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1946 Government Asheq Mahmud College was established in Jamalpur by a landlord named Ashed Mahmud.
Google | 1947 Mohammad Ali Jinnah flew from Delhi to Karachi and took office seven days later as the first governor general of the new Dominion of Pakistan.
Google | 1948 Mohammad Ali Jinnah dies and is succeeded by Khwaja Nazimuddin.
Google | 1971 The first naval fleet of Bangladesh 'Bangabandhu Naubohar' consisting of six small ships was inaugurated.
Google | 1971 Soviet Navy deploys group of ships armed with nuclear missiles from Vladivostok to counter USS Enterprise.
Google | 1972 just after one year of independence of Bangladesh, a Navy contingent of 100 men for the first time on the soil of sovereign Bangladesh participated in the victory day parade reviewed by President Abu Sayeed Chowdhury at Suhrawardy Uddan.
Google | 1973 Shanti Bahini (Peace Force), was formed by Jyotindra Larma; initially as the Gana Mukti Fauj (People's Liberation Army) and later renamed to Shanti Bahini.
Google | 1973 The government has issued orders to immediately deploy 'sufficient number' of Rakkhi Bahini personnel at over 150 thana headquarters of the country in order to intensify drive against miscreants engaged in anti-social activities.
Google | 1979 Government Asheq Mahmud College in Jamalpur was nationalised by the government of Bangladesh.
Google | 1986 Double-decker ferry sank in stormy weather in Bangladesh killing 200.
Google | 1996 Shanti Bahini guerrillas killed 30 Bengali-speaking settlers in the southeastern Chittagong Hill Tracts.
Google | 2000 A ferry collided with another ferry ship and sank on the Meghna River in southeastern Bangladesh killing at least 178 people.
Google | 2001 Polythene bags were declared banned in Dhaka.
Google | 2002 The government introduces in the Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament) a bill seeking to repeal the controversial Public Safety (Special Provisions) Act, 2000. However, according to the provisions of the bill, all the ongoing cases filed under the law would continue till their disposal unless the government withdraws them.
Google | 2002 A ferry on the Meghna River capsized with some 400 passengers traveling from Dhaka to southern Patuakhali. Early reports had only 100 survivors. The ferry was raised and the death toll increased to 370.
Google | 2002 Some 200 people were feared dead after 19 boats disappeared in a storm off Bangladesh.
Google | 2003 In northeastern Bangladesh a river boat carrying more than 170 people capsized, killing 79 people, including 49 children.
Google | 2003 A ferry with an estimated 750 passengers sank at the confluence of the Padma, Meghna and Dakatia rivers about 40 miles south of the capital, Dhaka. Some 220 survivors were counted.
Google | 2003 Passanger launch M.L. Nasrin sank near Chandpur leaving more than 800 passengers dead; the vessel, with a capacity of 294, was reportedly carrying nearly 1,000 passengers.
Google | 2004 The country's first flyover at Mohakhali, 1.01 km long Mohakhali flyover opens.
Google | 2005 Passanger launch M.L. Prince of Patuakhali was caught in a nor'wester and capsised near Galachipa with more than 200 passengers on board; at least half of them either died or went missing.
Google | 2005 At least 70 people were missing after a ferry capsized in the Bay of Bengal while sailing to Chittagong port in Bangladesh from a nearby island.
Google | 2008 A launch carrying nearly 150 passengers was caught in a nor-wester and capsized in Ghorautra river in Nikli, Kishoreganj killing 42 people.
Google | 2009 A ferry boat sank after colliding with a larger ferry on the Titas River, killing 10 women and children.
Google | 2010 At least 37 people died from drowning when a passenger motorboat sank after a head-on collision with a cargo boat in the Dhanu river in Jamalganj upazila of Sunamganj.
Google | 2012 Bangladesh's state owned mobile network, Teletalk has launched the country's first 3G network.
Google | 2013 At least two people died and dozens were rescued after the ML Sarash passenger ferry collided with another ship and capsized on the River Meghna in Munshiganj district, dumping as many as 100 people into the water.
Google | 2014 M.V. Pinak ferry, licensed at 85 capacity, capsized in the Padma river southwest of Dhaka with about 200 passengers on board. About 100 people were rescued with 19 bodies recovered and at least 125 presumed dead.
Google | 2015 A trawler carrying up to 200 passengers sank in the River Payra in southern Bangladesh. Most people were rescued or swam ashore. At least five people died and two were missing.
Google | 2016 Bangladesh Navy officially took delivery of two Type 035G diesel electric submarines (SSKs), its first ever submarines, in a ceremony held at Liaonan Shipyard in Dalian, China.
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