Today Importance - 8th December

Today Importance - 8th December

8-Dec

1857

Mohsini of Delhi was hanged in jail.

1875

Birth of the great leader Tej Bahadur Sapru.

1879

The famous revolutionary Jatindranath Mukhopadhyay (Jatin Bagha) was born in Jessore.

Today Importance - 26th December

Today Importance - 26th December

26-Dec-1530

Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur Shah, the founder of the Mughal dynasty, died at Dholpur at the age of 48.

26-December-1801

According to the Charter, the Supreme Court consisted of Bengal and Madras.

26-December-1831

Henry Louis Vivian Derozio passed away.

Today Importance - 31st December

Today Importance - 31st December

31-Dec-1600

The Royal Charter created the East India Company, beginning a process that would eventually bring India under British rule.

31-Dec-1600

Queen Elizabeth I granted her royal charter to 218 knights and merchants of the City of London who formed the East India Company. The initiative failed to achieve its stated objectives – it had little effect on Dutch control of the spice trade and was unable to establish a permanent outpost in the East Indies.

Today Importance - 30th December

Today Importance - 30th December

30-December-1803

The East India Company captured Dihli, Agra and Bharuch.

30-December-1865

Rudyard Kipling, famous English writer and author (Jungle Book, Ganga Din-Nobel 1907), was born in Bombay.

Today Importance - 29th December

Today Importance - 29th December

29-December-1530

Babur's eldest son Humayun sat on the throne. Of course, he was a participant.

29-December-1844

Welcome. Banerjee, the first president of the Indian National Congress, was born in Kidarpur, Kolkata.

Today Importance - 28th December

Today Importance - 28th December

28-Dec-1688

The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb destroyed all the temples (about 1,000) in Mathura. (During his reign, Muslim rulers destroyed about 60,000 Hindu temples across India, built 3,000 mosques).

28-December-1883

The Bengali political party under the leadership of Surendra Nath Banerjee organized a national conference called "Bharat Sabha".

Today Importance Day - 17th December

Today Importance Day - 17th December

17-December-1645

Noorjahan Begum passed away.

17-December-1715

Band Bahadur Bairagi surrendered to the Mughal army at Gurdaspur in Farrukhsia.

Today Importance - 7th December

Today Importance - 7th December

7-December-

1782

Mysore warrior Hyder Ali died in a camp near Chitto.

1825

The first steam engine ship "Enterprise" reached Calcutta.

1856

First Hindu widow married formally.

Today Importance - 27th December

Today Importance - 27th December

27-Dec-1797

Mirza "Ghalib" Asad Ullah Beg Khan alias Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan, a prominent Urdu and Persian language poet, popularly known as Ghalib and his Asad, was born in Agra.

27-Dec-1898

Former Union Minister and Agriculture Expert Shamrao Deshmukh was born.

Today Importance - 25th December

Today Importance - 25th December

25th December in Indian History - What is India Today 25th December in History?

25 December Famous Birthdays in India - Famous people whose birthday is 25 December on this day in history

1959 – Ramdas Bandhu Atwale, Indian politician and social activist.

1963 – Raju Srivastava, Indian comedian.

Today Importance - 24th December

Today Importance - 24th December

December 24 in Indian History - India Today What is December 24 in History?

24 December Famous Birthdays in India - Famous People in History Whose Birthday is on 24 December

1956 - Anil Kapoor is an Indian actor and producer who has appeared in over a hundred Hindi films.

1981 - Anu Mohanty is an Indian actor, film producer, television personality, and politician.

Today Importance - 18th December

Today Importance - 18th December

18-Dec-1398 : Amir Timur captured Delhi.

18-Dec-1756 : Freedom fighter and social reformer Guru Ghasidas was born in Girod, a small village of Sona Khan.

18-Dec-1906 : Gandhi returned to South Africa.

Today Importance - 19th December

Today Importance - 19th December

19-Dec-1857

The trial of Raja Nahar Singh, who was arrested and later lodged at Metcalf House, began at 1100 hours in Delhi on Saturday.

19-Dec-1860

Lord Dalhousie, Governor General of India (1848-1856), dies.

19-Dec-1917

Birth of Ashok Nath Banerjee, Governor of Karnataka.

Today Imporatance - 20th December

Today Imporatance - 20th December

20-Dec-1686 : After a conflict with the Mughal soldiers, Zub Charnak left Hooghly and settled in Sutnati.

20-December-1757 : Ghadi became the Governor of Bengal.

20-December-1850 : Birth of social reformer and religious leader Atma Dev.

Today Importance - 21st December

Today Importance - 21st December

December 21st in Indian History - India Today What is December 21st in History?

21st December Famous Birthdays in India - Famous People in History Who Have Birthdays on 21st December

1963 - Govinda, Indian actor, actress, dancer and former politician.

1973-Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri, Indian director, writer, author and politician.

Today Importance - 23th December

Today Importance - 23th December

23rd December in Indian History - What is India Today 23rd December in History?

23rd December Famous Birthdays in India - Famous people whose birthdays are on 23rd December on this day in history

1942 – Arun Bali, Indian actor who appeared in many films and television series.

1948 – Pandit Chandra Nath Shastri, a leading tabla player and musician. 1952 – Kummanam Rajasekharan, Indian politician and former Governor of Mizoram.

Today Importance - 22th December

Today Importance - 22th December

22nd December in Indian History – What is India Today 22nd December in History?

22nd December Famous Birthdays in India - Famous people whose birthdays fall on 22nd December on this day in history

1935 - Tarini Desai, nouvelliste gujarati du Gujarat, na India.

1938 – Manoj Mitra, Indian theatre, film and television actor, director and playwright.

1967 – Johar Ali Khan, Indian classical violinist.

1971 – Ajink DY Patil, Indian academic and economist.

Today Importance -11th November

Today Importance -11th December

11-December-1687

Madras' first presidency chartered with a Mayor s court as a Municipal Corporation.

1780

Goddard General, Bassein fort was captured near Bombay.

1783

Peshwa Raghobadada, who ruled upto Atak, passed away.

Today Importance - 10th December

Today Importance - 10th December

10-December-

1857

Veer Narayan Singh organised a small group and had an encounter with British army. He was charged treason and sentenced to death. He was executed publicly.

1870

Jadhunath Sarkar, history researcher, was born.

1878

Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, great social reformer, ardent patriot, incisive thinker and eminent literateur was born at Hosur in Tamil Nadu. He was the first Indian Governor General of independent India and popularly known as 'Rajaji'.

Today Importance - 9th December

Today Importance - 9th December

9-December-

1484

Surdas (1483-1563), blind Hindi bard and singer of Agra whose hymns to Krishna are compiled in the 'Sursagar', was born in Sihi village near Delhi.

1658

Dutch troops occupy harbour city Quilon (Coilan), India.

1761

Maharani Tarabai of Pune, the regent of Maratha empire of India from 1700 until 1708, died at Satara. She was the queen of Chhatrapati Rajaram Bhosale and daughter-in-law of the empire's founder Shivaji and mother of Shivaji II. She is acclaimed for her role in keeping alive the resistance against Mughal occupation of Maratha territories after the death of her spouse, and acted as regent during the minority of her son.