| Year |
Event |
| AD937 | Rashtrakoota empire copper plate indicating Pune's original name as "Punya-Vishaya" or "Poonak Vishaya" |
| AD1000 | (circa) The Pataleshwar cave temples on Jungli Maharaj Road are thought to have been built |
| 1595 | Maloji Bhosale receives Jahagir of Pune and Supe from the Mughals |
| 1625 | Shahaji, Shivaji's father appoints Rango Bapuji Dhadphale as administrator of Pune who develops the Kasba, Somwar, Ravivar and Shaniwar Peth localities |
| 1640 | The Lal Mahal palace for Shivaji and his mother Jijabai is built |
| 1720 | Bajirao I becomes the Peshwa |
| 1730 | Shaniwar Wada is completed |
| 1749 | Nanasaheb Peshwa, Bajirao's son, builds Parvati temple and Lakdi Pul, now called Sambhaji Bridge |
| 1761 | Decline of the Maratha empire begins after the Marathas lose the battle of Panipat |
| 1782 | Nana Phadnavis builds Pune's drainage system |
| 1790 | A water supply system for the city is introduced, designed by Sardar Raste |
| 1811 | Vishrambag Wada is built |
| 1820 | The British establish a cantonment in the Eastern part of the city |
| 1830 | Deccan College started |
| 1856 | Bombay-Pune railway completed |
| 1867 | Khadakwasla dam is built |
| 1886 | Pune-Miraj metre-gauge line is completed |
| 1875 | Department of Meterology offices shifted to Pune from Simla |
| 1884 | Fergusson College inaugurated. |
| 1885 | Deccan Paper Mills starts operations |
| 1888 | Government photo-zinco press starts functioning |
| 1893 | Rajabahadur Motilal Pittie starts first textile mill in Pune |
| 1896 | Raja Ravi Varma, legendary artist starts his litho press at Malavli, near Lonavla, 50 km from Pune |
| 1897 | The first assassination of a British official in India's freedom struggle by the Chaphekar brothers takes place on Ganeshkhind Road on June 22 |
| 1916 | Central Water & Power Research Station instituted |
| 1916 | First town planning scheme by Pune Municipality |
| 1917 | Development of Laxmi Road and Tilak Road |
| 1919 | Development of underground sewage system |
| 1920 | Erandwane merges in Pune Municipality |
| 1921 | Construction on the Lloyd (shivaji Bridge) started |
| 1928 | Pune Observatory established |
| 1928 | The Mumbai-Pune Deccan Queen makes her first run |
| 1930 | Vishrambaugwada premises used for Pune Municipality |
| 1941 | Silver Jubilee Motor Transport bus service started |
| 1947 | India gains independence |
| 1949 | National Chemical Laboratory (Pashan) starts functioning |
| 1950 | The National Defence Academy (Khadakvasla) founded |
| 1950 | Pune Municipal Transport (PMT) begins operations |
| 1956 | Hindustan Antibiotics (Pimpri) begins operations |
| 1957-60 | Industrial areas of Hadapsar, Pimpri, Chinchwad, Bhosari, etc. established |
| 1961 | Panshet dam bursts and its waters flood the city, destroying most of the older sections, giving a chance for modern town planning concepts to be put into use |
| 1970-80 | Pune emerges as the engineering capital of the country especially in the automotive sector with Telco, Bajaj, Kinetic, Bharat Forge, Alfa Laval, Thermax, etc. expanding their infrastructure |
| 1970-80 | Pune rapidly establishes itself as the Oxford of the East with educational institutions especially in the field of higher education being set up throughout the city |
| 1988 | Pune Festival which coincides with Ganesh Chaturthi launched |
| 1989 | Dehu Road-Katraj bypass is completed, reducing traffic congestion in the inner city |
| 1990 | Sports City comes into existence |
| 1990 | Pune begins to attract foreign capital particularly in the information technology and engineering industries; new businesses like floriculture and food processing begin to take root in and around the city |
| 1998 | Work on the six-lane Pune-Mumbai Super expressway begins |
| 1998 | Pune's first flyover is inaugurated at Dashabhuja Ganapati Chowk, Kothrud |
| 1999 | Municipal Commissioner Arun Bhatia removed from his post because his tough stand on unauthorised constructions |
| 1999 | The five-hundred acre Software development park developed by STPI is inaugurated near Hinjawdi on the Pune-Mumbai bypass. IT giants like Wipro and Infosys set up shop |