Today In Indian History (16th February)

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. 

Today In Indian History (15th February)

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. 

Today In Indian History (14th February)

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. 

Today In Indian History (13th February)

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.  

Today In Indian History (12th February)

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. 

Today In Indian History (11th February)

1750 - Birth of Tilka Majhi on 11th February 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. 

Tilka Majhi was executed by the British on January 13, 1785. 

Today In Indian History (10th February)

1817- Treaty of Titalia was signed on 10 February in 1817. The Treaty of Titalia was signed between the chogyal (Raja) of the Kingdom of Sikkim and the British East India Company (EIC). Under the terms of the treaty, tract annexed by the Nepalese were ceded to the Raja of Sikkim.

1858 - Death of Raja Bakhtawar Singh on 10th February in 1858. 

Ruler of the princely state of Amjhera in Madhya Pradesh, Raja Bakhtawar Singh is known as a brave leader who unfurled the banner of rebellion against the British during the time of Revolt of 1857. In 1858, he was hanged on a neem tree on the premises of Maharaja Yashwant Hospital in Indore. At the time of his death, he was thirty four years old.

1916 - Death of Sohan Lal Pathak on 10 February 1916. Born in 1883 at Patti (now in Tarn Taran district) in Punjab, Sohan Lal Pathak was a revolutionary who was hanged at the Mandalay Jail in Burma on 10 February 1916 for organizing an uprising against the British.