| 1568 | The Mughal emperor Akbar attacked Chittorgarh. |
| 1774 | Calcutta (now Kolkata) was made the capital of India. |
| 1961 | Birja Sankar Guha, physical anthropologist and first director of the Anthropological Survey of India, died in Ghatshila Bihar. |
| 1978 | India's aggressive batsman Virender Sehwag was born. He scored 8,586 runs in 104 Tests and 8,273 runs in 251 ODIs in his career. |
| 1947 | The first war took place between India and Pakistan. |
| 1962 | China attacked India and attempted to sneak into the Indian border via Arunachal Pradesh. |
| 1964 | One of the revolutionaries of India, HC Dasappa died. |
| 1991 | A 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Uttarkashi, India killed more than 1000 people. |