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Today Importance - 30th April

30-Apr-1030

Sultan Mahmud of Ghazvanid died in his capital.

30-Apr-1843

Marathi novelist and editor Ramchandra Vikaji Gunjikar was born.

Today Importance - 29th April

29-Apr-1639

Shah Jahan started the construction of the Red Fort in Delhi by laying the foundation stone. This fort was completed on 13 May 1646.

29-Apr-1848

The famous classicist, eminent painter and great Indian artist Raja Ravi Varma was born in Kilimanoor, Kerala.

Today Importance - 28th April

Today Importance - 28th April

28-Apr-1701

John Norris of England met Aurangzeb at Parnell in South India.

28-Apr-1740

Baji Rao I alias Thorle Baji Rao Peshwa died at Ravarkhedi near Khargon on the Narmada River and was succeeded by his son Balaji Baji Rao.

Today Importance - 30th March

Today Importance - 30th March

30-March-1665

Murasaki died at Purana Fort during the battle with Dilettante.

30-March-1699

Guru Gobind Singh is the tenth Guru of the 'Khalsa Panth' established by the Sikhs.

30-March-1908

Birth of famous film actress Devika Rani.

30-March-1913

India's first Admiral BS Soman was born.

Today Importance - 29th March

Today Importance -  29th March

29-Mar-1561

Akbar invaded Malwa at Sarangpur and defeated Bajbahadar.

29-Mar-1849

Maharaja Duleep Singh abdicated the throne of Punjab which once belonged to his late father Ranjit Singh and was then held by the East India Company. The British captured it after defeating the Sikh forces at Amritsar.

29-Mar-1857

Sepoy Mangal Pandey fired the first shot of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 against the British Empire at Barrackpore barracks near Kolkata. This was the start of the disobedience.

Today Importance - 28th March

Today Importance - 28th March

28-March-1556

Origin of Crop Age (India).

28-March-1645

Sikh Guru Har Gobind Singh passed away.

28-March-1914

As a component of the 'Gadar' development, the Komagata Maru ventured out from Hong Kong to Vancouver with 351 Sikh and 21 Punjabi Muslim young people under the initiative of Sardar Gurjit Singh.

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 Imporyance - 30th May

Today Imporyance - 30th May

30-May-1826

The first Hindi newspaper 'Udanta Martand' was published from Calcutta under the editorship of Pandit Sridhar Shukla.

30-May-1867

Maulana Mohammad Qasim Nanantawi established the famous Islamic educational center 'Dar-ul-Uloom' at Devkampa in Uttar Pradesh.

Today Importance - 29th May

Today Importance - 29th May

Today Importance - 29th May

29-May-1658

 Dara Shukoh was totally crushed by Aurangzeb in the Skirmish of Samugarh close to Agra.

29-May-1906

Terence Hanbury White, novelist (eng. Have My Bones), born in Bombay.

29-May-1915

Social reformer and politician Sita Ram Surajmal Jaju was born in Neemuch Cantt, Madhya Pradesh.

Today Importance - 28th May

Today Importance - 28th May

28-May-1414

Khidr Khan, governor of Lahore, placed Syed Daulat Khan Lodi on the throne of Delhi.

28-May-1883

The great freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar "Veer Savarkar" was born in Bhagur village near Nashik.

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 - 6th December

Today Importance - 6th December

6-December-

1732

Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General of East India Company in India, was born in Churchill village of Oxfordshire in UK.

1756

British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta India.

1857

Raja Nahar Singh arrested by the Showers to kept him first in Motia Mahal and then at Metcalfe House, Delhi.

Today Importance - 30th November

Today Importance - 30th November

30-November-

1759 - Alamgir was murdered by his minister Imad-ul-Mulk.

1858 - Jagdish Chandra Bose, botonist and physics expert, was born at Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh).

1896 - Gandhiji sails for South Africa with wife and children.