Dhaka

City · c. 1973 CE · in South Asia

Capital of People's Republic of Bangladesh (1973–today).

Abu Dhabi (c. 1973 CE): Capital of United Arab Emirates (1973–today).
Suva (c. 1973 CE): Capital of Republic of Fiji (1973–today).
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (c. 1972 CE): Capital of Sri Lanka (1972–today).
Belmopan (1970 CE): Capital of Belize (1983–today).
Port of Spain (c. 1976 CE): Capital of Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (1976–today).
Victoria (c. 1976 CE): Capital of Seychelles (1976–today).
Lobamba (c. 1969 CE): Capital of Eswatini (1969–today).
Aden (c. 1969 CE): Capital of People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (1969–1989), Republic of Yemen (1990–1990).
Zomba (c. 1967 CE): Capital of Malawi (1967–1975).
Roseau (c. 1979 CE): Capital of Commonwealth of Dominica (1979–today).

Around the same time and place

British Raj (1858–1947 CE): After the 1857 rebellion the British Crown took direct rule of India from the East India Company, governing until independence in 1947.
Independence of India (1947 CE): India became independent on 15 August 1947, with Jawaharlal Nehru as its first prime minister.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861 CE – 1941 CE): Bengali poet, writer and composer, in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 CE – 1964 CE): Leader in the independence movement and first prime minister of India, serving from 1947 until his death.
Constitution of India (1950 CE): India's constitution, drafted by a committee chaired by B. R. Ambedkar, came into force on 26 January 1950, making India a republic.
First ascent of Mount Everest (1953 CE): Members of the British expedition, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa from Nepal, reached the summit of Mount Everest on 29 May 1953, the first confirmed ascent.
Battle of Dien Bien Phu (1954 CE): Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp besieged and captured the French garrison at Dien Biên Phu in May 1954, ending French rule in Indochina.
1970 Bhola cyclone (1970 CE): Tropical cyclone that struck East Pakistan in November 1970, killing an estimated 300,000 to 500,000 people, one of the deadliest on record.