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The history of Mumbai can be traced back to 600 BC, with evidence of the first known settlement of the Harrappan civilization discovered in the region.^{[citation needed]}

Up to 18th century

600 BC – First known permanent settlement were the Marathi speaking Koli & Agri community.^[1]
300 BC – Part of Maurya Empire.
900 – Part of Shilahara.
1343 – Part of the Gujarat Sultanate
1431 – Haji Ali Dargah built.
1508 – Francisco de Almeida sailed into the deep natural harbour.
1534 – City ceded to the Portuguese.
1661 – Portuguese Princess Catherine of Braganza brings Bom Bahia to King Charles II of England as part of her marriage dowry.
1668/1669 – East India Company leased the seven islands of Mumbai from Charles II
1670 – First printing press imported to Mumbai by Parsi businessman Bhimjee Parikh
1672 – Consecration of the first Tower of Silence and first Fire temple (Hirji Vachha Agiary, now defunct)
1675 – Population estimated to have risen to 60,000 from 100,000 in 1661.
1675 – The Mumba Devi Temple built near the main landing site on the former Bori Bunder creek or inlet, against the north wall of the English Fort Saint George.
1709 – First attested private Parsi Adaran (in the home of Banaji Limji). Continues to be the oldest continuously-burning Zoroastrian fire in Mumbai (now in the Banaji Limji Agiary, Fort).
1735 – Start of shipbuilding industry (Wadia docks, Duncan docks)
1750 – Asia's first dry dock built by Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia in Mumbai.
1777 – First newspaper published in Mumbai by Rustom Kersaspjere.

19th century

1801 – Siddhivinayak temple built at Prabhadevi.
1803 – Fire.^[2]
19 June 1810 – HMS Minden floated, first Royal Navy ship built outside the British Isles and from the deck of which the Star Spangled Banner would be composed
1822 – First vernacular language newspaper in Mumbai, Mumbai Samachar published by Fardunjee Marzban. India's oldest newspaper still being published.
1838 – First edition of MumbaiTimes and Journal of Commerce launched
1845 – Grant Medical College founded.
1846 – Mahim Causeway between Salsette and Mahim completed.
16 April 1853 – First railway line in India between Mumbai and Thane.
1854 – First cotton mill started.
1857 – University of Mumbai established.
1858 – The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China opens its Bombay branch.
1864 – The Mumbai, Baroda, and Central India Railway (later merged with other railways to form Western Railway) is extended to Mumbai.
1870 – Mumbai Port Trust formed.
1874 – St. Peters School was set up by S.S.J.E. at Dockyard
1885 – Indian National Congress formed at Gowalia Tank Maidan.
1887 – Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) established. First and only institute offering degree in engineering until 1960.
1888 – Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation founded.
1890 – Robert Harris, 4th Baron Harris arrives to take over as Governor of the Presidency of Mumbai.
1893 – Sectarian rioting between Hindus and Muslims.
1896 – Famine followed by break out of bubonic plague. Waldemar Haffkine begins plague research at Grant Medical College.
1897 – Haffkine announces plague vaccine, tests it on himself and on volunteers from Byculla Jail.
1897 – First ever gasoline motor-car in the Indian subcontinent brought to Mumbai by Mr Forster of Crompton Greaves.
1899 – Bombay plague epidemic

20th century

1900 – By this year, 45 trains of Western Railway in each direction were carrying over one million passengers annually.
1908 – Franciscan Missionary Brothers, a German Missionary established St Francis D'Assisi High School in Borivali, west suburbs of Bombay, India.
1911 – King George V and Queen Mary visit Bombay. Gateway of India is built to commemorate their arrival.
1912 – King George English School, Dadar, Mumbai was established, now known as Raja Shivaji Vidyasankul, Dadar, Mumbai^[3]
1913 – Sydenham College established. The First College of Commerce in Asia.
12 January 1915 – Gandhi returns to India from South Africa at Bombay.
1920 – Half of Bombay [ Arthur road (Chinchpokli West) to Kalachauki (cotton green station), sewri station- Bharatmata (Lalbaug) ] united in Chinchpokli to celebrate Ganesh Festival. People came from all over Bombay to Chinchpokli in Ganesh Festival.
22 January 1926 – King Edward Memorial Hospital inaugurated.
15 July 1926 – First motorised bus ran between Afghan Church and Crawford Market.
1928 – The first electric train runs between Churchgate and Borivali.
1930 – Mumbai Cricket Association established.
15 October 1932 – J. R. D. Tata flew from Karachi to Mumbai via Ahmedabad landing on a grass strip at Juhu paving the way for civil aviation in India.
1 October 1933 – UDCT established. First institute dedicated to research in Chemical Engineering in India.^[4]
1934 – Congress Socialist Party founded.^[5]
1940 – reclamation of land that will become Nariman Point begins.
8 August 1942 – Quit India Movement declaration passed at Gowalia Tank Maidan.
14 April 1944 – Mumbai Harbour Explosion kills scores of people and hurls debris up to 3 km away.
1947 – Progressive Artists' Group founded.^[6]
1958 – IIT Bombay established in Powai.
1960 – "Flora Fountain incident": 105 Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti demonstrators killed in altercation with the police
1 May 1960 – Bombay becomes the capital of newly formed Marathi-state Maharashtra.
31 March 1964 – Last tram made its journey from Bori Bundar to Dadar.
1982 January – Great Bombay Textile Strike started, by mill workers of Mumbai, under trade union leader Dutta Samant.
December 1992 – January 1993 – Over 2000 people killed in Hindu-Muslim communal riots following the Babri Masjid destruction.
1993 – Serial bomb blasts across Mumbai, masterminded by underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, kill 300 and injure hundreds more.
1995 – Bombay renamed Mumbai. Subsequently, University of Bombay renamed to University of Mumbai. [1]