1750 - Birth of Tilka Majhi on 11th February in 1750 . Tilka Majhi was a tribal leader and revolutionary who laid down his life in 1785 some 72 years before the First War of Independence in 1857. His place of birth is Tilakpur in Sultanganj in the Bhagalpur district of Bihar. He had killed Augustus Cleveland , a British East India Company administrator in Bengal and Collector of Bhagalpur, who was known for his arrogance and hatred towards Indians. Tilka Majhi was executed by the British on January 13, 1785. The site where he was hanged from a banyan tree is known as Tilka Manjhi Chowk. The Bhagalpur University is also named after this heroic figure. 1942 - Death of Jamnalal Bajaj on 11th February, 1942. Jamnalal Bajaj was a freedom fighter, businessman, social reformer and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.
1757 - Treaty of Alinaga r was signed on 9 February 1757 between Robert Clive of the British East India Company and Siraj ud-Daulah , the Nawab of Bengal, Alinagar was the short-lived name given to Calcutta by the Nawab after it was captured by him in June 1756. Under the terms of the treaty, Calcutta was restored to the East India Company.