11 FEBRUARY

1901       Indian revolutionary Damodar Swaroop Seth was born.

1856       The East India Company took over Awadh.

1968       Jana Sangh founder, writer, journalist Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay was killed in Mughalsarai.

1933       The publication of Mahatma Gandhi’s Harijan Weekly began in 1933.

1966       Former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri died in Tashkent.

1997       Indian Astrophysicist Jayant V Narlikar awarded the 1996 Kalinga Prize in 1996 by UNESCO.

12 FEBRUARY

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.

2009       In 2009, the University of Cambridge announced the conferment of a DeLitt degree to India’s renowned economist Amartya Sen.

13 FEBRUARY

1879       Birth of freedom fighter Sarojini Naidu.

1984       Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi inaugurates the Mazgaon Dock in Mumbai for the Navy.

14 FEBRUARY

1989       Union Carbide, responsible for Bhopal gas scandal, agreed to give compensation to the government.

1881       In 1881, Rajendra Lal Dutt and Basu opened the country’s first homoeopathic college in Calcutta.

1967       In 1967, the 74th Lok Sabha elections were held.

1999       The fifth National Games were inaugurated in Imphal in 1999.

1970       The ordinance was passed by the President in 1970 about nationality.

15 FEBRUARY

1869       Mirza Ghalib, the famous Urdu poet, died.

2017       On this day ISRO launched 104 satellites simultaneously.

1967       Elections to the fourth Lok Sabha were held in 1967 in India.

1976       The Central Agricultural Research Institute was established in 1976 in Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh.

16 FEBRUARY

1944       Dada Saheb Phalke died.

1982       The Jawaharlal Nehru International Gold Cup football tournament was held in Calcutta for the first time in 1982.

1987       A missile with submarine capable of hitting the submarine was inducted into the Indian Navy in 1987.

2008       Tata Motors launched a vehicle for the Army on February 16, 2008, called a Light Specialist Vehicle, to allow the Army to show its power through it.

2009       On February 16, 2009, former President Pranab Mukherjee presented the Interim Budget for the year 2009-2010.

17 FEBRUARY

1915       Gandhiji visited Santiniketan for the first time.

1931       Lord Irwin welcomed Gandhiji to the Viceroy’s residence.

2007       Veteran Gandhian Smt. Arunaveen Desai passed away in Gujarat.

2014       On 17 February 2014, the Election Commission banned the transmission of exit polls until the last phase of voting was over.