Historical place archive

Bombay in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Bombay in India. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

12 records11 event labels7 people1885โ€“1991

Historical events in Bombay

1885

1885
Indian National Association
Surendranath Banerjea ยท Indian National Association

Founds the Indian National Congress

1885
Indian National Congress
Surendranath Banerjea ยท Indian National Association

Founds the Indian National Congress

1891

1891
Profession
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ยท Congress Party

Practises law in Bombay for 2 years

1898

1898
Indian National Congress
Surendranath Banerjea ยท Indian National Congress

Appointed Congress President, 1st term

1935

1935
Bombay Legislature
Morarji Ranchodji Desai ยท Government of India

Appointed Member of Bombay Legislature.

1944

27 September 1944
Independence of India
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ยท Congress Party

Talks break down with Jinnah over a Hindu-Moslem settlement

1945

1 June 1945
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Homi Jehangir Bhabha ยท Physics

Homi Bhabha founds the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research to build advanced research in physics and related sciences in India.

1951

1951
Vaidya Metric
Prahalad Chunnilal Vaidya ยท Physics

Vaidya publishes an exact solution of Einstein's field equations describing the gravitational field outside a radiating star.

1960

February 1960
TIFRAC
R. Narasimhan ยท Technology

R. Narasimhan and the TIFR team complete TIFRAC, an early indigenous digital computer designed and built in India.

1986

6 August 1986
IVF Birth
Indira Hinduja ยท Medicine

Indira Hinduja and her team achieve a successful test-tube baby birth at KEM Hospital using in vitro fertilization.

1988

4 January 1988
GIFT Birth
Indira Hinduja ยท Medicine

Indira Hinduja pioneers gamete intrafallopian transfer in India, resulting in the country's first GIFT baby.

1991

24 January 1991
Oocyte Donation
Indira Hinduja ยท Medicine

Indira Hinduja's work leads to India's first reported birth using an oocyte donation technique for infertility treatment.

Provenance

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