Kutti Story about Chennai Part-1 | History of Chennai | Tamil
This is the first video of the series of videos about Chennai/Madras. In this video we talk about the history of Chennai/Madras. Armenians and Portuguese were ruling over Madras before the Britishers took over.
The Portuguese built the infamous Church called the Santhome Chruch.
East India Company built their first factory in Machilipatnam. As they didn't have a lot of support their they decided to move their business to Madarasapattinam(Chennai). Francis Day helped them get the required orders to do so.
This video also discusses about the history of August 22nd being called Chennai Day and the division of Chennai into Black Town(George Town) and White Town.
It also briefly discusses about the important events that occurred in 16th century, 17th century and 18th century. When and the reason behind building Rajaji Hall in Chennai.
Chennai was the only city in India to be hit during the first world war by the Germans. It was called as the Bombardment of Madras. Also the state was initially called Madras State after Independence. Also during the partition of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu in 1953, Andhra Pradesh claimed Chennai to be their capital. Which was then denied ad Andhra Pradesh got Tirupati instead.
In 1996, the then CM changed the name from Madras to Chennai.
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