R Preetha

28 August 1963

Lekshmi MK

28 July 1914

R Preetha

22 July 1977: Deng Xiaoping returns to power, sets the stage for modern China

Lekshmi MK

23 July 1952: The fall of Egypt’s monarchy and the Rise of a Republic

Vol. 01, No.07 #07

Ramya B

13 August 1784: The UK Parliament passes the Pitts India Act, bringing India under the direct control of the British rule

Sim V

14 August 2021: Taliban returns to Kabul, following the American withdrawal

Pummy Lathigara

14 August 1941: The UK Prime Minister and the American President sign the Atlantic Charter

Ronakk Tijoriwala

13 August 1961: East Germany begins the construction of the Berlin Wall

Arya Madhavan S

15 August 1971: Bahrain becomes independent

Ankita Chakra

17 August 1945: George Orwell publishes the Animal Farm

Rianne Rajath P

18 August 2019: Iceland holds a funeral for the Okjokull glacier

Vol. 01, No. #06

Swagathi Annabel

07 August 1509: Coronation of Krishnadevaraya, highlights the golden era of Vijayanagar empire

Bishwarupa Kar

05 August 1930: Norwegian expedition reaches Svalbard, discovers the remains of a previous one

Prajwal T V

06 August 1912: NASA’s Curiosity lands on Mars

Ayush Bhattacharjee

08 August 1914: Endurance leaves England for Antarctica Expedition

Shifa Moideen

09 August 1965: Singapore declares Independence

Vol. 01, No. #05

L S Hareesh

Columbus sets sail for the first time, kickstarting a new era

Vaneeta

28 July 1821: Peru declares independence from Spain

Pummy Lathigara

28 July 2005: IRA announces the end of its armed campaign

Ms Ramya

28 July 1914: Austria-Hungary Declares War on Serbia, starting World War-I

Nivetha B

29 July 1958: The US establishes NASA

Leivon Victor Lamkang

29 July 1957: IAEA comes into force

Siddhima M

5 August 2011: Yingluck Shinawatra, becomes the first woman Prime Minister of Thailand

Pranesh Selvaraj

4 August 2007: The US launches Phoenix, a mission to Mars

Vol. 01, Nos. 03 & 04

Nandini Khandelwal

Saddam Hussein becomes the President of Iraq

Prajwal T V

US launches Apollo 11, with Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins

Ramya B

Hitler publishes “Mein Kampf” highlighting Lebensraum and anti-Semitism

Ronakk Tijoriwala

Five women organise the Women's Rights Convention in the US

Govind Anoop

20 July 1994: Lukashenko becomes the President of Belarus

Shreya Jagadeesan

23 July 2020: China Launches its First Mission to Mars

Rohit Paswan

24 July 1911: The Rediscovery of Machu Picchu

Nupur Priya

26 July 1965: The Maldives becomes independent after being a British protectorate for 77 years

Ashwini Barla

14 July 1789: The Storming of Bastille and its continuation

Karthik Manoharan

14 July 1789: The Storming of Bastille and the Start of French Revolution

Ramya B

14 July 1789: The Storming of Bastille and its Legacy

Prajwal T V

08 July 1497: Vasco Da Gama leaves Portugal, starting an era

Sayeka Ghosh

07 July 1978: Solomon Islands gains independence from British rule

Karthik Manoharan

05 July 1962: The Algerian War comes to an end

Prajwal TV

01 July 1968: US, Soviet Union, UK and 40 countries sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty

Mayank Bharti

05 July 1996: Dolly becomes the first mammal to be cloned

Ronakk Tijoriwala

01 July 2002: The Rome Statute establishes the International Criminal Court

Deepika Seervi

05 July 1962: Algeria declares its independence, ending 132 years of French occupation

Anu Maria Joseph

7 June 1893: Gandhi gets thrown out of a first-class train in South Africa, leading to his first experiment with non-violent resistance

Ronakk Tijoriwala

06 June 1944: Allied forces land in Normandy, turning the tide in World War-II

LS Hareesh

20 May 1948: Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer lands in Calicut in India’s west coast

Mugdha Chaturvedi

20 May 2002: East Timor becomes an independent country

Mallika Joseph | Adjunct Professor, NIAS

21 May 1991: LTTE human bomb assassinates Rajiv Gandhi

Lakshmi Karlekar

30 April 1975: Saigon falls to North Vietnam troops, leading to the reunification of Vietnam

Sayeka Ghosh

26 April 1986: Chernobyl nuclear accident

Karthik Manoharan

21 April 1526: The First Battle of Panipat leads to the emergence of the Mughal Empire in India

Nupur Priya

17 April 1895: The Treaty of Shimonoseki ends the first Sino-Japan War (1894-95)

Vaneeta

17 April 1975: Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh in Cambodia, establishing the Pol Pot regime

Ramya B

16 April 1917: Lenin issues “April Theses”

Ramya B

4 April 1968: Martin Luther King Jr assassinated

T C A Raghavan

March 1739: Nadir Shah invades Delhi

Karthik Manoharan

17 March 1992: The end of Apartheid in South Africa

Rosemary Kurian

18 March 2014: Russia annexes Crimea

Manasa G

14 March 1879: Albert Einstein born in Germany

D Rohan Kumar

11 March 1985: Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Sivasubramanian K

09 March 1776: Adam Smith publishes “The Wealth of Nations”

LS Hareesh

14 March 1849: The Sikh Army surrenders to the British

Ramya B

12 March 1918: Lenin shifts the capital to Moscow