Charminar By Jyotsna Maharana 1591 Construction of the Charminar by Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, the fifth ruler of Qutb Shahi dynasty 1892 1614 Started construction of Mecca Masjid By Muhammad Quli Qutb(6th ruler) 1671 Qub Shahi rule end and the Asaf Jahi Comes to rule in Hyderabad 1687 Aurangzeb Captured Hyderbad 1694 Mecca Masjid completed by Auranzeb (1892) 1777 Purani Haveli construction by Asaf Jahi II and completed Asaf Jahi III 1798 Secunderabad Established 1840 Photography came to India 1857 Sepoy Mutiny (Photography is taken by Felice Beato, an Italian who visited India soon after the mutiny) 1857 Chowmahalla Palace construction Started by Salabat Jung and completed by Asaf Jahi V in 1869 1880s 1858 India Comes direct rule under British Crown 1869 Chowmahalla Palace construction completed 1876 British painter Val C.Princsep came to India and then to Hyderabad (No painting found) 1879 Railway came to Hyderabad (1892) 1885 Raja Deen Dayal Became the court photographer of Asaf Jah VI 1889 Clock inserted in the middle of the Charminar(Architrave) 1892 Stereoscopic Image came to India 1908 The Great Musi flood 1916 Kachiguda Railway Station constructed by the Nizam of Hyderabad Asaf jahi VII 1918 Paper currency started with the image of Charminar 1930 Charminar Cigarette Factory with the image of Charminar 1956 Hyderabad merged with Andhra and became Andhra Pradesh 1989 Charminar started appearing in Bollywood movies 2014 Telangana State emerged as 29th state of India