Showing posts with label Today in India History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Today in India History. Show all posts

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Today in India History (29th December)



December 29, 1844

  • Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee or Umesh Chandra Banerjee, the first president of Indian National Congress in 1885, is born in Calcutta. He was also the first Indian to fight the election to British Parliament.

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Today in India History (28th December)




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December 28 1885
The Indian National Congress (INC) is Founded by A.O. Hume in Mumbai. First session of INC was held in Mumbai from 28 –31 December in 1885.

Today in India History (27th December)





·         The famous Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib during the Mughal period was born in Agra on 27 December 1797. Today is Ghalib's 215th birth anniversary.


Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Today in India History (26th December)

  • Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur Shah or Babur, as he is generally called, died on 26th December at the age of 47 in 1530 in Agra. Babur was the founder of the Mughal dynasty in India in 1526. The Mughal rule in India came to an end in 1857 when it last ruler Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled to Burma by the British.
  • Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, founder of Young Bengal Movement, passes away on 26th December 1831 at a young age of 22 in Calcutta.


Jean Baptiste Tavernier

Jean-Baptiste Tavernier  (1605–1689)  was a French traveller and a merchant in gems who made six voyages to India between 1630 and 1668 duri...