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Today in History – 1 January

1399 Amir Timur left Delhi. He took the title 'Emperor of India' and recrossed the Indus on March 11. 1664 Shivaji assumed the royal title and he...

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Today in History – 31 December

1560 Akbar's Vajir-E-Ajam 'Bairam Khan' was assassinated at Patan, Gujarat by an Afghan assassin Mubarak Khan Lohani ( whose father was slain by Bairam Khan)...

Today in History – 16 December

16 December 1515 Affonso de Albuquerque, who is regarded as the real founder of Portuguese power in India, died at the age of 73 years. 16...

Today in History – 15 December

1675 Guru Tegh Bahadur was beheaded in Delhi by Aurangzeb for his refusal to embrace him. 1749 Shahu Chattrapati, the grandson of Shivaji, died. 1803 East India Company captured...

Today in History – 7 December

43 BC Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator and politician was assassinated in Formiae 1782 Hyder Ali, the warrior of Mysore, passed away in a camp near Chittur. 1825 First...

Today in History – 5 December

1657 Murad proclaimed himself Emperor of India. 1865 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery 1943 The Indian city of Calcutta (now Kolkata) was attacked...

Today in History – 4 December

1534 Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent occupies Baghdad 1791 Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in the world, first published 1796 Bajirao became the second Peshwa. 1829 Britain abolished Sati Pratha in...

Today in History – 3 December

1790 Lord Cornwallis took away the regulation power from Nawab Murshidabad and Sadar Nizamat was removed from Adalat in Calcutta. 1882 Nandalal Bose, the great Indian painter,...

Today in History – 2 December

1552 Father Francis Xavier (1506-1552), Portuguese Jesuit priest, died. He started his mission by training and employing native clergy in conversion efforts. He spread Christianity...

Today in History – 1 December

1964 Battle of Anvadi. 1885 Dattatreya Balkrishna Kalelkar, famous Gandhian Gujrathi litterateur, and educationist was born at Satara in Maharashtra. 1886 Raja Mahendra Pratap, great revolutionary freedom fighter, and...

Today in History – 30 November

1648 English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I 1731 Beijing hit by an earthquake; about 100,000 die 1759 Alamgir was murdered by his minister Imad-ul-Mulk. 1858 Jagdish Chandra Bose, botonist and...

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