History Of Thane

 HISTORY OF THANE 

Throughout history that the town has abandoned its markers under various names. But, it has present-day identify is supposed to be produced from Sthan or even Sthanaka, the funding of those Shilahara kings of Konkan. 

Even the earliest signs of Thane looks from the functions of this Greek geographer,'' Ptolemy, that, at their writings ( 135 - 150 A D ) identifies an area named Chersonesus, which, accordingto research, would be that the location round Thane creek.

The town plants upward in the dark ages, and slabs aluminium plates dating back to into the span are detected in Thane. One, dug up against the bases of Thane Fort at 1787, outdated 1078 A D, appears to be a property grant in Arikesara Devaraja, autonomous of this metropolis of Tagara, whereas he speech the most people of some city named Sri Sthanaka.Even the excellent Venetian traveller Macro Polo far too, at the duration of his drifting place foot at Thane at 1290 advertisement. 

He clarifies the town for being a greatkingdom, that allegedly needed a well-developed interface, for he cites that the continuous site visitors of boats, also merchants exporting and trading leather, buckram, cotton, and also minding horses. 

In simple fact, today, Ghodbunder is also reportedly your website by which horses have been unloaded from boats.

Friar Jordanus, a fantastic traveller, who recently visited the metropolis between A D 1321 and 1324, clarifies it under a Muslim governor. He renders a more in-depth sketch of ancient Christians at Thane and describes this martyrdom of 4 Christian priests in the area, significantly more than 200 years, until the Portuguese put the foot in India. The renowned Ibn Batuta and also Abul Feda, contemporaries of all Friar Jordanus, additionally came. They make reference to Thane since Kukin Tana and discuss it its popularity for being a port that ships sailed into the gulf transporting out a sort of fabric known as'Tanasi' that is made in Thane. 

Duarte Barbosa, a former pupil, clarified Thane from the identifies Tana Mayambu twenty-five many years just before the Portuguese conquest. He paints a more vibrant photograph of this city as truly one among Moorish mosques and temples, and together with lots of agreeable gardens. The Portuguese arrived in Thane roughly 15 30 and mastered it for more than 200 years before 1739. 

Thane was subsequently called Cacabe p Tana. Focus with the Thane Fort started in 1730. Even the Marathas that defeated Bassein and Thane in 1737 and 1739 held influence on the location until 1784, whenever the British seized the Fort and mastered Thane, subsequently called Tana. They left it that the headquarters of this district government with a district collector indulged at Thane. Even the Thane Municipal Council was first formed in 1863, in which the town experienced a population of 9000 spirits. Likewise, there has been a corresponding increase in commerce, construction, and transport tasks that chose up immensely from the eighty's. The '90s has found that the city is well known in advance, with all top-notch, outstanding stride in housing and construction. The public also has improved manifold, and Thane currently conveys pride of location since being a primary suburb and can be set to produce its mark within the upcoming century.

Year & Events 

•  997    Capital of Shrilahar King
• 1340   Ibna-Batula wrote about Thane
• 1663   St. Jon Baptist Church built
• 1754   Subhedar Bivalkar of Peshwa was staying in the old district Court building
• 1760   Kaupineshwar Mandir renovated by Subhedar Bivalkar
• 1774   Thane population crosses 9000.
• 1780   Parsee Agyari built Deshavji Sorabji Rustomji Patel.
• 1818   Vithal Mandir on Station Road
• 1821   B.J.School started 
• 1824-1827 Collector office built
• 1835-1836 Civil Hospital built
• 1838  Thane Fort is converted to Thane Prison
• 1850   Population 11120
• 1853   Bombay - Thane Railway Line First rail train started from Bombay to Thane at 3.30 pm on 16/04/1853 with 400 passengers
• 1855   Railway station bridge constructed
• 1863   Thane Muncipal Corporation inauguration on 10/03/63
• 1863   Thane - Kalwa ridge 
• 1866   First Weekly "Arunodhya". Editor K.V.Phadke
• 1879   Israil Jew Church built Jain Temple on Tembhi Naka built
• 1881   Pokhran lake built
• 1882   Panvel Taluka transferred from Thane to Raigad
• 1890    M.H. High School started with 34 students
• 1898    L.K.Bhave wrote book Maharashtra Saraswat 
• 1901   Mental Hospital built
• 1910   Freedom Fighter 'Kanhere' hanged in Thane jail
• 1914   Kalwa Bridge near Colour Chem completed
• 1916   Gaondevi Temple built
• 1922   Central Maidan resumed as Play ground Area 19380 sq. yards
• 1923   Noori Baba Darga built
• 1926   Electric railway line on Kurla - Thane section
• 1928   Electric railway line on Thane - Kalyan section
• 1932   Dr. Bedekar Vidya Mandir started
• 1935   Brahaman Shikshan Mandal
• 1940   Prabhat Theatre built
• 1948   Shop & Establishment Act made applicable to Thane
• 1950   Marathi Grantha Sangrahalaya Building
• 1954   Mansunda Tank cleared
• 1955   State Bank of India started 
• 1957   Mulund area joined to Bombay corporation
• 1958   Thane Rotary Club started
• 1959   New Station Road parallel to Old Station Road built.
• 1960   Thane Student H.C. Pradhan stood first in S.S.I. Exam
• 1962-65  Raymond, Modella, Voltas, Kores, Colourchem, Roche, Nocil, PIL, etc.
• 1969   Underground drainage for Thane city
• 1972   New Thane Creek bridge joining Sion and Panvel completed
• 1977  MSEB started Electric Supply
• 1978   TSSIA first big meeting of Small Scale Industries at St. John Baptist Hall - Cheif Guest George Fernandes
• 1979  Gadkari Rangayatan - Drama Theatre inaugurated
• 1980   Dnyan Sadhana College started
• 1981   Thane Population 4.72 Lakhs
• 1982   1st Oct. Thane Municipality changed to Thane Corporation
• 1984    Air survey of Thane area by TMC 

Above is the History of Thane Till 1984 and I will bring something more interesting about Thane in my next blog..

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