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322 BC - 185 BC Mauryan Empire
185 BC - 73 BC Sunga Dynasty
73 BC - 335 AD The Age of Chaos
335 AD - 550 AD The Imperial Guptas
550 AD - 750 AD The Rise and fall of Sasanka
637 AD Hiuen-Tsang visits Bengal
750 AD - 1158 AD The Palas
1158 AD - 1250 AD The Sen Dynasty
1251 AD - 1342 AD The Turks
1342 AD - 1487 AD Ilyas Shahi Dynasty and...
1487 AD - 1493 AD The Abyssinians
1493 AD - 1538 AD Hussain Shahi Dynasty
1538 AD - 1576 AD The rule of Pathans
1576 AD Battle of Rajmahal
1587 AD - 1690 AD Mughal regime begins
1690 AD Birth of Calcutta
1696 AD Fort William
1700 AD Calcutta Presidency
1772 AD - 1833 AD Raja Ram Mohan Roy
1772 AD Capital of East India...
1774 AD - 1862 AD First Supreme Court of India
1777 AD Writer's Building
1784 AD Asiatic Society
1787 AD Acharya Jagadish Chandra...
1814 AD Indian Museum
1820 AD Kolkata Race Course
1825 AD Shaheed Mandir
1828 AD Brahmo Samaj
1833 AD Currency Building
1835 AD Marble Palace
1848 AD - 1855 AD Dakshineshwara Temple
1864 AD - 1868 AD General Post Office
1870 AD Port of Kolkata
1880 AD BBD Bagh (Dalhousie Square)
1880 AD Trams
1884 AD Magen David Synagogue
1897 AD Ramakrishna Mission
1903 AD National Library of India
1906 AD - 1921 AD Victoria Memorial
1911 AD Relocation of the capital
1924 AD Lascar War Memorial
1943 AD Howrah Bridge
1947 AD Partition of Bengal
1960 AD Birla Planetarium
1967 AD - 1977 AD The Naxalite movement
1971 AD Indo-Pak War
2001 AD Calcutta is renamed to Kolkata
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