Chronology
Timeline
c. 3000–1200 BCE
Neolithic ash-mound cultures of the southern Deccan
Cattle-keeping communities occupy granite hill sites across northern and central Karnataka; the earliest sustained human settlement in the region.
Read morec. 1200–300 BCE
Iron Age megalithic burials spread through the Kaveri basin
Cists, dolmens and urn burials with iron implements mark a new agrarian society.
Read morec. 250 BCE
Ashokan minor rock edicts at Brahmagiri, Maski and Siddapura
Mauryan authority reaches northern Karnataka, administered from Suvarnagiri.
Read morec. 350 CE
Western Gangas establish rule over Gangavadi
A dynasty centred first at Kolar and later Talakadu governs southern Karnataka.
Read morec. 450 CE
Halmidi inscription — the earliest Kannada-language record
Kannada enters the epigraphic record under Kadamba rule.
Read more634 CE
Aihole inscription of Pulakeshin II
The Badami Chalukyas dominate the Deccan and claim overlordship of Gangavadi.
Read more981 CE
Gommateshwara monolith raised at Shravanabelagola
The Ganga minister Chavundaraya commissions the 17.5 m statue of Bahubali.
Read more1004 CE
Chola conquest of Gangavadi
Talakadu falls to the Cholas and is renamed Rajarajapura.
Read more1116 CE
Hoysala Vishnuvardhana captures Talakadu
The Cholas are expelled; Vishnuvardhana takes the title Talakadugonda.
Read more1268 CE
Chennakesava temple consecrated at Somanathapura
The high point of Hoysala soapstone architecture in the Mysore district.
Read more1343 CE
Death of Veera Ballala III ends Hoysala rule
The Hoysala domain passes to the new Vijayanagara state.
Read more1399
Traditional founding of the Mysore chiefdom
Yaduraya Wadiyar is said to establish the dynasty as a Vijayanagara feudatory.
Read more1565
Battle of Talikota
Vijayanagara's defeat by the Deccan sultanates loosens imperial control over the south.
Read more1610
Raja Wadiyar I takes Srirangapatna
Mysore becomes effectively independent; the Dasara durbar is instituted at the new capital.
Read more1673–1704
Administrative reforms of Chikka Devaraja Wadiyar
Eighteen revenue departments, a postal system and expanded frontiers.
Read more1761
Hyder Ali becomes de facto ruler of Mysore
A European-drilled army and a fiscal-military state take shape.
Read more1767–1769
First Anglo-Mysore War
Hyder Ali dictates the Treaty of Madras at the gates of the city.
Read more1780
Battle of Pollilur
Mysorean forces inflict one of the East India Company's heaviest defeats.
Read more1782
Tipu Sultan succeeds Hyder Ali
Rocket artillery, sericulture and diplomatic missions to France and Istanbul.
Read more1792
Treaty of Seringapatam
Tipu cedes half his territory after the Third Anglo-Mysore War.
Read more4 May 1799
Fall of Srirangapatna and death of Tipu Sultan
The kingdom is partitioned; a reduced Mysore is restored to the Wadiyars under subsidiary alliance.
Read more1831
British Commission assumes direct administration
Fifty years of Commissioner rule follow the Nagar insurrection.
Read more25 March 1881
The Rendition of Mysore
Rule returns to the Wadiyars; the Mysore Representative Assembly is convened the same year.
Read more1902–1905
Shivanasamudra hydroelectric power reaches Mysore and Bangalore
Among the earliest hydroelectric transmission schemes in Asia.
Read more1912
Amba Vilas Palace completed
Henry Irwin's Indo-Saracenic palace replaces the wooden palace burnt in 1897.
Read more1916
University of Mysore founded
The first university established in a princely state; Mysore Sandal Soap launched.
Read more1932
Krishnaraja Sagar dam completed
Visvesvaraya's Kaveri reservoir transforms irrigation in the Mysore–Mandya tract.
Read more1947
Accession to the Indian Union
Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar signs the Instrument of Accession.
Read more1 November 1956
States Reorganisation unites the Kannada-speaking districts
An enlarged Mysore State is formed from four administrations.
Read more1 November 1973
Mysore State renamed Karnataka
Observed annually as Kannada Rajyotsava.
Read more2014
Mysore officially renamed Mysuru
Karnataka regularises the Kannada spellings of several city names.
Read more2015–2016
Mysuru ranked India's cleanest city
Top placement in successive Swachh Survekshan surveys.
Read more2023
Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas inscribed by UNESCO
Somanathapura, Belur and Halebidu join the World Heritage List.
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