31-Jan-1561
Akbar's Wazir-e-Azzam 'Bairam Khan' killed the Afghan assassin Mubarak Khan Lohani (whose father Bairam Khan had been killed) at Paten in Gujarat in the Battle of Machhiwara.
31-Jan-1896
Bhartiya Jnanpith awardee and Kannada poet Dattatray Ramachandra was born in Bander.
31-Jan-1903
SMTP Sharda Bhimrao Dewan, the Educationist, is born.
28-Jan-1846
The British forcibly separated Kashmir from the Sikhs and sold it to the Maharaja of Jammu for £100,000 after the Battle of Alwal.
28-Jan-1853
The great writer and politician Jose Marti was born in Cuba.
28-Jan-1865
The great heroic freedom fighter, social reformer, humanitarian and lawyer Lala Lajpat Roy 'Punjab Keshri' was born in Dhudike village of Ferozepur district of Punjab.
28-Jan-1877
Revolutionary journalist Pulin Bihari Das passed away.
28-Jan-1894
Famous Hindi writer Anandibai Prabhakar Jayavant was born in Baroda.
28-Jan-1895
Born to Shankarao Dattatraya Dev, veteran Congress leader, Gandhian and Sarvodaya leader.
28-Jan-1898
Nivedita, an Irish woman of Scottish descent, came to India.
28-Jan-1900
General K.M. Cariappa Sanivara, the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, was born in Santhai (Coorg).
28-Jan-1902
Gandhi left for Rangoon. Stayed with Gokhal in Calcutta for a month. Returned to Rajkot and sat for practice.
28-Jan-1911
The famous Hope Diamond, once worn by Marie Antoinette, was purchased tonight by Ned McLean, son of John McLean, for over $300,000. Mrs McLean wore it as a head ornament, guarded by an ex-Secret Service man, guarded by two private detectives. The size of a walnut and an intense blue color, this 44.5 carat stone hails from India. Its proprietors included Louis XIV, Louis XVI and a London financier named Trust. A sinister history of misfortune, madness and violent death is associated with the unique gem.
28-Jan-1925
Birth of Raja Ramanna, fourth chairman of Atomic Energy Commission of India.
28-Jan-1933
India read a four-and-a-half-page note in Cambridge at the Waldorf Hotel in London.
28-Jan-1937
Birth of famous singer Suman Kalyanpurkar.
28-Jan-1950
The Supreme Court of India was inaugurated.
28-Jan-1951
The Kashmir issue was brought up in the UN Security Board.
28-Jan-1961
Laying foundation stone of HMT's first factory for wristwatches in Bangalore
28-Jan-1976
Irapalli Prasanna took 8-76 to defeat New Zealand at Eden Park.
28-Jan-1984
Dozens of Sikh militants have been arrested after three people were killed and 31 injured in a grenade attack by terrorists in India's restive Punjab state.
28-Jan-1984
Renowned drama and film producer, director and actor Sohrab Mehrwanji Modi passed away.
28-Jan-1992
Magsaysay Award winner Umanath Bachaspati dies.
28-Jan-1996
Former Congress First President Deb Kant Barua passed away at the age of 82 in New Delhi.
28-Jan-1998
All 26 accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case have been sentenced to death. A designated judge of the TADA court in Chennai convicted him.
28-Jan-1999
Central Zone won the Deodhar Trophy by defeating South in their final at Agartala.
28-Jan-2000
Indian Junior Cricket Team won the Youth Cricket World Cup.
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26-January-1876
The railway route started between Mumbai and Calcutta.
26-January-1882
The telephone line started working between Mumbai and Calcutta.
26-January-1893
Srijiva Nyayatirtha Bhattacharya, a famous writer and educationist, was born in Bhatpara, West Bengal.
18-January-1842
Mahadev Govinda was born at Ranade. He was the first chief architect of the Bombay Society.
18-January-1906
Criminal lawyer and sportsperson Nirupam Chandra Ganguly was born in Bhagalpur.
18-January-1913
Gandhi mentioned in "Indian Opinion" that he was likely to return to India in the middle of the year.
17-Jan-1601
After eight months of siege, Akbar entered Asirgarh, one of the strongest forts in India.
17-Jan-1771
Rao Gobind Patwardhan Mirajkar died before the Peshwa.
17-Jan-1833
William Rush, Indian sculptor (Spirit of the Schuylkill) died.
16-Jan-1620
King Amarsingha I of the Guhilot dynasty of the Rajput dynasty of Mewar died.
16-Jan-1681
Sambhaji was crowned as the successor of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in a ceremony held at Raigarh Fort.
16-Jan-1818
The Rana of Udaipur made an agreement with the British to protect Mewar.
13-Jan-1709
Bahadur Shah first defeated his brother Kam Baksh at Hyderabad as the Mughal emperor consolidated his position.
13-Jan-1709
The Marathas defeated the British in the Battle of Bhadgaon.
13-January-1849
The Sikhs were again defeated at Chillianwala in India but the British suffered heavy losses.
12-Jan-1399
Birth of Krittivas, author of Ramayana in Bengali language.
12-Jan-1708
Shahu was crowned as the Maratha ruler. Sambhaji's son Shahu
entered Satara and released Aurangzeb's son Azam the previous year.
12-Jan-1757
Portuguese captain Eyre Kut was captured at Bandel.
11-Jan-1613
Emperor Jahangir issued a proclamation allowing the East
India Company to set up a factory in Surat. Also, the main English plant was
laid out under Thomas Aldworth.
11-Jan-1858
Birth of famous Hindi poet Sridhar Pathak.
11-Jan-1859
Governor General and Viceroy Lord Curzon is born.
10-Jan-1616
Sir Thomas Roe, the first British ambassador, presented his
credentials to Emperor Jahangir at Ajmer.
10-Jan-1693
Job Charnock, the founder of Calcutta, died and was buried
in the same city.
10-January-1818
The last battle between the Marathas and the Company was fought at Rampura.
6-January-1664
Chhatrapati Shivaji attacked Surat.
6-January-1818
The Holkar dominions in India were merged with the Rajput kingdoms and came under British protection.
6-January-1832
Publication of the 'Darpan' newspaper started.
6-January-1842
4,500 British and Indian soldiers left Kabul.
3-January-1831
Famous social worker Savitribai Phule was born in Naigaon, Satara district of Maharashtra.
3-January-1836
Munshi Naval Kishore was born as the son of Zamindar Yamuna Prasad Bhargava of Aligarh and a great scholar, educationist, nationalist, social worker and a leading industrialist. He was the founder of Nabalkishore Press, Lucknow (1858), which published 2612 books detailing Hindi literature. He was the publisher of Awadhi magazine of Asia.
2-January-1754
Robert Clive again invaded and captured Calcutta from Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah.
2-January-1757
After the Battle of Palashi, Clive defeated Siraj-ud-daulah, the British Nawab of Bengal, Mir Jafar and captured Calcutta, while the Nawab of Bengal used the "Black Hole" to trap the British. captive
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