* 1639 – Madras ( now Chennai ), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.

The first marriage registered at the historic St. Mary's church, Chennai ( formerly Madras ), India, is that of Elihu Yale.

Yale president Arthur Twining Hadley penned the inscription, which reads: " On Pemberton Hill, 255 Feet North of This Spot, Was Born on April Fifth 1649 Elihu Yale, Governor of Madras, Whose Permanent Memorial in His Native Land is the College That Bears His Name.

* 1991 – Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.

* Fort St George, the first settlement of British India, is founded at Madras.

Madras is the former name of Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, India.

This fact is corroborated, by J. Sturrock in his South Kanara and Madras Districts Manuals, and also by Haridas Bhattacharya in Cultural Heritage of India Vol.

It is reached via winding hill roads or a complicated rack railway system, known as the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, built in 1908 by impassioned and enterprising British citizens with venture capital from the Madras government.

The reference point for flavour and spice heat is the Madras curry sauce ( the name represents the area of India where restauranteurs obtained their spices rather than an actual dish ).

" Khris Dillon The Curry Secret ISBN 0-710-0809-2 </ ref > for instance, vindaloo is often rendered as lamb in a Madras sauce with extra chilli, rather than the original pork marinated in wine vinegar and garlic.

The seat of the county is Madras.

* 1836-Plymouth Brethren begin work in Madras, India ; George Müller begins his work with orphans in Bristol, England ; Gossner Mission formed ; Leipzig Mission Society established ; Colonial Missionary Society formed ; The Providence Missionary Baptist District Association is formed, one of at least six national organizations among African American Baptists whose sole objective was missionary work in Africa.

Madras ( ) is a city in Jefferson County, Oregon, United States.

Originally called " The Basin " after the circular valley the city is located in, it is unclear as to whether Madras was named in 1903 for the cotton fabric called " Madras " that originated in the Madras ( now Chennai ) area in India, or from the city of Chennai, then known as " Madras ".

About 1963 the old high school is destroyed ( students now go to Madras ) and the elementary was again expanded to include an office, a library and two more classrooms.

Now a prison is being built in Madras and new homes are being built for its workers.

Road access is provided by U. S. Route 197 which crosses the Deschutes River in town at one of the few places the Deschutes can be crossed north of Madras.

This is especially prominent in India: BOM for Mumbai ( formerly Bombay ), CCU for Kolkata ( formerly Calcutta ), and MAA for Chennai ( formerly Madras ); in China: CAN for Guangzhou ( formerly Canton ), PEK for Beijing ( formerly Peking ), and TAO for Qingdao ( formerly Tsingtao ).

In addition to the aforementioned ( ready-made clothing in 1859 and the Button-Down Dress Shirt in 1896 ), other firsts Brooks Brothers brought to America include: English Foulard Ties ( introduced by Francis G. Lloyd in the 1890s before he was made president of the corporation ); The Sack Suit ( 1895 ); The Pink Dress Shirt ( before 1900, it became a sensation in the postwar period to go with charcoal-gray suits ); The Shetland Sweater ( introduced in 1904 ); The Polo Coat ( about 1910 ); Madras ( introduced from India via Brooks Brothers to the public in 1920 ); Argyles ( in the 1920s, Brooks Brothers became the first American retailer to manufacture argyle socks for men ); Light-weight Summer Suits ( the first lightweight summer suits made of cotton corduroy and seersucker were introduced by Brooks during the early 1930s ); Wash-and-Wear Shirts ( in 1953 the store pioneered the manufacture of wash-and-wear shirts using a blend of Dacron, polyester, and cotton that was invented by Ruth R. Benerito, which they called " Brooksweave "); and the Non-iron Cotton Dress Shirt ( 1999 ).

* Madras ( cloth ), a type of cotton fabric originating in Tamil Nadu, India

Madras today is available as plaid patterns in regular cotton, seersucker and as patchwork madras.

As part of his India Office duties Markham investigated and reported to the Indian government on the introduction of Peruvian cotton into Madras, on the growth of ipecacuanha in Brazil and the possibilities for cultivating this medicinal plant in India, and on the future of the pearl industry at Tirunelveli in Southern India.

On 10 May 1810, a squadron consisting of the 36-gun frigate HMS Caroline, formerly French frigate HMS Piedmontaise, 18-gun sloop HMS Barracouta, and the 12-gun transport HMS Mandarin left Madras with money, supplies and troops to support the garrison at Amboyna, recently captured from the Dutch.

Several competing models, although correctly dealing with the conformation of each individual peptide chain, gave way to the triple-helical " Madras " model, which provided an essentially correct model of the molecule's quaternary structure although this model still required some refinement .< ref > The packing structure of collagen has not been defined to the same degree outside of the fibrillar collagen types, although it has been long known to be hexagonal or quasi-hexagonal.

Yale amassed a fortune in his lifetime, largely through secret contracts with Madras merchants, against the East India Company's directive.

Three months later, Josiah Child and his deputy had an audience with James II, and as per the ensuing discussions, a Charter was issued by the king on December 30, 1687 which established the Corporation of Madras.

He was eventually removed in 1692 and replaced with Nathaniel Higginson as the President of Madras.

This was combined with British victories over the French at Madras, Wandiwash and Pondicherry that, along with wider British successes during the Seven Years War, reduced French influence in India.

Nehru's second term as general secretary began with the Madras session of the Congress in 1927.

He returned to form with 5 / 43 and 3 / 43 as India were defeated by an innings after being forced to follow on in the Fourth Test in Madras.

Again in 2011 a public interest litigation petition caused the Madras High Court Bench to grant permission to villagers of Kodaioor village to conduct a rooster fight during Deepavali coinciding with a local temple festival from the claims that the " villagers ' religious sentiments would be hurt if the cockfight was not allowed ".

In response, Hyder launched an invasion of the Carnatic, with the aim of driving the British out of Madras.

Munro was moving south with a separate force to join Baillie, but on hearing the news of the defeat he was forced to retreat to Madras, abandoning his artillery in a water tank at Kanchipuram .< ref >

* April 10 – Great Trigonometric Survey of India begins with the measurement of a baseline near Madras.

* The English East India Company expands its influence with the establishment of administrative districts called presidencies in the Indian provinces of Bengal, Madras and Bombay, the effective beginning of the company's long rule in India.

Captain William Heath with a naval fleet moved towards Chittagong but it was a failure and he had to retreat to Madras.

* George Stubbs ' Cheetah with Two Indian Attendants and a Stag ( 1764 – 1765 ) also shows the cheetah as a hunting animal and commemorates the gift of a cheetah to George III by the English Governor of Madras, Sir George Pigot

In India, the Branch depots in Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta were imposing establishments with sizable stock inventories, for the Presidencies themselves were large markets, and the educational representatives there dealt mostly with upcountry trade.

Louisbourg was returned to France in exchange for Madras, generating much anger among the British colonists, who felt they had eliminated a nest of privateers with its capture.

Kalam has a several honorary doctorates, but completed his formal education with the Master's degree from MIT, Madras.

Stephen Rumbold Lushington, the then Governor of Madras, who keenly felt the need for a cathedral exclusively for the British, in Ooty, laid the foundation for the church on April 23, 1829, to coincide with the birthday of King George IV.

The county owes much of its agricultural prosperity to the railroad, which links Madras with the Columbia River, and was completed in 1911, and to the development of irrigation projects in the late 1930s.

Due to repeated tie votes over several days ( with one vote each cast for Culver, Metolius and Madras ).