Timeline of Dhaka

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Prior to 19th century[]

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  • 8th century CE – Dhaka part of Pala Empire.
  • 1095 – Senas in power.
  • 1457 – Binat Bibi Mosque constructed.[1]
  • 1459 – Gate built.[2]
  • 1580s – Portuguese merchants open the first European trading post in Dhaka.[3]
  • 1610 – City renamed Jahangirnagar; becomes capital of Bengal; Mughal Islam Khan in power.[2][3]
  • 1639 – Capital relocated from Dhaka to Rajmahal.[2]
  • 1640 – Mughal Eidgah mosque built.[4][5]
  • 1642 – Hussaini Dalan (mosque) built.[6]
  • 1645 – Bara Katra (caravansary) built.[4][5]
  • 1646 – Navaratna temple built (approximate date).[5]
  • 1649 – Lalbagh Fort mosque built.[2]
  • 1659 – Capital relocated to Dhaka from Rajmahal.[2]
  • 1660 – Pagla bridge built on Dacca-Narayangaj road (approximate date).[5][7]
  • 1682 – 25 October: William Hedges, the first Agent and Governor of East India Company in the Bay of Bengal, arrived Dhaka.[8]: 156 
  • 1663 – Choto Katra (caravansary) built.
  • 1668 – English Factory built.[4]
  • 1676 – Chowk Bazaar Shai Mosque built.
  • 1677 – Holy Rosary Church built by Portuguese.
  • 1678 – Lalbagh palace construction begins.[4]
  • 1679 – Shahbaz Khan Mosque and Khan Mohammad Mridha Mosque built.[2]
  • 1696
    • Mosque of Haji Kahjeh Shahabag built in Ramne (approximate date).[5]
    • Jayakali temple and Siva temple built in Thatari Bazar (approximate date).[5]
  • 1704 – Murshid Quli Khan residence relocates from Dhaka to Murshidabad.[9]
  • 1717 – Khan Muhammad Ali Khan becomes deputy governor.[10]
  • 1723 – Itisam Khan becomes deputy governor.[10]
  • 1728 – Mirza Lutfullah becomes deputy governor.[10]
  • 1756 – Jasarat Khan becomes deputy governor.[10]
  • 1765
    • British East India Company in power.
    • Population: 450,000 (estimate).[11]
  • 1781 – Armenian Church built.[5]
  • 1793 – Laxmi Narayan Mandir (temple) built.
  • 1800 – Population: 200,000 (estimate).[9]

19th century[]

  • 1815
    • Catholic church built.[12]
    • Lunatic Asylum founded.[12]
  • 1819 – St. Thomas Church built.[12]
  • 1825 – Population: 150,000 (approximate).[13]
  • 1830
  • 1834 – Ghaziuddin Haider becomes deputy governor.[10]
  • 1835 – Dhaka Collegiate School established.[16]
  • 1840 – Population bottoms out at 50,000.[17]
  • 1846 – Union School is established to give the poor an English education.[18]
  • 1850 – Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of Eastern Bengal established.
  • 1857 – Uprising of sepoys.[12]
  • 1858
    • City becomes part of British Raj.
    • Mitford Hospital established.[9]
  • 1864 – 1 August: Dacca Municipality established.[12]
  • 1866 – Langar Khana (almshouse) founded.[9]
  • 1872 – Population: 69,212.[15]
  • 1874 – Madrasa established.[12]
  • 1875 – Medical school established.[12]
  • 1876 – Dhaka Survey School is established to teach surveying and road building in the vernacular.[19]
  • 1878
  • 1880 – Northbrook Hall built.
  • 1881 – Population: 79,076.[9]
  • 1882 – St Gregory's School founded.
  • 1883 – Jagannth College founded.[12] (Now Jagannath University)
  • 1885 – Revenue service begins on the Narayanganj-Dhaka portion of the Dacca State Railway.[20]
  • 1886 – Mymensingh-Dhaka railway opens.[16]
  • 1888
    • April: Tornado.[12]
    • Ahsan Manzil (Pink Palace) rebuilt.[21]
  • 1897 – 12 June: Earthquake.[22]

20th century[]

1900s–1960s[]

1970s–1990s[]

21st century[]

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ According to the United Nations, population in Dhaka in 1991 was 3,397,187.[37]

References[]

  1. ^ ArchNet. "Dhaka". Archived from the original on October 2012.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Grove 2009.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b van Schendel 2009, p. xviii.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Taylor 1840.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Government of Bengal 1896.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Syedur Rahman (2010), Historical Dictionary of Bangladesh (4th ed.), USA: Scarecrow Press, ISBN 9780810867666
  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. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Hunter 1885.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Sirajul Islam; Ahmed A. Jamal, eds. (2012). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (2nd ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
  11. ^ Jump up to: a b Siddiqui 2010, p. 4.
  12. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k Gazetteer of India 1908.
  13. ^ Seely 1825.
  14. ^ "Gurdwara Nanak Shahi, Dhaka - SikhiWiki, free Sikh encyclopedia". www.sikhiwiki.org. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  15. ^ Jump up to: a b Hunter 1875.
  16. ^ Jump up to: a b Chambers 1901.
  17. ^ Jump up to: a b van Schendel 2009, p. xix.
  18. ^ Ahmed 1986, p. 61: "... founded a new school in the city, on 12 June 1846, under the name of the Union School ... for the express purpose of imparting English education to the needy. Within two years however ... the school could not be continued for lack of funds ... N. P. Pogose ... came to the school's rescue. The still famous Pogose School thus came into being."
  19. ^ Ahmed 1986, pp. 76–77: "... founding of a vernacular survey school attached to the Dacca College in January 1876, which offered a two-year course in surveying ... and in levelling and the elements of road-making ... In 1876, 29 students joined the Dacca Survey School."
  20. ^ Ahmed 1986, p. 99: "Dacca State Railway ... the Narayanganj-Dacca section was opened for passengers and goods on 4 January 1885."
  21. ^ "Dhaka Town". Dhakatown.net. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
  22. ^ Britannica 1910.
  23. ^ Bosworth 2007.
  24. ^ van Schendel 2009, p. xx.
  25. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Kabir Chowdhury (2001), "Bangladesh", in Don Rubin; et al. (eds.), World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Asia/Pacific, Routledge, ISBN 9780415260879
  26. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Siddiqui 2010, p. 6.
  27. ^ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
  28. ^ van Schendel 2009, p. xxi.
  29. ^ Jump up to: a b c "The thriving art scene in Dhaka". Daily Star. Dhaka. 16 January 2009.
  30. ^ "Dhaka (Bangladesh) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
  31. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g "Mayor's Corner". Dhaka South City Corporation. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
  32. ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279. Dacca
  33. ^ van Schendel 2009, p. xxii.
  34. ^ "Bangladesh Group Theatre Federation". Retrieved 13 February 2013.
  35. ^ "About Us". Dhaka South City Corporation. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
  36. ^ van Schendel 2009, p. xxiii.
  37. ^ United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division (1997). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1995 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 262–321.
  38. ^ "Chobi Mela". Archived from the original on 18 February 2013. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
  39. ^ "Statistical Pocket Book, 2008" (PDF). Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 February 2013.
  40. ^ "Hay Festival Dhaka Is Back Again". Global Voices. 7 November 2012.
  41. ^ "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations
  42. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Book of the Year. 2013. ISBN 978-1-62513-103-4.
  43. ^ "Capitals of Islamic Culture". Morocco: Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
  44. ^ "A history of cities in 50 buildings", The Guardian, UK, 2015
  45. ^ World Health Organization (2016), Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database, Geneva

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
  • John B. Seely (1825). "(Dacca)". Road Book of India; or, East Indian Traveller's Guide. London: Richardson.
  • James Taylor (1840), "The City", A Sketch of the Topography & Statistics of Dacca, Calcutta: G.H. Huttmann, Military Orphan Press
  • J.H. Stocqueler (1854), "Dacca", Hand-book of British India (3rd ed.), London: Allen and Co.
  • "Dacca". Street's Indian and Colonial Mercantile Directory for 1870. London: Street. 1870.
  • William Wilson Hunter (1875), "Dacca City", Statistical Account of Bengal, London: Trübner
  • "Dhakah", Handbook of the Bengal Presidency, London: J. Murray, 1882, OCLC 2093946
  • Edward Balfour (1885), "Dacca", Cyclopaedia of India (3rd ed.), London: B. Quaritch
  • William Wilson Hunter (1885), "Dacca", Imperial Gazetteer of India (2nd ed.), London: Trübner
  • 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

Published in 20th century[]

  • "Dacca", Chambers's Encyclopaedia, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1901
  • F. B. Bradley-Birt (1906), The Romance of an Eastern Capital, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., OCLC 14390376, OL 6992126M
  • "Dacca", Imperial Gazetteer of India, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908, p. 116+
  • "Dacca", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
  • Basil Copleston Allen (1912), "Dacca (city)", Dacca, Eastern Bengal District Gazetteers, Allababad: Pioneer Press
  • R. Hartmann (1913). "Dhaka". Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden.
  • S.M. Taifoor (1965). Glimpses of Old Dhaka (2nd ed.). OCLC 759626436.
  • Sharif Uddin Ahmed (1986). Dacca: A Study in Urban History and Development (1st ed.). London: Curzon Press. ISBN 0-913215-14-7.
  • 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 Free to read
  • 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.
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