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Events for April 13

1772
Warren Hastings, who became the president of their Bengal Council, was appointed in the court of Directors of the East India Company.

Events for April 3

1857 Queen Victoria declared as Queen of India also.

1988 Rajiv Gandhi seals the border between Punjab and Pakistan.

1992 Nagaland brought under President's rule.

Events for March 30

1699
Guru Govind Singh the 10th Guru of Sikh's established 'Khalsa Panth'.

1919
Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act.

Events for March 28

1556
Origin of Fasli Era (India).

1941
Netaji Subhashchandra Bose reached Berlin after his secret underground journey from Calcutta.

Events for March 27

1878
Britishers sent Indian soldiers to Malta considering that the Russian would attack.

1992
India signs Friendship Treaty with Ukraine.

Events for March 21

1791
Tipu Sultan capitulated to Lord Cornwallis.

1939
Gandhi calls on world to disarm, thinks Hi**er would follow.

Events for March 15

1564
Akbar removed 'Jeziya' or toll-tax for his non-Muslim subjects.

1997
Lok Sabha passes Income Tax (Amendment) Bill, 1997.

Events for March 13

1938
Hi**er merged Austria in Germany.

1991
President R. Venkataraman dissolves the Lok Sabha.

Events for March 12

1930
Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence.

Events for March 11

1784
Tipu Sultan and Britishers signed the treaty at Mangalore which is known as the Mangalore treaty.

1948
SS Jal Usha, the first ocean-going steamer made in India, was launched from Visakhapatnam.

1963
First Railway Engine was produced by Chittaranjan Railway Factory.

Events for March 5

1931
Mahatma Gandh & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign a pact referred in Indian History as ""Gandhi-Irwin Pact"", after which the civic disobedience movement was taken.

1948
C. Rajagopalachari appointed the first Indian Governor General to succeed Lord Mountbatten on 21 June.