History of Kochi

  

Timeline of Kochi
Year	Event
1102	The kingdom of Kulasekhara breaks up, and the Cochin State is formed.
1341	The port at Kodungallur is destroyed in a massive flooding in the Periyar. The prominece of Kochi as a trading post increases.
1440	Italian traveller Niccolò Da Contivisits Kochi
1500	Portuguese Admiral Pedro Álvares Cabral, lands at Kochi.
1503	Kingdom of Kochi is taken over by the Portuguese.
1530	Saint Francis Xavier arrives and introduces a Christian mission.
1663	Portuguese rule overthrown by the Dutch.
1664	Dutch establish municipality of Fort Kochi, the first municipality in Indian subcontinent
1773	Mysore King, Hyder Ali's conquest descends on Kochi.
1814	Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 officially passes the city to the United Kingdom
1947	India gains independence, Kochi joins the Indian Union.
1956	The State of Kerala is formed.
1967	Kochi Corporation comes into existence.

• Kochi is a small city located in the Ernakulam District in the Indian state of Kerala. Trivandrum which is the capital and largest city of Kerala is 200km away from Kochi.

• For many centuries up to and during the British Raj, the city of Kochi was the seat of the eponymous princely state. Kochi traces its history back many centuries, when it was the centre of Indian spice trade for hundreds of years, and was known to the Yavanas (Greeks and Romans), Jews, Arabs and Chinese since ancient times.^[1] Kochi earned a significant position on the world trading map after the port at Kodungallur (Cranganore) was destroyed by massive flooding of the river Periyar in 1341.

• The earliest documented references to Kochi occur in the books written by Chinese voyager Ma Huan, during his visit to Kochi in the 15th century as part of the treasure fleet of Admiral Zheng He.

•  There are also references to Kochi in accounts written by Italian traveller Niccolò Da Conti, who visited Cochin in 1440.Today, Kochi is the commercial hub of Kerala, and one of the fastest growing second-tier metropolises in India