Historical Events
1311-04-24 – Gen Malik
Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India
1329-08-09 – Quilon the
first Indian Diocese was erected by Pope John XXII and Jordanus was appointed
the first Bishop
1459-05-12 – Sun City
India founded by Rao Jodhpur
1497-07-08 – Vasco da
Gama departs for trip to India
1498-05-20 – Portuguese
explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calcutta India
1500-03-09 – Pedro Cabral
departs with 13 ships to India
1502-02-12 – Vasco da
Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal on his second voyage to India.
1509-02-02 – The Battle of Diu takes place near Diu, India, between Portugal and Turkey.
1509-02-03 – The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India.
1509-02-02 – The Battle of Diu takes place near Diu, India, between Portugal and Turkey.
1509-02-03 – The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India.
1542-05-06 – Francis
Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
1556-03-28 – Origin of
Fasli Era (India)
1565-01-25 – Battle at
Talikota India: Moslems destroy Vijayanagar’s army
1575-03-03 – Indian
Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi.
1597-08-20 – 1st Dutch East India Company ships returned from Far East
1597-08-20 – 1st Dutch East India Company ships returned from Far East
1600-12-31 – British East
India Company chartered
1601-02-13 – John
Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London
1602-03-20 – United Dutch
East Indian Company (VOC) forms
1608-08-24 – 1st English convoy
lands at Surat India
1609-03-25 – Henry Hudson
embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Co
1612-08-29 – Battle at
Surat India: English fleet beats Portuguese
1614-04-05 – American
Indian princess Pocahontas, daughter of chief Powhatan marries English colonist
John Rolfe
1621-06-03 – Dutch West
India Company receives charter for “New Netherlands” (NY)
1622-03-22 – 1st American
Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites Jamestown Virginia, 347 slain
1633-10-22 – Ming dynasty
fight with Dutch East India Company that Battle of southern Fujian sea (1633),
Ming dynasty won great victory.
1639-08-22 – Madras (now
Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of
land bought from local Nayak rulers.
1641-01-14 – United East
Indian Company conquerors city of Malakka, 7,000 killed
1641-08-26 – West India
Company conquerors Sao Paulo de Loanda, Angola
1643-12-25 – Christmas
Island founded and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Ship
Company vessel, the Royal Mary.
1658-12-09 – Dutch troops
occupy harbor city Quilon (Coilan) India
1668-03-26 – England
takes control of Bombay India
1668-03-27 – English king
Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company
1690-02-08 – French &
Indian troops set Schenectady settlement NY on fire
1690-08-24 – Job Charnock
founds Calcutta India
1692-02-29 – Sarah Good
& Tituba, an Indian servant, accused of witchcraft, Salem
1699-04-14 – Khalsa:
Birth of Khalsa, the brotherhood of the Sikh religion, in Northern India in
accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.
1733-05-29 – The right of
Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
1737-10-07 – 40 foot
waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India)
1737-10-11 – Earthquake
kills 300,000 and destroys half of Calcutta India
1739-02-24 – Battle of
Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal
emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
1739-03-20 – Nadir Shah
occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock
Throne.
1751-08-31 – English
troops under sir Robert Clive occupy Arcot India
1752-06-09 – French army
surrenders to the English in Trichinopoly India
1755-04-02 – Commodore
William James captures the pirate fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of
India.
1755-07-09 – Brit Gen E
Braddock mortally wounded during French & Indian War
1756-05-17 – Britain
declares war on France (7 Years’ or French & Indian War)
1756-06-20 – 146 Brit
soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most die
1756-06-20 – India rebels
defeat Calcutta on British army
1756-09-08 – French and
Indian War: Kittanning Expedition.
1756-12-06 – British
troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta India
1757-01-02 – British
troops occupy Calcutta India
1757-11-05 – Battle at
Rossbach (7 year war/French & Indian War)
1758-05-21 – Mary
Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French
and Indian War.
1759-04-08 – British
troops chase French out of Masulipatam India
1760-01-22 – Battle at
Wandewash India: British troops beat French
1761-01-07 – Battle at
Panipat India: Afghan army beats Mahratten
1761-01-16 – The British
capture Pondicherry, India from the French.
1764-11-09 – Mary
Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned
over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
1767-09-28 – Gentlemen 17
forbid private slave transport India to Cape of Good Hope
1772-02-12 – Yves de
Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India
1773-10-14 – American
Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom’s East India Company tea ships’ cargo are
burned at Annapolis, Maryland.
1783-04-09 – Tippu Sahib
drives out English from Bednore India
1786-02-24 – Charles
Cornwallis appointed governor-general of India
1795-03-11 – Battle at
Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols
1796-04-13 – 1st elephant
arrives in US from India
1798-09-01 – England
signs treaty with nizam of Hyderabad, India
1800-07-10 – The British
Indian Government establishes the Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi
and other vernaculars of sub continent.
1803-02-27 – Great fire
in Bombay, India
1803-09-23 – Battle of
Assaye-British-Indian forces beat Maratha Army
1806-07-10 – The Vellore
Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British
East India Company.
1818-06-03 – Maratha Wars
between British & Maratha Confederacy in India ends
1829-12-04 – Britain
abolished “suttee” in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband’s
funeral pyre
1835-02-24 – Siwinowe
Kesibwi (Shawnee Sun) is 1st Indian lang monthly mag
1838-11-03 – The Times of
India, the world’s largest circulated English language daily broadsheet
newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
1839-01-10 – Tea from
India 1st arrives in UK
1839-01-19 – Aden
conquered by British East India Company
1839-11-25 – A cyclone
slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city
of Coringa (never to be entirely rebuilt again). The storm wave sweeps inland,
taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths
result from the disaster.
1842-01-06 – 4,500
British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India
1846-01-28 – Battle of
Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab (India)
1846-02-10 – British
defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India
1846-02-16 – Battle of
Sobraon ends 1st Sikh War in India
1849-03-29 – Britain
formally annexs Punjab after defeat of Sikhs in India
1851-12-22 – The first
freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.
1853-04-16 – The first
passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
1857-05-10 – Indian Mutiny begins with revolt of Sepoys of Meerut
1857-05-10 – Indian Mutiny begins with revolt of Sepoys of Meerut
1858-07-28 – William
Herschel of the Indian Civil Service in India
1858-08-02 – Govt of
India transferred from East India Company to Crown
1859-02-10 – Gen Horsford
defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny
1865-11-11 – Treaty of
Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to
the British East India Company.
1866-06-11 – The
Allahabad High Court (then Agra High Court) is established in India.
1868-04-13 – Abyssinian
War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala.
1870-09-08 – Neth &
Engl sign “Koelietraktaat” Br-Indian contract work in Suriname
1876-10-31 – A monster
cyclone ravages India, resulting in over 200,000 human deaths.
1877-01-01 – England’s
Queen Victoria proclaimed empress of India
1879-05-14 – The first
group of 463 Indian indentured labourers arrive in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
1882-06-06 – Cyclone in
Arabian Sea (Bombay India) drowns 100,000
1884-09-26 – Suriname
army shoots on British-Indian contract workers, 7 killed
1888-04-20 – 246 reported
killed by hail in Moradabad, India
1888-12-18 – Richard
Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Mesa
Verde.
1889-03-23 – The
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was established by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in
Qadian India.
1891-09-18 – Harriet
Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief
1892-07-06 – Dadabhai
Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
1897-06-12 – Possibly
most severe quake in history strikes Assam India, shock waves felt over an area
size of Europe (negligible death toll)
1905-04-04 – Earthquake
in Kangra India, kills 20,000
1905-10-16 – The
Partition of Bengal (India) occurred.
1906-12-30 – The All
India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire,
which later laid down the foundations of Pakistan.
1907-05-01 – Indian Mine
Laws passes (concessions from Neth-Indies)
1911-02-18 – The first
official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when
Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 km
away.
1911-03-25 – L D
Swamikannu publishes “Manual of Indian Chronology” in Bombay
1911-12-12 – Delhi
replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.
1913-11-06 – Mohandas K
Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in S Africa
1914-06-30 – Mahatma
Gandhi’s 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa
1916-05-13 – 1st
observance of Indian (Native American) Day
1916-05-24 – Last
British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname
1917-03-11 – World War I:
Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
1918-05-18 – Neth Indian Volksraad installed in Batavia
1918-05-18 – Neth Indian Volksraad installed in Batavia
1919-04-13 – Amritsar
Massacre-British Army fires on nationalist rioters in India
1919-04-13 – British
forces kill 100s of Indian Nationalists (Amritsar Massacre)
1919-08-13 – British
troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350
1919-09-10 – Indian’s Ray
Caldwell no-hits Yankees 3-0
1920-03-23 – Perserikatan
Communist of India (PKI) political party forms
1920-10-10 – Indian Bill
Wambsganns makes 1st unassisted World Series triple play
1920-10-10 – Indian’s
Elmer Smith hits 1st World Series grand slam
1922-03-18 – Brit
magistrates in India sentence Gandhi to 6 years for disobedience
1925-12-26 – The
Communist Party of India is founded.
1926-08-28 – Indian Emil
Levsen pitches complete doubleheader victory (Red Sox)
1926-12-28 – Imperial
Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service
1928-08-30 – Mr. Jawaharlal
Nehru requests independence of India
1929-01-06 – Mother
Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India’s poorest and
diseased people.
1929-01-26 – Indian
National Congress proclaims goal for India’s independence
1929-04-08 – Indian
Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and
Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
1929-04-24 – 1st non-stop
England to India flight takes-off
1929-04-26 – 1st non-stop
England to India flight lands
1930-03-08 – Mahatma
Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India
1931-02-10 – New Delhi
becomes capital of India
1931-03-23 – Bhagat
Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev embrace the gallows during the Indian struggle for
independence. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused.
1932-10-08 – The Indian
Air Force is established.
1932-10-15 – Tata
Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
1933-01-28 – The name
Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian
Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking
independence.
1933-05-08 – Mohandas
Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against British oppression in India.
1934-01-15 – 8.4
earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die
1934-04-07 – In India, Mahatma
Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience
1934-08-02 – William
Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour
1936-02-08 – Pandit
Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party
1936-04-01 – Orissa
constituted a province of British India
1938-10-02 – Indian Bob
Feller strikes out record 18 Tigers (Chester Laabs 5 times)
1938-11-16 – K B Regiment
refuses round-table conference in East-India
1939-03-03 – In Mumbai,
Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest of the autocratic rule in India.
1939-03-10 – 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad India
1939-03-10 – 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad India
1939-04-13 – In India,
the Hindustani Lal Sena (Indian Red Army) is formed and vows to engage in armed
struggle against the British.
1939-05-03 – The All
India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
1940-03-23 –
All-India-Moslem League calls for a Moslem homeland
1940-03-23 – The Lahore
Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward
at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League.
1940-07-02 – Indian
independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.
1941-05-25 – 5,000 drown
in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India
1941-11-24 – Indian
infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar
1942-08-09 – Mahatma
Gandhi & 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a “quit India”
campaign by the All-India Congress
1942-10-16 – Cyclone in
Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India
1943-12-30 – Subhash
Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
1944-04-01 – Japanese
troops conquer Jessami, East-India
1944-04-14 – Freighter
“Fort Stikene” explodes in Bombay India, killing 1,376
1944-08-19 – Last
Japanese troops driven out of India
1945-11-13 – Australian
Services draw 1st Victory Test against India
1946-03-15 – British
premier Attlee agrees with India’s right to independence
1946-08-08 – India agrees
to give Bhutan 32 sq miles
1946-09-02 – Nehru forms
govt in India
1946-12-01 – Australia
compile 645 v India at the Gabba (Bradman 187)
1947-02-20 – Lord
Mountbatten appointed as last viceroy of India
1947-06-03 – British
viceroy of India lord Mountbatten visits Pakistan
1947-07-18 – King George
VI signs Indian Independence Bill
1947-08-14 – India
granted independence within British Commonwealth
1947-08-15 – India
declares independence from UK, Islamic part becomes Pakistan
1947-08-17 – The
Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is
revealed.
1947-10-26 – Maharajah of
Jammu & Kashmir accedes to India
1948-01-01 – Bradman
scores 132 in the 1st innings of the 3rd Test v India
1948-01-01 – Orissa
province accedes to India
1948-01-01 – After
partition, India declines to pay the agreed share of Rs.550 million in cash
balances to Pakistan.
1948-01-03 – Bradman
completes dual Test tons (132 & 127*) v India MCG
1948-01-23 – Bradman
scores 201 in 272 mins v India, 21 fours 1 six
1948-01-23 – Test debut
of Neil Harvey, v India at Adelaide
1948-01-24 – Australia
all out 674 v India (Bradman 201, Hassett 198*)
1948-04-15 – Indian
territory of Himachal Pradesh created
1948-06-21 – Lord
Mountbatten resigns as gov-gen of India
1948-09-12 – Invasion of
the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader
Jinnah’s death.
1949-01-14 – Black/Indian
race rebellion in Durban, South Africa; 142 die
1949-02-19 – Mass arrests
of communists in India
1949-03-05 – The
Jharkhand Party is founded in India.
1949-05-12 – 1st foreign
woman ambassador received in US (S V L Pandit India)
1949-09-23 – Indian owner
Bill Veeck holds funeral services to bury 1948 pennant
1949-10-15 –
Administration of territory of Manipur taken over by Indian govt
1949-10-15 – Tripura
accedes to Indian union
1949-11-26 – India adopts
a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
1949-12-30 – India
recognizes People’s Republic of China
1950-01-01 – The state of
Ajaigarh is ceded to the Government of India.
1950-01-26 – India
becomes a republic ceaseing to be a British dominion
1950-07-02 – Indian Bob
Feller, wins his 200th game, 5-3 over Detroit
1950-08-15 – 8.6
earthquake in India kills 20,000 to 30,000
1950-08-15 – Srikakulam
district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
1950-10-26 – Mother
Teresa found her Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India
1950-11-06 – King Tribhuvana
of Nepal flees to India
1950-12-05 – Sikkim
becomes a protectorate of India
1952-01-21 – Nehru’s
Congress party wins general election in India
1952-05-13 – Pandit Nehru
becomes premier of India
1952-05-13 – The Rajya
Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
1952-07-19 – Freddie
Trueman takes 8-31, India all out 58 at Old Trafford
1952-07-19 – India all
out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 earlier in the day
1952-10-16 – Pakistan’s
1st Test starts, v India at Delhi
1952-10-18 – Vinoo Mankad
takes 13 Pakistan wkts to win 1st India-Pak clash
1952-10-25 – Nazar
Mohammad scores Pakistan’s 1st Test century 124* v India
1953-04-01 – Walcott
Worrell & Weekes all make centuries in innings v India
1953-10-01 – Indian state
of Andhra Pradesh partitioned from Madras
1954-11-01 – India takes
over administration of 4 French Indian settlements
1955-04-11 – The Air
India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt
on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
1955-04-30 – Imperial
Bank of India nationalized
1955-05-02 – India poses
discrimination “onaanraakbaren” punishable
1955-06-07 – India
premier Nehru visit USSR
1956-09-01 – Indian state
of Tripura becomes a territory
1956-09-02 – Collapse of
a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India)
1956-11-01 – Delhi
becomes a territory of Indian union
1956-11-01 – Indian state
of Madhya Pradesh forms
1956-11-01 – Indian
states of Punjab, Patiala & PEPSU merge as Punjab protection
1956-11-01 – Formation of
Kerala state in India. 1957-01-26 – India annexes Kashmir
1957-03-22 – Republic of
India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian
1959-01-01 – Rohan Kanhai
completes 256 v India at Calcutta
1959-03-17 – Dalai Lama
flees Tibet for India of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian
1959-01-01 – Rohan Kanhai
completes 256 v India at Calcutta
1959-03-17 – Dalai Lama
flees Tibet for India
1959-03-31 – Dalai Lama
fled China & was granted political asylum in India
1959-07-27 – Abbas Ali
Baig scores 112 for India v England on debut
1959-08-24 – England
complete 5-0 series drubbing of India
1959-09-21 – 600 Indian
Dutch emigrate to US
1959-10-23 – Chinese
troops move into India, 17 die
1959-12-20 – Jasu Patel
takes 9-69, India v Australia at Kanpur
1960-02-12 – Chinese army
kills 12 Indian soldiers
1960-05-01 – India’s
Bombay state split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states
1961-11-05 – India’s
premier Nehru arrives in NY
1961-12-17 – India seizes
Goa & 2 other Portuguese colonies
1961-12-18 – India
annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu
1962-02-25 – India
Congress Party wins elections
1962-05-30 – 69 killed in
bus crash (Ahmedabad India)
1962-09-08 – Chinese
troops exceed Mac-Mahon-line (Tibet-India boundary)
1962-10-10 – Indies
assault up Chinese positions in North-India attack
1962-10-20 – Chinese army
lands in India
1962-11-21 – The Chinese
People’s Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian
War.
1963-05-28 – Estimated
22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India)
1963-12-01 – Nagaland becomes
a state of Indian union
1964-01-13 – Hindu-Muslim
rioting breaks out in the Indian city of Calcutta – now Kolkata – resulting in
the deaths of more than 100 people.
1964-02-09 – Hanumant
Singh scores 105 India v England on debut at Delhi
1964-06-02 – Lal Bahadur
Sjastri elected premier of India
1964-10-29 – Star of
India & other jewels are stolen in NY
1964-12-23 – India &
Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed
1965-01-08 – Star of
India returned to American Museum of Natural History
1965-04-09 – India &
Pakistan engage in border fight
1965-05-11 – 1st of 2
cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (India)
1965-05-25 – India &
Pakistan border fights
1965-05-28 – Fire &
explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400
1965-06-02 – 2nd of 2
cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India)
1965-08-06 – Indian
troops invade Pakistan
1965-09-01 – India &
Pakistan border fights
1965-09-06 – India
invades West Pakistan
1965-09-07 – China
announces that it will reinforce its troops in the Indian border.
1965-09-22 – India &
Pakistan ceases-fire goes into effect
1966-01-10 – India &
Pakistan sign peace accord
1966-01-19 – Mrs. Indira
Gandhi elected India’s 3rd prime minister
1966-04-06 – Mihir Sen
swims Palk Strait between Sri Lanka & India
1966-06-24 – Bombay-NY
Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die
1966-11-01 – Indian
Haryana state created from Punjab; Chandigarh terr created
1966-12-13 – Test debut
of Clive Lloyd, v India Bombay, 82 & 78
1967-05-06 – Zakir
Hussain elected 1st Moslem president of India
1967-06-09 – Boycott
scores 246* v India, Leeds, 573 minutes, 29 fours 1 six
1967-09-04 – 6.5
earthquake of Kolya Dam India, kills 200
1967-09-11 –
Indian/Chinese border fights
1967-12-11 – 6.5
earthquake in West India, 170 killed
1968-01-31 – Bobby
Simpson takes 5-59 v India in his last Test for ten years
1968-02-16 – Beatles
George Harrison & John Lennon & wives fly to India for transcendental
meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1968-12-25 – 42 Dalits
are burned alive in Kilavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, a retaliation for a
campaign for higher wages by Dalit labourers.
1969-12-25 – India all
out for 163 at Madras v Aust, Ashley Mallett 5-91
1970-04-02 – Meghalaya
becomes autonomous state within India’s Assam state
1971-01-25 – Himachal
Pradesh becomes 18th Indian state
1971-03-09 – J M Noreiga
takes 9-95 WI v India at Port-of-Spain
1971-08-24 – India beat
England by 4 wickets, their win against the Poms
1971-11-21 – Indian
troops partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas) defeat the Pakistan
army in the Battle of Garibpur.
1971-12-03 –
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: India invades West Pakistan and a full scale war
begins claiming hundreds of lives.
1971-12-04 – The UN
Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating
situation between India and Pakistan.
1971-12-04 – The Indian
Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi.
1971-12-16 – India’s army
occupies Dacca, West Pakistani troops surrenders
1971-12-17 – Cease fire
between India & Pakistan in Kashmir
1972-01-21 – Manipur,
Meghalaya & Tripura become separate states of Indian union
1972-01-21 – Mizoram,
formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory
1972-01-21 – Tripura
becomes a full-fledged state in India.
1972-03-19 – India &
Bangladesh sign friendship treaty
1972-07-02 – India &
Pakistan sign peace accord
1972-07-10 – Herd of
stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India
1972-12-17 – New line of
control agreed to in Kashmir between India & Pakistan
1972-12-23 – Chandrasekhar
takes 8-79 India v England at Delhi
1973-02-09 – Biju Patnaik
of the Pragati Legislature Party elected leader of opposition in the state
assembly in Orissa, India.
1973-02-27 – American
Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota
1973-02-27 – Members of
American Indian Movement begin occupation of Wounded Knee
1973-07-07 – 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India)
1973-07-07 – 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India)
1973-08-28 – India &
Pakistan sign POW accord
1973-11-01 – The Indian
state of Mysore was renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within
Karunadu .
1974-05-18 – India
becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb
1974-07-13 – India’s 1st
one-day international (v England, Headingley)
1974-11-07 – 63rd Davis
Cup: South Africa beats India in (w/o)
1975-01-29 – W I win
Fifth Test against India to take exciting series 3-2
1975-04-19 – India
launches 1st satellite with help of USSR
1975-05-16 – India
annexes Principality of Sikkim
1975-05-19 – Farm truck
packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles
south of Poona, India
1975-06-26 – Indian PM Mrs.Mrs.
Indira Gandhi declares a state of
emergency
1975-06-26 – Two FBI
agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on
the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later
convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
1975-07-20 – India expels
three reporters from The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and Newsweek because they
refused to sign a pledge to abide by government censorship.
1975-12-27 – Explosion at
Chasnala Colliery collapses drowning 350 (Dhanbad India)
1976-02-17 – Richard
Hadlee takes 7-23 v India, his 1st match-winning spell
1976-04-12 – India set
403 to win by WI They get them, 6 wkts 7 overs spare
1976-04-25 – India all
out for 97 v West Indies
1977-01-19 – World’s
largest crowd-12.7 million-for Indian religious festival
1977-03-20 – Premier Mrs.
Indira Gandhi loses election in India
1977-03-22 – Mrs. Indira
Gandhi resigns as PM of India
1977-03-28 – Morarji
Desai forms govt in India
1977-12-17 – Bobby
Simpson scores 176 Australia v India at the WACA, aged 41
1978-01-01 – Air India
B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213
1978-01-03 – Chandrasekar
takes 6-52 & 6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win
1978-02-03 – Australia
beat India 3-2 on 6th day of final test
1978-02-03 – India
needing 493 to beat Australia at Adelaide, all out 445
1978-10-16 – Test debut
of Kapil Dev, India v Pakistan at Faisalabad
1978-12-19 – Mrs. Indira
Gandhi ambushed in India
1978-12-26 – India’s
former PM, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, released from jail
1979-01-02 – Gavaskar
gets twin tons for India for the third time (v WI)
1979-02-07 – Faoud
Bacchus scores 250 for WI v India at Kanpur
1979-06-01 – Vizianagaram
district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
1979-06-07 – Bhaskara 1,
Indian Earth resources/meteorology satellite, launched
1979-07-15 – Morarji
Desai resigns as premier of India
1979-07-17 – David Gower
200* in England score of 5-633 v India at Edgbaston
1979-08-20 – India
premier Charan Singh resigns
1979-09-04 – India need 438 to win v England, game ends at 8-429
1979-09-04 – India need 438 to win v England, game ends at 8-429
1979-09-20 – The Punjab
wing of the Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India
(Marxist-Leninist) formally splits and constitutes a parallel UCCRI(ML).
1979-10-17 – Mother
Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1980-01-06 – Mrs. Indira
Gandhi’s Congress Party wins elections in India
1980-07-18 – Rohini 1,
1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit
1981-01-03 – Greg
Chappell scores 204 v India at the SCG
1981-01-08 – India all
out 63 in one-day international v Australia
1981-01-24 – Kim Hughes
scores 213 v India at Adelaide
1981-02-11 – Australia
all out 83 v India at MCG chasing 143 to win
1981-06-06 – A passenger
train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge
crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at
268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual
figure is closer to 1,000 killed.
1981-06-19 – India’s
APPLE satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched
1981-07-16 – India performs
nuclear Test
1981-10-14 – Citing
official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International
charges the U.S. government with holding Richard Marshall of the American
Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
1982-07-09 – Botham
scores 208 in 225 balls, England v India at The Oval
1982-07-27 – Indian PM Mrs.
Indira Gandhi 1st visit to US in almost 11 years
1982-12-27 – Imran Khan
8-60 to bring innings victory v India at Karachi
1983-01-15 – Javed
Miandad & Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand v India
1983-02-22 – Hindus kill
3000 Moslems in Assam, India
1983-04-17 – India
entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket
1983-11-16 – Kapil Dev
takes 9-83 v WI at Ahmedabad, but India still lose
1983-11-27 – Desmond
Haynes out handled the ball v India
1984-02-01 – Ravindara
Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203)
1984-04-03 – Soyuz T-11
carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7
1984-04-15 – Extremist
Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab India
1984-06-06 – 1,200 die in
Sikh “Golden Temple” uprising India
1984-08-03 – Bomb attack
on Madras India airport, 32 killed
1984-09-28 – 1st floodlit
ODI outside of Australia (India v Aust, New Delhi)
1984-11-03 – 3,000 die in
3 day anti-Sikh riot in India
1984-11-03 – Body of
assassinated Indian PM Mrs. Indira Gandhi cremated
1984-12-03 – 2,000 die
from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India
1984-12-28 – Mr. Rajiv
Gandhi’s Congress party wins election in India
1984-12-29 – Indian PM Mr.
Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections
1984-12-31 – Mr. Rajiv
Gandhi takes office as India’s 6th PM succeeds his mom, Mrs. Indira
1985-01-15 – Mike Gatting
& Graeme Fowler both scores 200′s v India
1985-04-08 – India files
suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster
1985-05-11 – Booby trap
bomb kills 86 people in India
1985-06-23 – Bomb
destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die
1985-08-17 – Mr. Rajiv
Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India
1985-09-25 – Akali Dal
wins Punjab State election in India
1985-12-13 – David Boon’s
1st Test century, 123 v India at Adelaide
1985-12-13 – Test debut
of Merv Hughes, Geoff Marsh & Bruce Reid (v India)
1986-01-04 – David Boon’s
second Test century, 131 v India at Adelaide
1986-02-02 – Dalai Lama
meets Pope John Paul II in India
1986-02-11 – Australia
beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1986-03-28 – Extremist
Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India
1986-07-25 – Sikhs
extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India
1986-09-19 – Dean Jones
scores 210 v India at Madras
1986-10-02 – Failed
assassination attempt on India premier Mr. Rajiv Gandhi
1986-10-02 – Sikhs
attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Mr. Rajiv Gandhi
1986-10-19 – Allan Border
scores the 1,000,000th run in Tests (v India, Bombay)
1987-07-06 – 1st of 3
massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India
1987-11-25 – India all
out for 75 v West Indies at Delhi, Patterson 5-24
1987-12-11 – Test debut
of Carl Hooper, WI v India at Bombay
1987-12-20 – 76th Davis
Cup: Sweden beats India in Gothenburg (5-0)
1988-01-11 – Test debut
of Phil Simmons, WI v India, Madras
1988-07-21 – ESA’s
Ariane-3 launches 2 communications satellites (1 Indian)
1988-08-20 – 6.5
earthquake strikes India/Nepal, 1,000s killed
1988-11-30 – Cyclone
lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed
1989-10-20 – Pakistan win
Sharjah Trophy over India & WI on round-robin
1989-11-29 – India
president Mr. Rajiv Gandhi, resigns
1989-12-02 – Vishwanath
Pratap Singh sworn in as president of India
1990-02-23 – Ian Smith
173* NZ v India, 136 balls, world record for no 9 bat
1990-03-24 – Indian troops
leave Sri Lanka
1990-03-27 – Bus
accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die
1990-04-17 – Gas explodes
on passenger train in Kumrahar India, 80 die
1990-07-27 – Graham Gooch
scores 333 v India at Lord’s
1990-07-30 – Graham Gooch
scores 123 v India to follow up 1st innings 333
1990-12-10 – Hindu-Muslim
rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die
1991-10-16 – Jharkhand
Chhatra Yuva Morcha is founded at a conference in Ranchi, India.
1991-10-20 – 6.1-7.1 earthquake in Uttar Kashi, India, about 670 die
1991-10-20 – 6.1-7.1 earthquake in Uttar Kashi, India, about 670 die
1991-10-25 – Aaqib Javed
takes 7-37 in 10 overs v India in cric 1-dayer at Sharjah
1991-12-26 – Militant
Sikhs kill 55 & wound 70 in India 1992-01-02 – Test debut of Shane Warne, v
India at Sydney
1992-01-20 – Australia
beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1992-01-28 – Boon
completes twelfth Test century, 135 v India at Adelaide
1992-05-20 – India
launches its 1st satellite independently
1992-05-22 – India
launches its Agni rocket
1992-06-23 – “Tin Bigha
Day” protest in India of corridor opening to Bangladesh
1992-06-26 – India leases
Tin Bigha corridor to Bangladesh
1992-10-18 – Start of
Zimbabwe’s 1st Test match, v India at Harare
1992-10-20 – David
Houghton gets Zimbabwe’s 1st Test ton (121 v India, debut)
1992-12-06 – 300,000
hindus destroy mosque of Babri India, 4 die
1993-01-23 – Indian
Airlines B737 crashes art Aurangabad, 61 die
1993-01-29 – Test debut
of Vinod Kambli, prolific Indian batsman
1993-02-23 – India
complete a 3-0 series drubbing of England
1993-09-30 – 6.4 earthquake
at Latur, India, 28,000 killed
1994-01-25 – Mine fire at
Asansol India, kills 55
1994-03-15 – Experts from
AL certify Indian’s Jacobs Field is properly lit
1994-04-13 – United Arab
Emirates’ 1st official ODI, losing to India
1994-05-20 – Miss India
(Sushmita Sen) selected Miss Universe
1994-05-21 – Sushmita
Sen, 18, of India, crowned 43rd Miss Universe
1994-07-24 – Bodo kills
37 Moslems in Bashbari NE India
1994-07-29 – India army
kills 27 Moslem militants
1994-10-29 – National
Museum of American Indian opens (NYC)
1994-11-19 – Aishwarya
Rai, 21, of India, crowned 44th Miss World
1995-02-25 – Bomb attack
on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)
1995-03-12 – Congress
party loses India national election
1996-03-09 – Javed
Miandad’s last international in Pak’s WC QF loss to India
1996-03-13 – Sri Lanka
beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play
1996-08-20 – India defeat
Pakistan in Under-15 World Challenge Final at Lord’s
1996-09-16 – 1st one-day
international in Canada, India v Pakistan at Toronto
1997-03-13 – India’s
Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its
leader.
1997-07-25 – K.R.
Narayanan is sworn-in as India’s 10th president and the first Dalit— formerly
called “untouchable”— to hold this office.
1998-03-24 – A tornado
sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
1998-04-06 – Pakistan
tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.
1998-05-11 – India
conducts three underground nuclear tests in Pokhran, including a thermonuclear
device.
1998-05-13 – India
carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, in addition to the three conducted on
May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
1998-05-28 – Nuclear
testing: Pakistan responds to a series of Indian nuclear tests with five of its
own, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic
sanctions.
1999-01-22 – Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
1999-01-22 – Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
1999-03-11 – Infosys
becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
1999-04-08 – Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress.
1999-04-08 – Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress.
1999-08-11 – Total solar
eclipse in India-North -France (2m23s)
2000-02-15 – Indian Point
II nuclear power plant in New York State vents a small amount of radioactive
steam when a steam generator fails.
2000-11-15 – A chartered
Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40
people. New Jharkhand state came into existence in India.
2001-01-26 – An
earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
2001-06-18 – Protests
occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents
and the government of India. 2001-09-21 – University of Roorkee, becomes
India’s 7th Indian Institute of Technology, rechristened as IIT Roorkee
2001-12-13 – the Indian
Parliament Sansad is attacked by terrorists. 15 people are killed, including
all the terrorists.
2002-05-03 – A military
MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
2003-06-05 – A severe
heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed
50°C (122°F) in the region.
2003-10-17 – Eunuchs in
the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh float the political party Jiti Jitayi
Politics.
2003-11-18 – The congress
of the Communist Party of Indian Union (Marxist-Leninist) decides to merge the
party into Kanu Sanyal’s CPI(ML).
2004-03-23 – Andhra
Pradesh Federation of Trade Unions holds its first conference in Hyderabad,
India.
2004-06-06 – Tamil is
established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul
Kalam in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.
2004-09-17 – Tamil is
declared the first classical language in India.
2004-09-21 – The
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People’s War and the Maoist
Communist Centre of India merge to form the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
2005-01-25 – A stampede
at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258.
2005-07-26 – Mumbai,
India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city
to a halt for over 2 days.
2006-07-06 – The Nathula
Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for
trade after 44 years.
2006-07-11 – 209 people
are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
2007-07-25 –Mrs. Pratibha
Patil is sworn in as India’s first woman president
2008-10-22 – India
launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
2008-11-26 – Terrorist
attacks in Mumbai, India: Ten coordinated attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists
kill 164 and injure more than 250 people in Mumbai, India.
2010-02-13 – A bombing at
the German Bakery in Pune, India, kills 10 and injures 60 more
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