This is 365th Day in this year and 1 day is more to complete this year. Events: 1600 – East India company is formed in England. Gets exclusive trading rights with India. The East India Company had the unusual distinction of ruling an entire country. Its origins were much humbler. On 31 December 1600, a group of merchants who […]

This is 364th Day in this year and 2 days are more to complete this year. Events: 1419 – Hundred Years’ War: Battle of La Rochelle 1813 – War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York. 1906 – The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India. It went on to lay the foundations […]

This is 363rd Day in this year and 3 days are more to complete this year.   Events: 1965-First Indian-made tank ‘Vijayanta’ rolled off the Avadi Heavy Vehicles factory. 1972-Construction work of Metro Train in Calcutta commenced. Births 1844 – Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee, Indian barrister and was the first president of Indian National Congress. He was the first Indian […]

This is 362nd Day in this year and 4 days are more to complete this year. Events: 1885 – 72 social reformers, journalists and lawyers congregated for the first session of the Indian National Union at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College, Bombay; the conference was renamed as the Indian National Congress. 1895 – The Lumière brothers perform […]

PardhuWins This is 361st Day in this year and 5 days are more to complete this year. Events: 1831 – Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate his theory of evolution. 1886-The second session of the Congress took place under the leadership of Dadabhai Naoroji in Calcutta. […]

This is 360th Day in this year and 6 days are more to complete this year. Events: 1907-Surat Split refers to the splitting of the Congress party into ‘Moderates’ and ‘Extremists‘ after a violent clash at the session. The extremists were led by Lokmanya Tilak, Lajpat Rai, V. O. Chidambaram Pillai and Sri Aurobindo and the moderates […]

This is 359th Day in this year and 7 days are more to complete this year. Events 1921-Mass boycott greets the Prince of Wales when he arrives in Calcutta. 1943-Japanese bombers raid Chittagong 1974-Indian Aeroplane Jumbo 747 was hijacked and taken over to Rome. 1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the […]

This is 358th Day in this year and 8 days are more to complete this year. Events 1999 – Indian Airlines Flight 814 is hijacked in Indian airspace between Kathmandu, Nepal, and Delhi, India. The aircraft landed at Kandahar in Afghanistan. The incident ended on December 31 with the release of 190 survivors (one passenger is […]

Events 1912-On the occasion of transferring the Imperial Capital from Calcutta to Delhi.Delhi-Lahore Conspiracy planned under Rash Behari Bose, an erstwhile Jugantar member, to assassinate the then Viceroy of India Charles Hardinge 1930-The British governor of Punjab was wounded in an assassination attempt. 1944 – Greece — Greek statue from 510 B.C. found A six foot Greek statue […]