Today Importance - 24th June

Today Importance - 24th June

24-June-1763

For the second time the East India Company under the leadership of Major Adams captured Murshidabad and Mir Zafar was declared the king.

24-June-1869

Hari Chapekar Damodar was practically born. He was the primary fear monger of India.

24-June-1885

Freedom fighter and leader of Akali Dal Master Tara Singh was born in Hariyal village of Rawalpindi district.

24-June-1897

Padma Shri Pandit Omkarnath Tagore, the famous music director of the Gwalior Gharana, was born in Gujarat.

Today Importance - 17th June

Today Importance - 17th June 

17-Jun-1674

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's mother Jijabai passed away.

17-Jun-1756

Nawab Sira-ud-Daula attacked Calcutta with 50,000 troops and captured it on 21 June.

17-Jun-1824

Bureau of Indian Affairs established.

17-Jun-1839

Birth of Master William Bentinck, Lead representative General of India.

Today Importance - 10th June

Today Importance - 10th June

10-Jun-1246

King Alauddin Masud Shah of Delhi was removed.

10-Jun-1832

Edwin Arnold, English essayist (Light of India), is conceived.

10-Jun-1833

Azad Muhammad Jussain, Urdu poet and educationist, is born.

10-Jun-1888

Birth of revolutionary Balraj Bhalla.

10-Jun-1890

Sunday was introduced as a weekend holiday.

Today Importance - 30th June

Today Importance - 30th June

Today Importance - 30th June

30-June-1755

Jayappa Shinde, son of Ranoji Shinde, was murdered.

30-June-1799

Krishnaraja Bodiyar was again declared the king of Mysore.

30-June-1817

Veteran leader and industrialist Dadabhai Navroji passed away.

Today Importance -29th June

Today Importance -29th June 

Today Importance -29th June 

29-Jun-1533

Chaitanya Maha Prabhu, a Vaishnava saint, passed away. His body is in Puri. (9/7 or 29/6).

29-Jun-1757

Mir Zafar ascended the throne from Murshidabad as the Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa.

29-Jun-1857

Battle of Chinhat (Indian rebels led by Barkat Ahmad defeated the British).

Today Importance - 28th June

Today Importance - 28th June

Today Importance - 28th June

28-June-1787

Sir Henry GW Smith, leader of the British-Indian army, was born.

28-June-1857

Nana Sahib declared himself Peshwa and gave a call in Bithoor for the complete end of British power in India.

Today Importance - 27th June

Today Importance - 27th June 

Today Importance - 27th June

27-Jun-1838

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (Chattopadhyay), noted novelist, "father of modern Indian fiction" and author of the national anthem 'Bande Mataram', was born in Katalpara near Naihati in West Bengal. 'Anandmath' and 'Kapal Kundala' are some of his compositions. He was among the first two Bengali graduates.

27-Jun-1839

Maharaja Ranjit Singh, ruler of Punjab and spiritual leader of the Sikh community, has died.

27-Jun-1894

Chaganbapa (Chaganlal Karamshi Parekh), great social worker, is born.

Today Importance - 26th June

Today Importance - 26th June

1243 Battle of Kosse Dagh: Mongols led by Baizu defeat the Seljuk army of Sultan Kaykhusru II during a Mongol invasion of northeastern Turkey

According to a 1284 Lüneburg manuscript, a piper led Hamelin's 130 children.

1409 The Council of Pisa elects Petros Filarghi as the third Pope: Alexander V.

1483 Duke of Gloucester succeeds King Richard III of England after Parliament declares Edward V illegitimate

1498 Toothbrush invented in China using pig hair

Today Importance - 25th June

Today Importance - 25th June

Today Importance - 25th June

25-Jun-1529

After conquering Bengal, Babur reached his capital Agra.

25-Jun-1658

Sixth Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb arrested his father Shah Jahan and imprisoned him in Agra Fort.

25-Jun-1880

Syed Muhammad Jamin Ali, great educationist, poet, editor, professor, author and founding member of Hindustani Academy, was born in Mustafabad village in Rae Bareli district of Uttar Pradesh.

Today Importance - 23th June

Today Importance - 23th June

Today Importance - 23th June

23-June-1661

Princess Catherine of Portugal wed King of England Charles II. Portugal gave island of Mumbai to England as present. The British got Bombay as dowry from Portugal.

23-June-1757

The Battle of Plassey started between Robert Clive, incharge of British army, and Nawab of Bengal, Siraj -Ud -Daula. In this battle Robert Clive won control of Bengal.

23-June-1761

Balaji Bajirao (Nanasaheb), third peshwa, died at Pune, after losing in the Third Battle of Panipat on 12 June.

Today Importance - 22th June

Today  Importance - 22th June

Today  Importance - 22th June

22-June-1555

Humayun crossed the Indus river and captured Lahore and removed Sikandar Suri from the throne of Delhi.

22-June-1880

Neelmani Phukon, the best friendly reformer of Assam, famous essayist, artist, supervisor, writer and legal advisor, was brought into the world in Dibrugarh, Assam.

22-June-1897

Chapekar's siblings Damodar and Balakrishna shot English official Rand in Pune. This incident played a very important role in the revolutionary freedom fighter.

Today Importance - 21st June

Today Importance - 21st June

Today Importance - 21st June

21-Jun-1576

Mughal forces defeated Rana Pratap Singh in the Battle of Headlight.

21-Jun-1814

Gilbert Elliot Minto, Governor General of the East India Company, died.

21-Jun-1862

Gyanendra Mohan Tagore was the first Indian to graduate from Lincoln's Inn University with the degree of Barrister-at-Law.

Today Importance - 20th June

Today Importance - 20th June

1155 Pope Adrian IV crowns Frederick I Barbarossa Holy Roman Emperor at St Peter's Basilica, Rome

1178 Five monks at Canterbury report something exploding on the moon shortly after sunset (only known observation)

1264 The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castle Dermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature

1316 Peace of Fexhe signed by Prince-Bishop Adolph II of Mark, limiting his powers

1538 Truce of Nice signed between Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and French King Francis I ending the Italian War of 1536-38

1542 Crown of Ireland Act 1542 passed by the Parliament of Ireland, gives English King Henry VIII the title "King of Ireland"

1574 Polish King Hendrik of Anjou secretly leaves Poland

1580 States of Utrecht forbid Catholic worship

1629 Sea battle at Dungeness: Piet Heyn beats the Dunkirkers, commerce raiders in the service of the Spanish Monarchy

Today Importance - 19th June

Today Importance - 19th June

Today Importance - 19th June 

19-Jun-1747

Nadir Shah passed away.

19-Jun-1871

Madhavrao was born in Sapre.

19-Jun-1877

Pandurang Chimnaji Patil, a famous agriculturist of Maharashtra, was born.

Today Importance - 18th June

Today Importance - 18th June 

Today Importance - 18th June 

18-Jun-1633

Konkani language lexicographer and Jesuit priest Revairu Diogu passed away.

18-Jun-1658

Aurangzeb figured out how to catch the stronghold of Agra and later captured his dad Head Shah Jahan.

18-Jun-1858

Rani Lakshmi Bai of Jhansi achieved heroism while fighting British troops on the battlefield near Gwalior.

Today Importance - 16th June

Today Importance - 16th June

Today Importance - 16th June

16-Jun-1859

Anandaram Dhekial Phukun, the father of modern Assamese poetry and essays, has passed away.

16-Jun-1893

Karumuthu Thiagarajan Chettiar, social extremist and industrialist, was brought into the world in Athikkadu Thekkur, Tamil Nadu.

Today Importance - 15th June

Today Importance - 15th June

Today Importance - 15th June

15-Jun-1659

Aurangzeb was declared Emperor of Delhi.

15-Jun-1899

Modern Indian sculptor and painter Roy Chowdhury Deviprasad was born.

15-Jun-1907

Freedom fighter and socialist Narayan Ganesh Gore was born in Hindale (Maharashtra).

Today Importance - 14th June

Today Importance - 14th June

Today Importance - 14th June

14-Jun-1880

Birth of rural scientist Satish Chandra Dasgupta.

14-Jun-1886

An orphanage for little girls has been established.

14-Jun-1905

Mr. Famous veteran Maharashtrian classical singer Hirabai Barodekar is born.

Today Importance - 13th June

Today Importance - 13th June

13-Jun-1290

Jalaluddin Feroze Khilji founded the Khilji dynasty in Delhi.

13-Jun-1290

Firuz Shah ascended the throne of Delhi and styled himself Sultan Jalaluddin Khilji.

13-Jun-1731

The Swedish East India Company was formed. King Frederik of Sweden granted the company a charter for 15 years.

Today Importance 12th June

Today Importance 12th June

1381 Peasants' Revolt: In England, rebels reach Blackheath

1442 King Alfonso V of Aragon captures Naples.

1458 Magdalen College, Oxford, founded by William Wainfleet, Bishop of Winchester

1523 Frisian rebel leader Janko Duvama is arrested

1534 Turkish admiral Chairdin "Barbarossa" allows Giulia Gonzaga to be kidnapped and plundered in Naples.

1552 Dutch defenders attack Verdun