| January 2 |
1925: A Shaheedi Sacrifice Squad of Sikh settlers in Canada marched from Sri Akal Takhat to participate in the Jaito Morcha (agitation) at Jaito. |
| January 3 |
1588, 1st Magh Bk 1645: Foundation stone of Sri Harmandir Sahib was laid down by Sain Mian Mir, the spiritual head of QADIRIYA order of the Sufi's |
| January 4 |
1982: Gurbachan Singh, the chief of pseudo Nirankaris was acquitted by the Sessions Judge of Karnal of the charge of murder of thirteen Sikhs. Consequent upon it, the Sikhs lost faith in judiciary. |
| January 5 |
1924: Morcha for possession of lands attached to Gurdwara Bhai Pheru (Lahore District) was launched in A.D. |
| January 6 |
(a) 1973.: Jathedar Gurcharan Singh 'Tohra' was elected President of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee for the first time.
(b) 1989: Martyrdom of Sardar Satwant Singh and Sardar Kehar Singh the co-accused with S. Beant Singh who had gunned down Indira Gandhi, were hanged till death, throwing to winds all legal and moral norms. |
| January 7 |
1924: 62 Members of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee were arrested from the precincts of Sri Darbar Sahib. All these members were sentenced to imprisonment under Section 120, 121 (2) Indian Penal Code (Sedition) and Section 17 A and 17 B of Act of 1908 by Special order of the Governor of the Punjab. |
| January 8 |
1691: Baba Ala Singh S/o Baba Ram Singh was born at Phul in 1691 on this day. He was the founder of Patiala State, which included Barnala, Longowal, Sunam, Bathinda besides Patiala. He expired on August 22,1765 at Patiala. |
| January 11 |
1843: Maharaja Sher Singh and Amir Dost Mohammed Khan of Kabul met each other in A.D. 1843 and a treaty of friendship was signed between them.
1849: The Battle of Chellianwala (in Gujrat district, now in Pakistan) was fought (1849 A.D.) between the Khalsa Army of the Lahore Darbar and the forces of East India Company. The Sikhs gained upper hand in the battle but they lost finally in the battle of Gujrat, which led to the annexation of the Sikh kingdom by the British in 1849 A.D. |
| January 14 |
(a) 1704: Battle of Mukatsar was fought between the Guru Gobind Singh' s forces and those of the Wazir khan, Subedar Sirhind. The brunt of the attack was borne by forty men of the Majha who had deserted the Guru's ranks during the siege of Anandpur, but taunted by their own women who would not allow them enter their houses, they had come back to reinforce the Guru's small army. They all fell fighting but not before they had shown their mettle as the toughest fighters. When the Guru, at the close of the battle, came to know of the sacrifices of the Sikhs of Majha, he was deeply moved. He took out the paper on which they had written their disclaimer (Bedava and tore it up as a sign of forgiveness. The Guru gave each of them the prestigious honorific of Mukta - Emancipated one. They are remembered in the daily prayer of the Sikhs as forty Muktas. (A.D. 1704)
(b) 1914: Acute wrath among the Sikhs at the dismantling of the wall of historic Gurdwara Rakab Ganj by the British Government (A.D. 1914).
(c) 1764: The Sikhs conquered Sirhind in 1764 where two younger sons of Guru Gobind Singh Ji had been bricked up alive. To give expression to their moral rage at the destruction and desecration of Sri Harimandar Sahib by Ahmed Shah Abdali and also to establish Khalsa rule, they wrought havoc on Sirhind |
| January 16 |
1630: Birthday of Sri Guru Har Rai Ji (A.D. 1630). |
| January 17 |
(a) 1766: Jahan Khan, Ahmed Shah Abdali's Commander of the Afghan forces, attacked Amritsar in 1766. Dal Khalsa, under the command of Sardar Jassa Singh Ahluwalia, Hira Singh, Lehna Singh and Gajjan Singh routed the Afghans at the place now known as Putligarh then situated on the outskirts of Amritsar.
(b) 1927: Through a notification of A.D. 1927, the government of Punjab accepted the name 'Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee' to be given to the Central Board of Management, which had been constituted as per Sikh Gurdwaras Act, 1925.
(c) 1975: Shiromani Akali Dal came Out with flying 'colours in its Morcha on this date in 1977 against the emergency clamped by Shrimati Indira Gandhi in A.D. 1975.
(d) 1872: Fifty Namdhari Sikhs were blasted by guns on the charge of fomenting sedition against the British government on the order of Cowan, the deputy commissioner of Ludhiana (A.D. 1872). |
| January 18 |
(a) Sixteen more Kookas (Namdhari Sikhs were blown off by the guns on the charge of fomenting sedition against the British.
(b) 1661: Birthday of Bhai Himmat Singh. He was born this day in A.D. 1661 to Gulzari and Bibi Dhanno at Jagan Nath Puri in Orissa. He offered his head in response to the call of Guru Gobind Singh on 30th March, 1699 and was blessed with the honorific Pyara-the dearest one. He was administered Pahul by the Guru and then he, as one of the five Pyaras (beloved disciples), administered Pahul to Guru. He died fighting in 1704 in the battle of Chamkaur.
(c) 1841: Maharaja Sher Singh became Maharaja (A.D. 1841). He was assassinated along with his son by Ajit Singh Sandhawalia on September 15, 1843
(d) 1872: Baba Ram Singh, the Chief of the Namdharis was deported to Rangoon in Burma in 1872 where he died on November 29, 1885. |
| January 19 |
(a) 1921: The keys of Tosha Khana Sri Harmandir Sahib Amritsar, which had been forcibly seized by Govt. in 1921, were returned to Baba Kharak Singh, President of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee wrapped in a piece of red cloth by a gazetted official of Punjab Government in A.D, 1922 right in the congregation being held in front of Sri Akal Takhat Sahib. The air became thick with shouts of Sat Sri Akal.
(b) 1935: Martyrdom of Sardar Sewa Singh Thikriwala (A.D. 1935) after a protracted fast
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| January 20 |
(a) 1926: The judgement in the Babbar Akali case was announced this day in 1926, as a result of which five Babbar Akalis were ordered to be hanged till death, eleven were sentenced to life imprisonment and 38 to four years. The Babbar Akalis who numbered nearly ninety were great freedom fighters committed to high principles. They believed in violent struggle against the British to liberate their country from their stranglehold. They had resolved to kill fifth columnists among the freedom fighters, toadies and loyalists of the British.
(b) 1841: Sher Singh, the son of Maharaja Ranjit Singh was coronated on this day in 1841 at the age of 34. He and his minor son Partap Singh, was killed on 15th September, 1843 by Sandhawalias, Ajit Singh and Lehna Singh. He was born in 1807 and his mother's name was Mehtab Kaur. |
| January 31 |
(a) 1922: The Management of Gurdwara Guru Ka Bagh was taken over from mahant Sunder Das and handed over to Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandtyak Committee after a protracted agitation of the Akalis (A.D. 1922).
(b) 1927: A great Sikh Savant Attar Singh (Sant) passed away (A.D. 1927) at SANGRUR |
