Year 1760
In the battle at Wandiwash (India), after their victory against the French, the British virtually had no European opponent left in India.
JANUARY 22
Daily Historical Chronicle
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22 January: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 22 January.
Year 1901
After the death of Queen Victoria, Edward VII became the King of England.
Year 1924
Ramsey MacDonald became the first Prime Minister of the Labor Party in Britain.
Year 1945
The Indian 7th Division captures Tilin at Burma.
Year 1947
The Constitution Committee approved a resolution on the outline of the Indian Constitution.
Year 1963
‘National Library for the Blind’ established at Dehradun. The first national institute of its kind.
Year 1965
Plutonium Project (Sanyantra) was inaugurated at Trombay, Mumbai.
Year 1967
Atomic Energy Center was renamed after Homi Jahangir Bhabha as 'Bhabha Atomic Research Centre' at Trombay, Mumbai.
Year 1971
Sarvmittra Sikri becomes the 13th Chief Justice of India.
Year 1986
Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha Awards instituted.
Year 1986
Satwant Singh, Balbir Singh and Kehar Singh, all sikhs, were sentenced to death for the assassination of India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Year 1990
The International Literacy Campaign was launched in the country by the Prime Minister at a national function held in New Delhi.
Year 1992
Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was announced to be given to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
Year 1992
Government raises Suzuki share in Maruti to 50 per cent making it the first public sector company to go private.
Year 1998
Second Lieutenant Punit Datta is posthumously selected for the nation's highest peace time gallantry award, Ashok Chakra.
Year 2001
A missile carrier ship INS Mumbai launches into the Indian Navy.
Year 2009
The film Slumdog Millionaire had nominated for an Oscar.
Year 2015
“Beti Bachao, Beti Padao” scheme was established by the present Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Panipat, Haryana
Year 2002
Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Year 2006
Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
Year 2007
At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.
Year 2015
An explosion near a civilian trolley-bus in Donetsk kills at least thirteen people.
Born 1561
Francis Bacon, an English philosopher, and statesman.
Born 1788
Lord Byron, a British peer, who was a poet and politician.
Born 1877
Tarun Ram Phookun, ''Deshabhakta'', great lawyer, orator, eminent writer and President of the Assam Chhatra Sammelan in 1928, was born in Gauhati, district Kamrup, Assam.
Born 1891
Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Marxist writer, and politician.
Born 1897
Dilipkumar Roy, a Bengali Indian musician, musicologist, novelist, poet and essayist. (d. 1980)
Born 1899
Suryakant Tripathi, known by his nom de plume Nirala, was an Indian poet, novelist, essayist, and story-writer.
Born 1901
Nirmal Kumar Bose, a leading Indian anthropologist.
Born 1903
Shankar Das Banerji, lawyer and politician, was born at Calcutta.
Born 1906
Judge Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah, chief Justice and Supreme Court of India, was born.
Born 1916
Harilal Upadhyay, a Gujarati novelist, Indian author, poet, and astrologist (d. 1994)
Born 1922
Shanta Buddhisagar, famous Marathi writer, was born.
Born 1934
Vijay Anand, an Indian filmmaker, producer, screenwriter, editor, and actor.
Born 1934
Vijay Anand, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
Born 1949
Manik Sarkar, an Indian politician who served as the Chief Minister of Tripura.
Died 1666
Shahjahan (Sjihab Al-Din Sultan C Shah D Jahan), the fifth Mughal emperor. The great Mughal emperor, died at the Agra fort as a prisoner, to rest besides Mumtaz in Taj Mahal. Jahanara arranged that Sahjahan be laid.
Died 1683
Shri Samarth Ramdas passed away.
Died 1799
Horace Bénédict de Saussure, a Genevan geologist, meteorologist, physicist, mountaineer and Alpine explorer.
Died 1858
Veer Narayan Singh, freedom fighter, was sentenced to death.
Died 1886
Harikrishna Premi, Hindi writer, passed away.
Died 1901
Queen Victoria, the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Queen Victoria (1819-1901) passed away at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, South England, after a brief illness. She had been throned for almost 64 years, which is the longest reign in British history. She had given her name to an age "Victorian Britain".
Died 1957
Paul Walden, a Russian, Latvian and German chemist known for his work in stereochemistry and history of chemistry.
Died 1967
Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje, an Indian revolutionary, scholar, agricultural scientist, and historian who was among the founding fathers of the Ghadar Party.
Died 1972
Swami Ramanand Tirtha, an Indian freedom fighter, educator, and social activist.
Died 1973
Lyndon B. Johnson, an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States.
Died 1999
Graham Staines, Australian-Indian missionary and translator (b. 1941)