Historical Events Events 1 - 100 of 504 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. 1509-02-03 - 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 Vijayanagars army Mughal Emperor AkbarMughal Emperor Akbar 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 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 1621-06-03 - Dutch West India Company (WIC) receives charter for The West Indies (included, The Americas, Caribbean and West Africa) 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 King Charles IIKing Charles II 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 British in Trichinopoly India 1755-04-02 - Commodore William James captures the pirate fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India. 1755-07-09 - British General 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 - Siraj ud-Daulah Nawab of Bengal takes Calcutta from the British 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 Kingdoms 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 husbands funeral pyre 1835-02-24 - Siwinowe Kesibwi (Shawnee Sun) is 1st Indian lang monthly mag 1838-11-03 - The Times of India, the worlds 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, British 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 - Great 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 in Meerut 1858-07-28 - 1st use of fingerprints as a means of identification is made by Sir William James Herschel of the Indian Civil Service in India 1858-07-28 - William Herschel of the Indian Civil Service in India 1858-08-02 - Government 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 and Ethiopian Emperor commits suicide 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 - Englands 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.
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