- 26th September 1919 - RJ Coombs obtained permission to open a Rotary Club in Calcutta and the Club was born at Peliti’s Restaurant in Old Court House Street, Calcutta.
- 1st January 1920 – Club Charter received
- Clubs were the formed in other countries such as Burma, Ceylon, Malay, Java and Siam; Rotary Club of Calcutta became the central piece. Thus our Club got its name “the Old Number One”.
- Rotary Year 1925-26 - Our first Club Roster was published and it continues till date
- Bally Bridge in 1925 - Calcutta Rotarians persuaded the government to construct a motorway in addition to the railway tracks on the bridge.
- 18th August 1925 - Mahatma Gandhi addressed our Club on “ The Economic and Spiritual Value of the Charka”
- 28th December 1925 - We started Annual Children’s Treat to treat deprived children to an “a day of Sunshine” at Great Eastern Hotel, Kolkata. It continues till date and on 2nd December 2018 – our 93rd Children’s Treat was concluded in Nicco Park in which 1500 Children participated from dawn to dusk
- Howrah Bridge 1927 – Our Club members persuaded the government to replace the dilapidated pontoon bridge with a modern steel one.
- Rotary 1962 – 63 First Indian RI President from our Club – President John F Kennedy welcomes RI President Nitish Chandra Laharry from our Club to the White House.
- 1st July 1962 Nitish Chandra Laharry Children’s Library (NCLCL)- West Bengal Government Governor Padmaja Naidu lays the foundation stone of the library.
A few years later Rotary Sadan Vocational Training centre started that presently runs computer courses, spoken english classes, cultural activities and yoga for under-privileged children. We have some 400 students and 14 teachers.
We maintain an Archive section for books,reports, photographs, trophies, mementoes, flags, a visitors’ book and many precious memorabilia. This is repository of Rotary Knowledge.
- 20th November 1986 the Dalai Lama addresses our Club’s Regular Weekly Meeting in the Ball Room of the Oberoi Grand endorsing service with humility.
- Since 1987 - Our club had been undertaking Integrated Village Development at Begumpur RCC, earlier through 3H Grant project, and currently with local funding. This is a flagship project which is still running today. The project was instrumental in introducing broccoli to the city of Calcutta
- Since 1990 Endowment Awards – Our club started an Endowment fund by creating a corpus fund and the interest earned goes to support the award to under privileged and outstanding individuals and organisation supporting them. Approximately 120 awards are given each year.
- 20th April 1992 – R.I. President Rajendra K Saboo laid the foundation stone of Rotary Sadan, which is now an icon of Rotary in the District.
- 9th March 1995 Platinum Jubilee - Day and Night, Double Wicket Cricket Championship at Eden Gardens that raised substantial funds for Rotary Sadan. The winning duo was Sachin and Srinath with Azhar following.
- 1977 – 2001 – Rotary Clinics functioned at Pratapaditya Road, Calcutta
- Since 2000 – Our Club had been undertaking Integrated Village Development project at Bishnupur Uchhal Probaho RCC as flagship project which is still running today in 2019-20.
- Rotary Year 2000-01 - Sevika Sahayika Training for 6 month theory and 6 month practical training for approximately 100 students a year started 19 years ago and it continues.
- 9th September 2004 Centennial Bell – Our club hosted the Centennial Bell Celebration in India.
- 14th November 2004 Flight of Fancy – Our Club took one hundred school children on free joy ride in an airplane over Calcutta.
- 2005 -18 Low Cost Toilets and Bore Wells– Our Club had been undertaking Water and Sanitation projects with low cost toilets and bore well pumps for approximately 8000 beneficiaries daily .
- 2010 – 18: Our club in association with Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Science completed over 500 children heart surgeries and some adult surgeries too.
- 2009-2019 Pay and Use Toilets – We have installed 3 Pay and Use toilets serving some 5000 people daily.
- 2009-2018 Children Immunisation - Our Club have undertaken many projects immunising some 75,000 children
- Since 2009- 18 Sundarbans Delta of Ganges - we undertook many infrastructural development and health projects serving thousands of villagers
- November 2011 our Club advocated changes on Indian Railways sanitation facilities inside railway coaches with Control Discharge Toilet System (CDTS) and bio toilets.
- 2014 -18 Public Water Kiosks – We have installed 3 safe drinking public water serving thousands of people daily .
- 2014 -18 Eye Retinal Disorder treatment project – We have equipped and furnished three entire wards at Lokeswarananda Eye Hospital in Purulia serving over 100 patients a day, over and above thousands of routine cataract surgeries.
- 2014-2018 School projects – Our Club supported over 20 schools with construction/renovation of school building, school hostel, schoolbooks, teachers’ salaries , meals, computers, rainwater harvesting and safe drinking water, toilets etc . First ever Rotary Hostel is under construction.
- 2016-2018 – Techno Global Hospital Rotary Ward giving free treatment to over 1000 patients year, and Mercy Hospital Rotary operation theatres (2) diagnosingand treating over 25,000 patients a year, a night shelter Institute of Child Heath giving accommodation to over 100 patient parties a day.
- Other major projects – We supported Park Nursing Home and Ramakrishna Seva Sadan with acquisition of equipment.