प्रयोग:Vidu

1. At the end of the fifteenth century, a reference to Kolkata was found in the famous novel of Manasa Mangal written by Bipradas. The character of Chand Saudagar in the novel paid a visit to Kalighat to offer puja to the Goddess Kali on the way to Saptagram.
2. When the Portugese first began to frequent Bengal about the year 1530, the two great centres of trade were Chittagong and Saptagram.
3. In the Ain-i-Akbari, a work written in 1596 by Abul Fazal in the court house of Emperor Akbar, a reference to Calcutta is noticed under the Government of Satgaon(Saptagram).
4. 1690 August, Job Charnok, an agent of East India Company (established 1600) settles in the village of Sutanutee.
5. 1693 Charnok died.
6. 1696 Fort at Calcutta Factory commenced.
7. 1698 East India Co. bought three villages (Sutanuti, Kolkata, Gobindapur ) from local landlord Sabarna Chowdhury.
8. 1699 East India Company started developing Calcutta as a Presidency city.
9. 1707 Mughal Emperor Aurongajeb died.
10. 1715 British people completed building the Old Fort.
11. 1717 The Mughal emperor Farrukh-siyar granted the East India Company trading privileges in return for a yearly payment of 3,000 rupees.
12. 1727 As per the order of King George I, a civil court was set up. The city corporation was established and Hallwell became the first mayor of the city.
13. 1740 Ali Vardi Khan became the Nawab of Bengal.
14. 1756 Ali Vardi Khan died and Siraj-ud-Dawlla (Mirza Muhammad) became the Nawab of Bengal. Siraj-Ud-Dawlla attacked and captured Calcutta. He changed the name of the city to Alinagar.
15. 1757 23rd June, British people (under the leadership of Robert Clive) defeated Siraj-Ud-Dawlla at Plassey (in Nadia district).
16. 1757 British first printed currency bill in Calcutta mint.
17. 1765 Clive took Bengal, Bihar and Orissa from Badsha Alam II ( Delhi) with an agreement of paying excises.
18. 1770 Infamous famine.
19. 1772 Calcutta became the capital of British India when the first Governor General, Warren Hastings, transferred all important offices to the city from Murshidabad.
20. 1775 Nandakumar, a local landlord was hung in a false allegation when he accused Warren Hastings of corruption.
21. 1780 James Hicky established a printed press and published first news paper "The Bengal Gazzette".
22. 1784 The first official news paper "The Calcutta Gazzette", was published.
23. 1784 Sir William Jones took initiative and established The Asiatic Society.
24. 1795 First Bengali drama 'Kalpanik Song Badol' was staged by Gerasim S. Lebedef at Bengali Theatre.
25. 1801 Fort William College was established.
26. 1804 The Governor House (presently Raj Bhawan) was built.
27. 1813 The Town Hall was built.
28. 1818 First Bengali Magazine Digdarshan was published from Srerampur, with the help of David Hare.
29. 1817 The Hindu College (presently Presidency College) was established with efforts from Rammohan Roy, David Hare and Radhakanta Dev. Initially the college started with 20 students.
30. 1828 Sahid Minar (Octorloney Monument) was built.
31. 1829 Rammohan Roy was successful in making 'satidaho' (a Hindu rule) banned by British Governor General William Bentinck.
32. 1839 Sangbad Prabhakar, the first Bengali daily was published.
33. 1854 First Railway line in India was inaugurated (from Calcutta to Hooghly).
34. Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, the last Nawab of Awadh came to Calcutta in 1857. He built the town of Metiaburj and died in 1887.
35. 1857 The University of Calcutta was established.
36. 1864 The GPO (General Post Office) building was constructed.
37. 1873 First Tram car (horse drawn) in the city was launched.
38. 1875 "The Statesman", leading English Daily newspaper, started.
39. 1875 The Indian Museum was built.
40. 1883 Surendra Nath Banerjee called for a National convention (which led to the forming of Indian National Congress in 1885 at Bombay).
41. 1883 First telephone communication between Calcutta and Howrah through a cable laid beneath the floating Howrah bridge.
42. 1886 Second convention of Indian National Congress happened at Calcutta.
43. 1888 Indian Football Association established.
44. 1895 Scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose experimented on transmission through radio waves at Town Hall.
45. 1896 First motor car appeared on city's street.
46. 1899 For the first time in Calcutta, electricity was generated.
47. 1902 First Electric tram car from Esplanade to Kidderepore.
48. 1905 Lord Curzon, viceroy of India, tried to partition Bengal. There was a strong protest. Finally he failed to do so.
49. 1911 British moved the capital of India from Calcutta to Delhi
50. 1911 A local football team, Mohan Bagan defeated British team in IFA shield final and created national sensation.
51. 1913 Rabindranath Tagore, the great philosopher, poet and writer received Nobel Prize in literature.
52. 1921 King Edward VIII inaugurated the Victoria Memorial building.
53. 1922 Popular Bengali Daily Anandabazar Patrika started.
54. 1924 Chittaranjan Das was elected as the first Indian mayor of the city of Calcutta.
55. 1929 Agnes Goinxha Bejaxhiu (Mother Teresa) came to Calcutta to join Bengal Loreto Mission.
56. 1939 The World War II hit Calcutta.
57. 1941 Tagore died.
58. 1941 Subhash Chandra Bose escaped from house arrest by British.
59. 1943 Thousands of people got killed in famine.
60. 1946 Communal riot killed thousands of people in and around the city.
61. 1947 India gained independence. Bengal got partitioned; Calcutta became the capital city of the state of West Bengal in India. Dr. Prafulla Chandra Ghosh became the first Chief Minister of West Bengal, followed by Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy. Calcutta and suburban area received thousands of people from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) as a result of the partition.
62. 1952 The National Library was moved to Alipore from Esplanade. Alipore Mint inaugurated.
63. 1962 India-China war affected Calcutta.
64. 1962 Bidhan Chandra Roy passes away. He was the chief minister from 1948 through 1962. Prafulla Chandra Sen became the chief minister and remained till 1967 (1962-1967).
65. 1971 Tension of India-Pakistan war on freedom of Bangladesh.
66. 1970-71 The Naxalite Movement hit the city resulting arrests of hundreds of youths and creating enormous tension among city dwellers.
67. 1975 First TV transmission started in the city from August 9th.
68. 1977 Left Front led by CPI(M) Party won the state election and came into the power of state Government.
69. 1977 The world famous football player Pele played in a football match in the city.
70. 1978 A major flood hits Calcutta.
71. 1979 Mother Teresa, a permanent resident of Calcutta was awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
72. 1984 Metro, the first underground railway in India, started from Tollygunge to Esplanade.
73. 1984 First color TV transmission started from the TV centre (DoorDarshan).
74. 1989 France's highest civilian award, Legion d'Honour was conferred upon Satyajit Ray by President F. Mitterrand in Calcutta.
75. 1992 Satyajit Roy, film director, received prestigious "Life Time Achievement" Oscar award and "Bharat Ratna". He died in the same year.
76. 1995 First cellular phone service starts in the city.
77. 1997 Mother Teresa died in Calcutta.
78. 1998 Amartya Sen (grew up in Shantiniketan and studied at Calcutta) received Nobel Prize in Ecomonics
79. 2001 Calcutta was officially renamed as 'Kolkata' from 1st of Januray.

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(kolkata district)

Kolkata district is an administrative district of the Indian state of West Bengal. It contains the center part of the city of Kolkata. The jurisdiction of the Kolkata Collector, that is, of the district, is within the areas covered by the Kolkata Police and by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, but it does not cover the entire area covered by either of them. See Civic administration of Kolkata.

As regards civic infrastructure (water, sewage, etc.), the area of Kolkata District is under the administration of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation. But other parts of the city's (that is, the KMC's) area, and of the city's suburban areas, belong to the districts of North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, Howrah, Hooghly and Nadia.

Kolkata District is bordered by Howrah District, North 24 Parganas District and South 24 Parganas District.

The office of the Kolkata Collector is in B.B.D. Bag, north of the General Post Office.

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(extra) Kolkata District spans an area of about 3150 sq km and comprises three municipal corporations and 29 municipalities. With its headquarters at the historic city of Kolkata, the capital of the state of West Bengal, the district is a major center of industrial, cultural, academic, administrative and business activity.

The Hooghly River, a tributary of the Ganges, flows through Kolkata District. The average rainfall amounts to about 160 cm. Cool in winter, the region is hot and humid from March through September. The main languages spoken in this densely populated district are Bengali, English and Hindi.

There are numerous places of tourist interest in Kolkata District. These include old fort, BBD Bagh, Writers’ Building, the Gothic-style High Court, Victoria Memorial, Zoological Garden, Dakshineswar Temple, Eden Garden, Marble Palace and Nakhoda Mosque.

The chief means of transport in the Kolkata metropolitan area are buses, trams, and trains. There are two main rail terminuses- one at Sealdah in the east central part of Kolkata and the other at Howrah across the river Hooghly. Kolkata’s international airport, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Airport, is at Dum Dum, about 16 km from Kolkata city.