Hebbal, HMT Watch Factory, Kengeri, Krishnarajapura, Lingarajapura, Byappanahalli and Sarjapura were included in the Bangalore Urban Conglomeration. Victoria Hospital was established to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee year of Queen Victoria's reign.

Industry got a boost as Hydroelectric Power Station was installed at Shiva Samundram. Bangalore became the first city then in the country to be electrified.

The first motor car hits the roads of Bangalore. The condition of the roads were not much different from what it is today, according to an artlcle describing the road scene in 1913 in "India for the Motorist" - The excerpt ...."Recollect that no native whatever is capable of judging distances or speeds, therefore it is always needful to sound the horn frequently and well at long distances if the car wished to clear a passage."

Ramakrishna Ashrama established in Basavanagudi. The Bangalore Gayana Samaja was started. Its annual music festival is eagerly looked forward to every year even now.

G.H. Krumbeigel, a German landscape-designer and horticulturist became the Director of Horticulture. It was his vision that transformed Bangalore into a "Blossoming City". He set the tradition by planning and planting flowering trees such that there were blooms on the city avenues all through the year.

Shankar Math stands in a class of its own for its workmanship, expanse and setting. The Math building was completed in the year 1911 and declared open by Lord Harding, the Viceroy of India, in the presence of the Jagadguru Shankaracharaya of Shringeri.

It was Sir Jamshedji Tata's endowment in 1898 to establish a university of science that resulted in the creation of the Indian Institute of Science. The Institute was located at Bangalore because Sir William Ramsey, the Nobel Laureate, who was asked to give his considered opinion, recommended this city as he had stayed in Bangalore. Dewan Seshadri Iyer offered 372 acres of land, free of cost. The foundation stone of the main building was laid in 1911, by the Maharaja of Mysore.

The history of the institute

Indian Tobacco Company (ITC) set up in Bangalore.
Sir M.Visweshwaraiah, the great engineer-statesman, sets up many pioneering institutions during his tenure as Dewan, such as the Mechanical Engineering School and also the Agricultural School at Hebbal.

Minto Ophthalmic Hospital completed and becomes functional. It had started out as a small dispensary in Chamarajapet in 1896 and the two storeyed building on Albert Victor Road was completed only in 1913.

Chambers of Commerce formed. Kannada Sahitya Parishat was established and Seshadri Iyer Memorial Library hall was built in memory of the Dewan of Mysore State, K. Seshadri Iyer.
All Bangalore colleges became affiliated to Mysore University in 1916.

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B R V (British Rifle Volunteers) Theatre, an important centre of entertainment in the earlier days. The picture depicts an un-familiar foreground.

Scout movement was started in Bangalore in 1919.
Here is a view of Commercial Street then, crowded with horse drawn carriages. A lot different from what it is today.

>The State Bank of Mysore headquartered on Kempe Gowda Road, was completed in this year. It has one of the best 'period' iron gates in Bangalore.

One of the earliest instances of communal disharmony preceding the Partition occurred in this year during the Ganesha festival, between the Hindus and Muslims, over a temple in Sultanpet.

Thippagondanahalli Reservoir was commissioned to supply drinking water to the city. Gandhiji visited Bangalore the following year to lay the foundation for a Harijan hospital on Magadi Road.

Puttanna Chetty Town Hall was built in 1935 in the "Silver Jubilee Spirit" which gave the city many distinguished buildings, parks and recreation grounds. This building was donated by Sir K. P. Puttanna Chetty who was President of the Bangalore Municipality between 1913 to 1920.

Bangalore connected by air to Bombay (Mumbai) by Indian Aviation Development Company.

* Bangalore Transport Company Ltd commences operations with a fleet of 20 buses. It was nationalised in 1962 as Bangalore Transport Service.


** Seth Walchand Hirachand gave shape to the ideas of Sir Visveswaraya regarding automobile factory with Chrysler by setting up Hindustan Aircraft. The factory repaired bomber and transport aircrafts used during World War II period.

Entire Bangalore City joins Gandhiji's "Quit India" Movement. Humour magazine Koravanji published.

Raman Research Institute was founded by Nobel Laureate C.V.Raman. On India's independence, the Mysore state acceded to the union and the then Maharaja, Jayachamaraja Wodeyar became the Governor of Mysore State..

The birth of the daily newspaper "Deccan Herald".

The Bangalore Municipal Corporation formed by merging the city, civil and military stations.