Historical place archive

Allahabad in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Allahabad in India. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

7 records7 event labels3 people1765–1998

Historical events in Allahabad

1765

1765
Treaty of Allahabad
Shah Alam II · Mughal Empire

Shah Alam II concludes the Treaty of Allahabad and grants the East India Company the diwani revenue rights of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa.

1917

1917
Birth of Indira Nehru Gandhi
Indira Nehru Gandhi · Congress Party

Birth of Indira Nehru Gandhi, daughter of Nehru

1975

12 June 1975
Election
Indira Nehru Gandhi · Congress Party

A judge rules the 1971 election victory invalid because of aid by civil servants.

12 June 1975
Trial
Indira Nehru Gandhi · Congress Party

The Allahabad High Court invalidates Indira Gandhi's 1971 election, intensifying the political confrontation that precedes the Emergency.

1994

1994
S-Duality
Ashoke Sen · Physics

Ashoke Sen provides influential evidence for strong-weak coupling duality in four-dimensional string theory.

1998

1998
Stable Non-BPS States
Ashoke Sen · Physics

Ashoke Sen demonstrates how duality can identify stable non-BPS states in string theory and determine their properties.

1998
Tachyon Condensation
Ashoke Sen · Physics

Ashoke Sen develops influential ideas about tachyon condensation in unstable D-brane systems within string theory.

Provenance

About these place records

These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match India and Allahabad. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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