| 1664 | Sikh religious teacher Har Kishan died on 6 April 1664. |
| 1606 | Prince Khusro revolted against his father, the Mughal ruler Jahangir, in 1606. |
| 1896 | The first modern Olympics began in 1896. |
| 1919 | Mahatma Gandhi called for the first All India strike in 1919 as part of the Civil Disobedience Movement launched against the Rowlatt Act. |
| 1966 | Indian swimmer Mihir Sen swam across the Palk Strait in 1966. |
| 1980 | The Bharatiya Janata Party, the political party of India, was established on this day in 1980. |
| 2010 | India's Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and US Finance Minister Timothy Geithner visited India in 2010 to sign an economic partnership agreement. |