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260 B.C: Ashoka conquered Kalinga, which ruled Visakhapatnam then.

208 B.C: Chandra Sri Satakarni became King.

220 A.D: Pallavas took over as rulers.

1000 to 1200 A.D: The Cholas came to power. 1500 AD: The Gajapatis overthrew the Gangas.

14th Century: The famed Simhachalam Temple was built.

1515: Krishna Deva Raya came to power as emperor of the region.

1575: The Qutub Shahis of Golconda defeated Gajapatis and came to power.

Mid-17th Century: The East India Company of Britain, founded a factory in the then "Vizagapatam."

1689: Aurangzeb’s forces conquered the factory.

1735: A Dutch Colony was established.

1765: The first British colony was built. On dissolution of the Moghul Empire, the territory of the Northern Circars, which Vizag was a part of, surrendered to the East India Company.

1800: The battles of Bobili and Padmanabham were fought.

1922-24: Alluru Sitharama Raju fought against the British.

1904: A railway route from Madras to Calcutta, passing through Vizagapatam was opened.

1923: The Andhra Medical College was established.

1926: Andhra University was established.

1933: Visakhapatnam Port was established.

1942: Japanese war planes attacked Vizag.

1947: The Eastern Naval Command established its base in Vizag. Previously, the Royal Navy had a base in HMIS Sircars.

1949: The Scindia Shipyard was established and was later nationalised. It is now called the Hindustan Shipyard.

1953: The hitherto Boat Repair Shop was renamed and expanded into a Base Repair Organisation (BRO). It was relocated at the mouth of the northwest channel.

1957: Caltex, a petroleum refinery. HPCL no owns the refinery.

1965: JUMNA and INVESTIGATOR, two survey ships were permanently re-based at Visakhapatnam.

1971: INS Rajput of the Indian Navy destroyed the Pakistani submarine Ghazi in the Indo-Pak War off the coast of Visakhapatnam.

1981: Visakhapatnam Steel Plant started functioning.