22 MAR HISTORY EVENTS
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Events for March 22
22-March-1709
It is assumed that Goswami Tulsidas started writing his great epic 'Ramcharitmanas' in Samvat 1631.
22-March-1739
Nadir Shah entered Delhi. He gave the signal to one of his soldiers from Sunheri mosque.
22-March-1793
Lord Cornwallis promulgated permanent settlement in Bengal and Bihar to fix the revenue amounts once and for all to be paid by the zamindars every year.
22-March-1885
Gulam Yazdani, great archaeologist and critic, was born.
22-March-1893
Surya Sen, alias Masterda, revolutionary freedom fighter, was born.
22-March-1902
Great Britain and Persia agree to link Europe and India by telegraph.
22-March-1906
Bhagwant Bhikaji Samant, educationalist, was born.
22-March-1907
Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliam
22-March-1914
M. L. Bhowmik, social reformer and politician, was born Kailashahar, Tripura.
22-March-1915
Dr. Nagendra, famous hindi critic, was born.
22-March-1932
Indian Muslims break with Great Britain.
22-March-1933
M.V.Nagendra, cricket test umpire for 11 tests from 1963-77, was born at Karnataka.
22-March-1938
IRFA was registered as a local body not administered by the Government on March 22, 1938 under the Government of India Act No. XXI of 1860.
22-March-1942
Both Congress and Muslim League refused Cripps Mission offer. Congress adopts Quit India Resolution. Cripps Commission came to India which was preceded by Sir Stephard Crips to find out a political formula for transfer of power to Indians.
22-March-1947
India's Last Viceroy Lord Louise Mountbatten came to India.
22-March-1949
SSC Examination system started.
22-March-1957
National Calander based on Saka Samvat was adopted. As per this calander, the date of adoption was ""Chaitra first, 1879 Saka along with Gregorian.
22-March-1961
Jual Teria Dilga Oram was born in Kendudihi, Distt. Sundargarh (Orissa).
22-March-1963
World Bank loans India $ 67 mil. to improve its railways.
22-March-1964
200 die in communal violence in the industrial towns of Jamshedpur and Rourkela.
22-March-1969
The first public sector petrochemical organisation was inaugurated.
22-March-1971
Shri Hanuman Prasad Poddar, great social reformer, revolutionary and poet, passed away.
22-March-1977
Indira Gandhi-led Indian National Congress party lost the 6th general election of India. She resigned as Pime Minister of India.
22-March-1977
Janata and its allies gain absolute majority in Lok Sabha.
22-March-1977
Ayillyath Kuttiari Goplan, freedom fighter, social reformer and Marxist leader, passed away in Trivandrum.
22-March-1991
Chautala sworn in as Haryana CM.
22-March-1991
President withholds assent to the pension bill of Members of Parliament.
22-March-1993
The Lok Sabha passes the Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill, 1993 and the Dentists (Amendment) Bill, 1993.
22-March-1996
Golden Temple renamed Harmandir Sahib (its original name meaning 'abode of God').
22-March-1997
Deshabhimani daily, official organ of CPI (M), launches its 5th edition from Kottayam, Kerala.
22-March-1999
57 prisoners in Indian and Pakistan jails are repatriated to their respective motherlands at the Attari-Wagah joint checkpost on the border in Amristar district.
22-March-1999
Punjab men, Railway women emerged National basketball champions in Jaipur.
22-March-2000
INSAT-3B launched.
22-March-2000
India's first third generation satellite 'Insat-3B' put in orbit by Europe's latest Ariane-5 rocket from Kourou in French Guyana.
22-March-2000
P.Shanmugham sworn in Chief Minister of Pondicherry.