Keshub Chunder Sen visited Dhaka in 1865 and with the growing influence of the Brahmo Samaj, persecution increased manifold.
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visited Dhaka the same year.
A strategic partnership agreement between Bangladesh and the US was signed in 2012, when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Dhaka.
The Sri Lankan team on their way back home from Australia visited Dhaka in March 1985.
In 1986 a Soviet special envoy visited Dhaka, and later the Bangladeshi foreign minister visited Moscow.
Subsequently, Keshub Chunder Sen visited Dhaka in 1865 and virtually set the place on fire.
Pope Paul VI announced that he would visit Dhaka during a visit to the Far East and urged people to pray for the victims of the disaster.
Pope John Paul II visited Dhaka in November 1986.
Sebastien Manrique, a Portuguese missionary and traveller, visited Dhaka in September 1640 and spent about 27 days around the area.
He intended to visit Allahabad, Lahore, Jaipur, Lucknow, Dhaka and Kashmir.
