Having paid in advance for an expensive contract in which local businessman Rajyadhar Konai agreed to build a new road, Herschel chose to take the full hand print of the contractor as his commitment to honour the construction.
British prisoners of war were imprisoned in the ‘Black Hole of Calcutta’ after the Bengali army captured Fort William from the East India Company.
The world’s earliest dated printed book, a copy of the Diamond Sutra, was created in China.
The Indian Mutiny, also known as the First War of Indian Independence, began in Meerut.
Troops from the British Indian Army committed the Amritsar Massacre when they opened fire on nonviolent protesters and pilgrims at Jallianwala Bagh.
By the start of the 17th century merchants from the Dutch Republic had begun to undertake voyages to the ‘Spice Islands’ of the Indian Ocean.
The Adi Granth, the original holy scripture of Sikhism now known as Guru Granth Sahib, was first installed at the Harmandir Sahib Golden Temple.
The death of Mumtaz Mahal, the chief consort of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, prompted her husband to construct the Taj Mahal.
Gandhi intended to produce salt from seawater to avoid paying tax and thus undermine Britain’s salt monopoly.
On the 28th July 1858 William Herschel, a British Magistrate in West Bengal in India, made the first modern use of fingerprints for identification.
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