1399- Mongol leader Amir Timur, also known as Tamerlane, sacks Kangra on 16th January, 1399 during his invasions on India in which he massacred thousands of the inhabitants of many cities and places of India including Talamba, Delhi, Firuzabad, Meerut, Jammu and Kangra.
1680- Shambhiji, the second Chhatrapati of the Maratha Kingdom and son of Shivaji, was coronated at Raigad fort in 1680. He formally ascended the throne on 20 July, 1680, and his coronation ceremony was performed with great splendour on 16 January, 1681.
1757- The Battle of Narela took place between the Marathas and Afghan invader Ahmad Shah Abdali on 16 January 1757, at Narela, on the outskirts of Delhi. Ahmad Shah Abdali had defeated the Marathas in the Third Battle of Panipat in 1761.
1761 - The British East India Company captures Pondicherry (Puducherry) from the French on January 16, 1761.
1901- Death of Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842-1901), a scholar and prominent leader of the freedom struggle from Maharashtra. He passed away on 16 January in 1842.
Mahadev Govind Ranade had founded Poona Sarvajanik Sabha and was a prominent leader of Prarthana Samaj. He comes lauded as the prophet of cultural renaissance in western India. Ranade was the editor of Induprakash.
1938- Death of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay on 16th January 1938. He is one of Bengal's most prolific and popular novelists. He was born on September 15, 1876, in Hooghly in West Bengal.
Devdas, Choritrohin, Srikanta and Pather Dabi are some of his novels. Pather Dabi was proscribed by the British for being seditious.
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