daily dose of trivia for all the history buffs out there. So sit back and take a ride of all the fascinating things that happened today!
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in people, and hence, every day has been a significant one in the foibles of History. Let’s take a tour of “This Day in History – 16th of January”.
27 BCOctavian got the title of “Augustus”
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Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian was Atia’s son was the daughter of Julia, the sister of Julius Caesar. As per Roman History as well as the play, “Julius Caesar”, later, Octavian became the ruler of Rome after the death of Julius Caesar and got the title of “Augustus”.
After calling 1947 Gurkha treaty redundant , Pradeep Gyawali says Nepalese can join Indian Gurkha regiments Saturday, January 16, 2021 By: Times Now
After calling Gurkha recruitment a legacy of past and the 1947 tripartite agreement redundant , Nepal Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali has now said that the Nepalese can join Indian Gurkha regiments.
In July last year, Gyawali had said that the recruitment was the first window open for Nepali youths to go abroad adding that it created a lot of jobs in the society in past but termed some provisions as questionable.
Gurkhas, who originate from the mountainous region of Nepal’s Gorkha region, have been an integral part of the Indian Army for over six decades. There are 39 battalions serving in 7 Gorkha regiments as of now.
A London council has been hit by a backlash after renaming a road that honoured the hero of Lucknow Sir Major General Henry Havelock after the founder of Sikhism.
A section of Havelock Road - named after the military leader who has a statue in Trafalgar Square - was officially renamed Guru Nanak Road in Southall, Ealing, on Monday.
The change of the new road sign has sparked a furious row as critics called it airbrushing history and say it is the latest bid to try and erase Britain’s cultural heritage.
General Havelock led the British army to recapture Cawnpore in India during the siege of Lucknow in 1857.
Anne S. K. Brown Collection at Brown University, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain
When the Revolutionary War broke out, Benedict Arnold became one of America’s first military heroes. But within a few short years, patriots were comparing him unfavorably to the man who betrayed Jesus. As a disgusted Benjamin Franklin wrote to the Marquis de Lafayette, “Judas sold only one man, Arnold three millions [sic].”
That Arnold defected to the British army in 1780 is common knowledge. But before he switched allegiances, he engineered some crucial victories for the colonist rebels and, by all accounts, led a pretty interesting life. Here are a few things you might not have known about one of America s most notorious traitors.