1792- Birth of Budhu Bhagat on 17 February, 1792 in Jharkhand.
Budhu Bhagat was the leader of Kol rebellion and Larka rebellion in 1831—32 in Chhotanagpur. Born on 17 February 1792 into an Oraon farmer family, Budhu Bhagat had employed tactic of guerrilla warfare against the British.
His resistance to the British forces ended when he was killed on 13 February 1832 by them .
Prayagraj is at its exuberant best when the Kumbh Mela, one of the largest religious congregations in the world, is being held here
Legend has
it that Prayagraj was one of the four sites where a drop of Amrita (nectar)
from the Kumbh (pot), carried by Gods, fell. It is therefore one of the four
venues where the Kumbh Mela is held every 12 years. Haridwar, Nasik and Ujjain are the other three.
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The Kumbh
Mela is a riot of religious activities, worship, faith, rituals, colours and
celebration, attracts millions of pilgrims who dip themselves in the waters to purify
themselves of the sins.
1759- "Siege of Madras" comes to an end on 16th February in 1759. Madras, held by the British, was besieged between December 1758 and February 1759 by French forces under the command of Comte de Lally during the Seven Years' War.
The French forces captured Madras in 1746 during the War of the Austrian Succession, but it was returned to the British in 1748. After ten years, the French army, under the command of Comte de Lally, marched to besiege Madras. The series of battles fought between December 1758 and February 1759 is called the "Siege of Madras". The French army retreated on 16th February, 1759.
1956 - Death of Meghnad Saha on 16 February 1956. Meghnad Saha was an Indian astrophysicist. He was elected to the first Lok Sabha in 1951 as an independent candidate.
1869 - Death of Mirza Ghalib on 15 February 1869. He was a famous Urdu poet during the Mughal period. Ghalib was buried near the tomb of Nizamuddin Auliya in Hazrat Nizamuddin locality in Delhi
Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets in the Urdu language, Mirza Ghalib was patronized by the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar (Zafar ascended the Mughal throne in 1837). He was born in Agra on 27 December 1797.
Ghalib was also well versed in Persian.
1948- Death of famous Hindi poet Subhadra Kumari Chauhan on 15 February 1948. One of her most popular poems is Jhansi Ki Rani. She was born on 16 August 1904.
1483- Birth of Mughal Emperor Babur on 14 February 1483. Zahirudding Muhammad Babur, better known simply today as Babur, who defeated Ibrahim Lodi of the Lodi Dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate at the first battle of Panipat on the 21st April, 1526, founded the Mughal empire in India.
1556 - Akbar ascended the Mughal throne at the age of 13 years and 4 months on February 14, 1556. The brick coronation platform of Akbar, the known as Takht-i-Akbari, is located at Kalanaur in the Gurdaspur district in Punjab. The brick platform is the place where Akbar’s coronation took place in 1556.
1658 - At the Battle of Bahadurpur near Benares, Shuja, son of the fifth Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, was defeated by Sulaiman Shikoh, on 14 February in 1658. Sulaiman Shikoh was the son of Dara Sikoh, eldest son of Shah Jahan.
The Battle of Bahadurpur was part of the fratricidal war of succession which took place as soon as Shah Jahan fell ill in September, 1657. The sickness of Shah Jahan sparked a deadly war of succession among his four sons – Dara Shikoh, Shuja, Aurangzeb and Murad.
1879- Birth of Sarojini Naidu on 13 February in 1879. She was the president of the Indian National Congress in the Kanpur session held in 1925. She became the second woman to preside over the Congress after Annie Besant. She was given the title of "Nightingale of India".
Sarojini Naidu had participated in the Second Round Table Conference in 1931. Round Table Conferences were convened by the British government between 1930 and 1932 to discuss constitutional reforms in India.
Sarojini Naidu became the first Governor of United Provinces in 1947 after Indian Independence and died in office on 2nd March in 1949.
1742 - Birth of Nana Phadnavis (also spelt as Nana Fadnavis) on 12th February in 1742. Nana Fadnavis was a brilliant Maratha minister and statesman during the Peshwa administration in Pune. He is often referred to as "the Maratha Machiavelli".
1824- Birth of Dayanand Saraswati, the founder of Arya Samaj, on 12 February 1824. Arya Samaj was founded in 1875.
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