| Date | Event Name |
| 12/01/1764 |
Battle of Anvadi. |
| 12/01/1885 |
Dattatreya Balkrishna Kalelkar, famous Gandhian Gujrathi llitterateur and educationist, was born at Satara in Maharashtra. |
| 12/01/1886 |
Raja Mahendra Pratap, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Musran in U.P. |
| 12/01/1894 |
Bhim Sen Sachar, freedom fighter, leader and Chief Minister of Punjab, was born. |
| 12/01/1900 |
Chidambaranar Thiru Thamizaringar, great author, journalist and homeopath, was born at Sirukadambur, Tamil Nadu. |
| 12/01/1911 |
Dayarnav Raghunath Kopardekar, founder of ""Indrayani Sahitya Prakashan Sanstha"", was born. |
| 12/01/1921 |
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, great nationalist leader, social reformer and freedom fighter was arrested by the British police for six months and sent to jail. |
| 12/01/1921 |
Des Raj Kalia, great librarian, was born at Fazilka, Punjab. |
| 12/01/1928 |
The first talkie filmshow, named as 'British Talkies' , was released on December 1, 1928, at Globe Theatres, Calcutta. |
| 12/01/1931 |
The Second Round Table conference that began in London ended. Congress was solely represented by Gandhi and Muslim League by Sir Allama Iqbal and Quaid-e-Azam, etc. Two committees were setup to carry out the work of the conference on Federal Structure and Minorities. Gandhi was the member of both committees. He claimed that being the sole representative of the Congress, he represented the whole of India. Quaid-e-Azam replied that Muslims are a separate nation. Sir Shafi demanded that the 14 points of Quaid-e-Azam be incorporated in future constitution. |
| 12/01/1932 |
A round-table conference on India fails to reach an agreement at London. |
| 12/01/1942 |
No. 8 Squadron was raised meanwhile, absorbing the remaining coastal defence flight personnel. |
| 12/01/1946 |
Australia compiled 645 vs India at Gabba. Bradman made 187 runs. |
| 12/01/1947 |
India all out for 58 vs Australia at Gabba. |
| 12/01/1951 |
Abanindra Nath Tagore, famous Indian painter and sculptor, died in Calcutta. |
| 12/01/1955 |
Nikita Khrushchev delivers speech condemning British colonialism. |
| 12/01/1960 |
Air Marshal Aspy Merwan Engineer DFC became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/07/1964. |
| 12/01/1963 |
Nagaland becomes the 16th state of Indian union. |
| 12/01/1964 |
Jawaharlal Nehru Agriculture University established. |
| 12/01/1965 |
Border Security Force was organised, which would be armed and trained to man the International Border with Pakistan. |
| 12/01/1966 |
Nagaland becomes a state of the Indian Union. |
| 12/01/1970 |
T. Swaminathan was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 02-11-1972 |
| 12/01/1974 |
Sucheta Kriplani, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, passed away. |
| 12/01/1982 |
Pakistan beats India to win hockey gold in the Asian Games. |
| 12/01/1985 |
Rajiv Gandhi concludes the first official visit to Japan by an Indian Prime Minister at Tokyo. |
| 12/01/1989 |
A 13-member Sikkim Sangram Parishad Ministry headed by Nar Bahadur Bhandari assumes office in Sikkim. |
| 12/01/1989 |
Dr. Chenna Reddi (Congress-I) becomes CM of Andhra Pradesh. |
| 12/01/1989 |
V. P. Singh is named the new prime minister. |
| 12/01/1989 |
National Front decides to form a government with outside support from the BJP and the Left Parties. |
| 12/01/1990 |
Vijayalaxmi Pandit, first Indian Lady Ambassador and Politician, passed away at the age of 90 years. |
| 12/01/1991 |
Stone laid for the Sanskrit University at Kaladi, the birthplace of Adi Sankara. |
| 12/01/1992 |
17 ministers of the BJP government in Rajasthan quit for the 'Karseva' at Ayodhya. |
| 12/01/1993 |
Tata Steel's Amit Bhaduria win's India's first gold medal in the 10th Asian Track and Field meet in Manila in discus throw. |
| 12/01/1993 |
World AIDS day. |
| 12/01/1993 |
Nirubhai Desai, freedom fighter, veteran journalist and socialist, passed away. |
| 12/01/1994 |
Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. |
| 12/01/1997 |
At least 61 persons, including 22 women and 17 children, belonging to SC and extremely backward communities are gunned down by banned private army of feudal landlords, Ranbir Sena, at Bathe-Lakshmanpur village in Bihar's Jehanabad district. |
| 12/01/1998 |
Dhian Singh (103), freedom fighter dies at Palampur, Himachal Pradesh. He was a member of the Indian National Army and was jailed a number of times during the freedom movement. |
| 12/01/1998 |
P. Subramaniam Poti (75), former Chief Justice of Kerala and Gujarat High Court, dies of a heart attack. |
| 12/01/1999 |
Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister, is named ""`Woman of the Millennium'' in a BBC pol |
| 12/01/1999 |
Supreme Court quashes a pending inquiry initiated by the Election Commission against former Union Finance Minister Manmohan Singh. |
| 12/01/2000 |
An armed intruder snipes at naval commando Satvir Singh at the official residence of the Navy Chief Admiral Sushil Kumar in the high- security Rajaji Marg area in New Delhi. The Navy sets up an enquiry board to probe the incident. |
| 12/01/2000 |
There would be a cap of 20 per cent equity for broadcasters planning to operate DTH television services, said I&B minister Sushma Swaraj. |
