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The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English-language daily broadsheet newspaper, is founded as The Bombay

The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English-language daily broadsheet newspaper, is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce

The Times of India (TOI) is an Indian English-language daily news and digital news media. It is the third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and the largest selling English-language daily in the world.

It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India and the second-oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation, with its first edition published in 1838. It is nicknamed "The Old Lady of Bori Bunder". It is considered a newspaper of record.

Near the beginning of the 20th century, Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, called TOI "the leading paper in Asia". In 1991, the BBC ranked TOI among the world's six best newspapers.

It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (BCCL), which is controlled by the Sahu Jain family.

Historical Significance

The Times of India (TOI) is an Indian English-language daily news and digital news media.

Events Before

  1. Canada grants its Black citizens the right to vote

    Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the second-largest...

  2. German composer Felix Mendelssohn (27) weds French clergyman's daughter Cécile Jeanrenaud (20), until his death in 1847

    German composer Felix Mendelssohn (27) weds French clergyman's daughter Cécile Jeanrenaud (20), until his death in 1847

  3. Charles Goodyear obtains his first rubber patent

    Charles Goodyear obtains his first rubber patent

  4. Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands

    Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands

  5. Michigan admitted as 26th US state

    Michigan ( MISH-ig-ən) is a peninsular state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwestern United States.

Events After

  1. Louis Daguerre demonstrates his daguerreotype photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences

    Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was a French scientist, artist and photographer recognized for his invention of the eponymous daguerreotype process of photography.

  2. English naturalist and "On the Origin of Species" author Charles Darwin (42) marries Emma Wedgwood (41)

    Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.

  3. First Grand National steeplechase at Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool: Jem Mason wins aboard 5/1 favorite Lottery

    First Grand National steeplechase at Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool: Jem Mason wins aboard 5/1 favorite Lottery

  4. Dutch prince Willem Alexander (later William III) weds cousin Princess Sophia

    Dutch prince Willem Alexander (later William III) weds cousin Princess Sophia

  5. Louis Daguerre's daguerreotype photographic process with complete working instructions is published "free to the world"

    Louis Daguerre's daguerreotype photographic process with complete working instructions is published "free to the world" in Paris as a gift from the French government

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Slave plantation owner Charles Farquharson begins his diary at Prospect Hill Plantation, Watlings Island (San Salvador),

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Curaçao census: 2,602 white people, 6,531 free people, 5,894 enslaved people

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German Zollverein (Customs Union) comes into effect

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First official horse race in South Australia takes place in Adelaide

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