| 1502 | Vasco-de-Gama sailed from Lisbon for a second trip to India. |
| 1928 | Gandhiji declared Satyagraha in Bardoli. |
| 1975 | India declared itself as a smallpox-free nation on 12 February 1975. |
| 1999 | President's rule in Bihar since 1999. |
| 2009 | In 2009, the University of Cambridge announced the conferment of a DeLitt degree to India's renowned economist Amartya Sen. |