, much higher than recommended.
• 2016 – 1 July: Gulshan attack.

See also

• History of Dhaka
• Dhaka District
• Timeline of Bangladeshi history
• List of cities by population density

Notes

References

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2. ^ Grove 2009.
3. ^ van Schendel 2009, p. xviii.
4. ^ Taylor 1840.
5. ^ Government of Bengal 1896.
6. ^ Cite error: The named reference rahman2010 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
7. S M Mahfuzur Rahman (2012), "Pagla Bridge", in Sirajul Islam and Ahmed A. Jamal (ed.), Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.), Asiatic Society of Bangladesh
8. Romance 1906.
9. ^ Hunter 1885.
10. ^ Sirajul Islam; Ahmed A. Jamal, eds. (2012). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (2nd ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
11. ^ Siddiqui 2010.
12. ^ Gazetteer of India 1908.
13. Seely 1825.
14. ^ Hunter 1875.
15. ^ Chambers 1901.
16. ^ van Schendel 2009, p. xix.
17. "Dhaka Town". Dhakatown.net. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
18. Britannica 1910.
19. Bosworth 2007.
20. van Schendel 2009, p. xx.
21. ^ Kabir Chowdhury (2001), "Bangladesh", in Don Rubin; et al. (eds.), World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Asia/Pacific, Routledge, ISBN 9780415260879
22. "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
23. van Schendel 2009, p. xxi.
24. "Mayor's Corner". Dhaka South City Corporation. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
25. "Statistical Pocket Book, 2008" (PDF). Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 February 2013. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
26. "Hay Festival Dhaka Is Back Again". Global Voices. 7 November 2012.
27. Encyclopædia Britannica Book of the Year. 2013. ISBN 978-1-62513-103-4.
28. "Capitals of Islamic Culture". Morocco: Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
29. "A history of cities in 50 buildings", The Guardian, UK, 2015
30. World Health Organization (2016), Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database, Geneva{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

• Charles D'Oyly; John Landseer (1814). Antiquities of Dacca. London. OCLC 27939924.
• Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Dacca", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
• John B. Seely (1825). "(Dacca)". Road Book of India; or, East Indian Traveller's Guide. London: Richardson. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
• James Taylor (1840), "The City", A Sketch of the Topography & Statistics of Dacca, Calcutta: G.H. Huttmann, Military Orphan Press {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
• J.H. Stocqueler (1854), "Dacca", Hand-book of British India (3rd ed.), London: Allen and Co. {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
• "Dacca". Street's Indian and Colonial Mercantile Directory for 1870. London: Street. 1870. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
• William Wilson Hunter (1875), "Dacca City", Statistical Account of Bengal, London: Trübner {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
• "Dhakah", Handbook of the Bengal Presidency, London: J. Murray, 1882, OCLC 2093946 {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
• Edward Balfour (1885), "Dacca", Cyclopaedia of India (3rd ed.), London: B. Quaritch {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
• William Wilson Hunter (1885), "Dacca", Imperial Gazetteer of India (2nd ed.), London: Trübner {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
• Government of Bengal, Public Works Department (1896). List of Ancient Monuments in the Dacca Division. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press.
• Joachim Hayward Stocqueler (1900), "Dacca", The Oriental Interpreter and Treasury of East India Knowledge, London: Cox {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)

Published in 20th century

• "Dacca", Chambers's Encyclopaedia, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1901 {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
• F. B. Bradley-Birt (1906), The Romance of an Eastern Capital, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., OCLC 14390376
• "Dacca", Imperial Gazetteer of India, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908, p. 116+ {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
• "Dacca", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Basil Copleston Allen (1912), "Dacca (city)", Dacca, Eastern Bengal District Gazetteers, Allababad: Pioneer Press {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
• R. Hartmann (1913). "Dhaka". Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• S.M. Taifoor (1965). Glimpses of Old Dhaka (2nd ed.). OCLC 759626436.
• Sharif Uddin Ahmed (1986). Dacca: a Study in Urban History and Development. London. ISBN 0913215147.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Sharuf Uddin Ahmed, ed. (1991). Dhaka: past present future. Dhaka: Asiatic Society. ISBN 984-512-335-X.
• Schellinger and Salkin, ed. (1996). "Dhaka". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania. UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781884964046.
• Golam Rabbani (1997). Dhaka, from Mughal outpost to metropolis. Dhaka University Press. ISBN 984-05-1374-5.

Published in 21st century

• Jane Pryer (2003). Poverty and Vulnerability in Dhaka Slums: The Urban Livelihood Study. Ashgate. ISBN 0-7546-1864-1.
• C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Dacca". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill.
• "Dhaka". Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture. Oxford University Press. 2009.
• Kamal Siddiqui; Kaniz Siddique Jamshed Ahmed (2010). Social Formation in Dhaka, 1985–2005: A Longitudinal Study of Society in a Third World Megacity. England: Ashgate. ISBN 978-1-4094-1103-1.
• Ahsanul Kabir & Bruno Parolin (2012), Planning & Development Of Dhaka – A Story Of 400 Years – via International Planning History Society
• Willem van Schendel (2009). A History of Bangladesh. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-67974-9.

External links

• "Dhaka". Islamic Cultural Heritage Database. Istanbul: Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture. Archived from the original on 15 April 2013. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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Government and localities	Dhaka North City Corporation Dhaka South City Corporation Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha Dhaka Metropolitan Police Dhaka High Court Mohakhali Ramna Thana Paltan Motijheel Thana Shahbag Nilkhet Uttara Dhaka Cantonment Banani, Dhaka Segunbagicha Mohammadpur Thana Dhanmondi Thana Kotwali Thana Sutrapur Thana Tejgaon Thana Gulshan Thana Lal Bagh Mirpur Model Thana Pallabi Thana Sabujbagh Thana Demra Thana Hazaribagh Shyampur Badda Thana Kafrul Thana Kamrangirchar Thana Khilgaon Thana
Buildings and landmarks	Sher-e-Bangla Nagor Thana Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban Supreme Court of Bangladesh Baitul Mukarram Martyred Intellectuals Memorial Dhakeshwari Temple Shaheed Minar Star Mosque Curzon Hall Ahsan Manzil Lalbagh Fort Bara Katra Liberation War Museum Chandrima Uddan Hussaini Dalan
Economy	Dhaka Stock Exchange Sonali Bank Rupali Bank Bangladesh Bank Bashundhara City
Education	University of Dhaka Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology North South University Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology American International University-Bangladesh Independent University, Bangladesh Dhaka Medical College and Hospital Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University East West University University of Asia Pacific BIRDEM and Bangladesh National Zoo Schools and Colleges in Dhaka
Culture and sports	Ekushey Book Fair Dhaka World Music Festival Gurdwara Nanak Shahi Suhrawardy Udyan Bangladesh National Zoo Eid al-Fitr Eid al-Adha Durga Puja Pohela Boishakh Victory Day Independence Day Fatullah Osmani Stadium Abahani Limited Dhaka Mohammedan SC Dhaka derby Ivy Rahman Swimming pool Bangabandhu National Stadium Bangladesh Army Stadium Outer Stadium Ground Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium Syed Nazrul Islam National Swimming Complex Dhaka University Ground Dhanmondi Cricket Stadium
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