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On this day in Punjab

81 dated moments from the stories on this site, by the day of the year they fall on.

January

  1. 13 Jan 1849 Chillianwala — an attack through dense scrub without artillery preparation, and one of the Company's bloodiest days — Chillianwala, The Anglo-Sikh Wars, Battle of Gujrat
  2. 14 Jan 1945 Born — Surjit Patar
  3. 16 Jan 1630 Born — Guru Har Rai
  4. 26 Jan 1682 Born — Baba Deep Singh
  5. 28 Jan 1846 Aliwal — a clean British success — The Anglo-Sikh Wars

February

  1. 5 Feb 1762 The Afghan army catches the whole Sikh vahir — fighters, families and baggage — in the open near Kup Rahira — Vadda Ghallughara
  2. 10 Feb 1846 Sobraon — the decisive blow, against an entrenched position on the river — Battle of Sobraon, The Anglo-Sikh Wars
  3. 14 Feb 1902 The Amritsar memorial is unveiled — Saragarhi 1897
  4. 21 Feb 1849 Gujrat — two and a half hours of artillery, until the Sikh guns run out of ammunition — The Anglo-Sikh Wars, Battle of Gujrat
  5. 21 Feb 1915 The planned rising across Punjab's garrisons is betrayed by informers and suppressed — Ghadar Movement

March

  1. 3 Mar 1644 Died — Guru Hargobind
  2. 9 Mar 1846 The Treaty of Lahore ends the first war and takes the Jullundur Doab — The Anglo-Sikh Wars
  3. 12 Mar 1849 Sher Singh and Chattar Singh surrender near Rawalpindi; the Khalsa Army lays down its arms — Battle of Gujrat
  4. 14 Mar 1823 Died — Akali Phula Singh
  5. 23 Mar 1931 Died — Bhagat Singh
  6. 23 Mar 1988 Died — Pash
  7. 29 Mar 1552 Died — Guru Angad Dev
  8. 29 Mar 1849 Lord Dalhousie annexes Punjab — The Anglo-Sikh Wars, Battle of Gujrat
  9. 30 Mar 1664 Died — Guru Har Krishan
  10. 31 Mar 1504 Born — Guru Angad Dev

April

  1. 1 Apr 1621 Born — Guru Tegh Bahadur
  2. 4 Apr 1914 The Komagata Maru leaves Hong Kong with 165 aboard, chartered by Gurdit Singh to test the law head on — Komagata Maru
  3. 15 Apr 1563 Born — Guru Arjan
  4. 29 Apr 1791 Born — Hari Singh Nalwa
  5. 30 Apr 1837 Died — Hari Singh Nalwa

May

  1. 3 May 1718 Born — Jassa Singh Ahluwalia
  2. 3 May 1914 Sets course across the Pacific from Yokohama with 376 passengers: 340 Sikhs, 24 Muslims, 12 Hindus — Komagata Maru
  3. 5 May 1479 Born — Guru Amar Das
  4. 6 May 1973 Died — Shiv Kumar Batalvi
  5. 11 May 2024 Died — Surjit Patar
  6. 12 May 1710 Battle of Chappar Chiri — Chappar Chiri
  7. 18 May 2016 Canada apologises formally in the House of Commons — Komagata Maru
  8. 22 May 1878 Born — Gama Pehlwan
  9. 23 May 1914 Reaches Burrard Inlet off Vancouver, and is not allowed to dock — Komagata Maru
  10. 23 May 1960 Died — Gama Pehlwan
  11. 30 May 1606 Died — Guru Arjan

June

  1. 10 Jun 1957 Died — Bhai Vir Singh
  2. 18 Jun 2021 Died — Milkha Singh
  3. 19 Jun 1595 Born — Guru Hargobind

July

  1. 6 Jul 1914 The British Columbia Court of Appeal rules unanimously against the passengers — Komagata Maru
  2. 7 Jul 1656 Born — Guru Har Krishan
  3. 15 Jul 1913 The Pacific Coast Hindustan Association is founded at the Finnish Socialist Hall in Astoria, Oregon — Ghadar Movement
  4. 19 Jul 1914 Armed police try to board and are driven back with coal and bricks; the cruiser HMCS *Rainbow* is brought in — Komagata Maru
  5. 23 Jul 1914 The ship is forced to leave. Just 22 of the 376 were admitted — Komagata Maru
  6. 23 Jul 1936 Born — Shiv Kumar Batalvi
  7. 31 Jul 1940 Died — Udham Singh

August

  1. 1 Aug 1863 Died — Jind Kaur
  2. 16 Aug 1997 Died — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
  3. 22 Aug 1986 Died — Sobha Singh
  4. 31 Aug 1919 Born — Amrita Pritam

September

  1. 1 Sep 1574 Died — Guru Amar Das
  2. 1 Sep 1581 Died — Guru Ram Das
  3. 6 Sep 1838 Born — Duleep Singh
  4. 9 Sep 1950 Born — Pash
  5. 12 Sep 1897 Battle of Saragarhi — Saragarhi 1897
  6. 19 Sep 1960 The Indus Waters Treaty is signed at Karachi, brokered by the World Bank — Five Rivers
  7. 24 Sep 1534 Born — Guru Ram Das
  8. 27 Sep 1907 Born — Bhagat Singh
  9. 29 Sep 1914 At Budge Budge near Calcutta, police fire on the returning passengers; twenty are killed — Komagata Maru

October

  1. 6 Oct 1661 Died — Guru Har Rai
  2. 7 Oct 1708 Died — Guru Gobind Singh
  3. 13 Oct 1948 Born — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
  4. 20 Oct 1783 Died — Jassa Singh Ahluwalia
  5. 22 Oct 1893 Died — Duleep Singh
  6. 22 Oct 1909 The Anand Marriage Act gives the Sikh wedding rite legal standing of its own — Singh Sabha
  7. 30 Oct 1902 The Chief Khalsa Diwan is founded at Amritsar, uniting most of the local sabhas — Singh Sabha
  8. 31 Oct 2005 Died — Amrita Pritam

November

  1. 1 Nov 1913 The first Urdu edition of *Ghadar* appears from the Yugantar Ashram in San Francisco — Ghadar Movement
  2. 1 Nov 1966 Punjab, Haryana and an enlarged Himachal Pradesh come into being; Chandigarh becomes a shared capital — Punjabi Suba
  3. 2 Nov 1879 The Lahore Singh Sabha is founded, drawn from an educated middle class rather than the aristocracy — Singh Sabha
  4. 24 Nov 1675 Died — Guru Tegh Bahadur
  5. 29 Nov 1901 Born — Sobha Singh

December

  1. 5 Dec 1872 Born — Bhai Vir Singh
  2. 9 Dec 1913 The Punjabi edition follows — Ghadar Movement
  3. 16 Dec 1846 The Treaty of Bhairowal installs a British-controlled Council of Regency; her removal was the first British condition for signing it — Jind Kaur
  4. 18 Dec 1845 Mudki — a confused and costly British win — The Anglo-Sikh Wars
  5. 21 Dec 1845 Battle of Ferozeshah — Ferozeshah
  6. 22 Dec 1666 Born — Guru Gobind Singh
  7. 23 Dec 2000 Died — Noor Jehan
  8. 26 Dec 1899 Born — Udham Singh
  9. 29 Dec 1705 At Khidrana the forty stand against the pursuing Mughal force and hold it long enough to break off the pursuit — Mai Bhago