Bangalore's origins go back to 4,000 BC or the old stone age based on stone implements found at Jalahalli, Sidhapura and Jadigenahalli, all of which are Bangalore's outskirts today.
| 1000 BC | Burial grounds found in Koramangala and Chikkajala; pre-historic sites discovered near Anekal and Tabaranahalli. |
| 27 BC | Trans-oceanic trade between Bangalore and ancient civilisations; coins of Roman emperors Augustus, Tyberius and Claudius found in Yeshwantpur and HAL areas |
| 850 AD | 'Bengalooru' appears on Mauryan empire milestone [9th century] |
| 1015 | Chola Empire takes over City |
| 1120 | Veera Ballala II calls it 'Benda Kalooru' or 'Town of Boiled Beans' (after a poor woman feeds him beans in the forest) |
| 1537 | Kempe Gowda I designs City as it exists today. (Kempe Gowda II built the 4 towers) |
| 1638 | Shahaji Bhonsle (Shivaji's father) captures City for Adil Shah who gifts it to him |
| 1640 | Shivaji marries Bangalore girl |
| 1687 | Aurangzeb's army captures City |
| 1690 | Aurangzeb sells it to the Wodeyars for Rs. 300,000 |
| 1759 | Wodeyar gifts it to Hyder Ali who starts building Lal Bagh. Tipu Sultan completes it |
| 1791 | Cornwallis defeats Tipu but returns City to him |
| 1799 | Tipu dies. City returned to Wodeyar |
| 1800 | Bangalore GPO [General Post Office] opened |
| 1809 | British Cantonment established |
| 1812 | St. Mark's Cathedral built |
| 1831 | British take-over administration |
| 1853 | Sunday declared a weekly holiday |
| 1859 | 1st train steams out of City |
| 1862 | Two municipal bodies - civil and cantonment - established. |
| 1864 | Sankey builds Cubbon Park. British currency notes in circulation |
| 1867 | Attara Kacheri built |
| 1872 | Seshadripuram and Chamarajpet formed |
| 1877 | Great famine |
| 1881 | Mysore kingdom rendered back to Wodeyers. Scene set for making Bangalore a modern city. The first telephone arrives in the cantonment |
| 1882 | Bangalore-Mysore railway inaugurated |
| 1887 | Bangalore Palace built |
| 1898 | The great plague. Basavanagudi and Malleswaram added. |
| 1903 | 1st motor car rolls out on the city roads |
| 1905 | India's 1st electric bulb lit in Bangalore City Market |
| 1906 | Prince of Wales visits with his wife who unveils Queen Victoria statue in Cubbon Park |
| 1909 | Indian Institute of Science built |
| 1927/34 | Mahatma Gandhi visits Bangalore |
| 1940 | 1st flight Bangalore/Bombay |
| 1948 | English newspaper Deccan Herald launched |
| 1949 | Two municipalities merge, laying foundation for modern Bangalore |
| 1954 | Vidhana Soudha built |
