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.

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.

On 21 May 1991, Rajiv Gandhi was campaigning in favour of a UCPI candidate for the upcoming parliamentary elections in Tamil Nadu, when he was assassinated by a suicide bomber in the Indian town of Sriperumbudur, near Madras.

On way to Madras, at several places where the train would not normally stop, the people squatted on the rails and allowed the train to pass only after hearing him.

On 10 September, only six days after the arrival of the French force, Madras surrendered.

On 21 November 1855, Lord Harris dispatched a strongly worded communication to the then Rāja of Travancore alias Martanda varma ( Uttram Tirunal 1847 – 1860 AD ) that if he did not put a stop to his periodic re-incarnation as Kshatriya by squandering away huge sums of taxpayer ´ s money, among others, his state administration would be taken over by the Madras government.

On 4 September 1746, Madras was attacked by French forces led by La Bourdonnais.

On the expedition's return the process of restoring Madras was completed.

On October 19, 1952, an Indian independence activist and social worker from Madras named Potti Sriramulu embarked on a hunger strike reiterating the demands of the separatists and calling for the inclusion of Madras city within the proposed state.

On June 4, 1959, shortly after the Nagpur session of the Indian National Congress, Rajaji, along with Murari Vaidya of the newly established Forum of Free Enterprise ( FFE ) and Minoo Masani, a classical liberal and critic of socialist Nehru, announced the formation of the new Swatantra Party at a meeting in Madras.

When the Anti-Hindi agitations broke out in 1965, Rajaji completely reversed his 1938 support for the introduction of Hindi and took a strongly anti-Hindi stand in support of the protests, On 17 January 1965, he convened the Madras state Anti-Hindi conference in Tiruchirapalli.

On assuming the premiership of the Madras Presidency, he introduced prohibition throughout the province.

On 24 February 1713, Stanhope married Lucy Pitt ( 1692 – 1723 ), a younger daughter of Thomas Pitt, governor of Madras and the aunt of William Pitt.

On the southern side, the Madras and Garhwal battalions were not able to make it to the pavement around the pool because they were engaged by positions on the southern side.

On his arrival there the news that greeted him was that of the massacre of Kabul, and the sieges of Ghazni and Jalalabad, while the sepoys of Madras ( now known as Chennai ) were on the verge of open mutiny.

On 26 December 2005, the first anniversary of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, Mehta and the Bavarian State Orchestra performed for the first time in Chennai ( formerly called Madras ) at the Madras Music Academy.

On his return to India he worked as a railway guard at Bangalore and Madras and subsequently joined the government service as the plague officer at Bellary.

On June 3, 1681, Streynsham Master was replaced with William Gyfford as the Agent of Madras.

On 28 February 1868 he retired from service and he was given the honorary position of Deputy Inspector-General of hospitals in Madras on the 28th of October 1868.

On 4 December 1700, the Government of Fort St George banned cock-fighting and other traditional games regarding it as the foremost reason for the poverty of the inhabitants of Madras.

On a larger scale he supplied telescopes, mural circles and other astronomical instruments to observatories at Krakow, Madras, Cambridge, Lucknow, Calcutta, Edinburgh, Brussels, Greenwich and other places.

On an underprepared turning track in Madras, India won the toss and elected to bat first.

On July 20 the Regia Marina was defeated in the battle of Lissa.

On April 10, 1965 Marina del Rey was formally dedicated.

On October 3, 2005, in accordance with the wishes of his daughter Marina Denikina and by authority of President Vladimir Putin of Russia, General Denikin's remains were transferred from the United States and buried at the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow.

On 30 March 1966 Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent was formally installed as the first Chancellor.

On 12 October 1934, in anticipation of his forthcoming marriage to his third cousin Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark he was created Duke of Kent, Earl of St Andrews and Baron Downpatrick.

On 9 August 2003, an open air stage located 350 ft from the sea on the sands of the Marina called Seerani Arangam, constructed in 1970, which was used by religious groups and political parties to address gatherings, was demolished by the state government in order to modernise the beach.

On Grass, Mirza was crushed in the second round of Birmingham by Marina Erakovic.

On 27 April 2006, Rush was involved in the Marina Dalglish charity match, which pitted the 1986 FA Cup final teams of Liverpool and Everton against each other in aid of Breast Cancer Research, as Kenny Dalglish's wife Marina had been suffering from breast cancer and the proceeds from the match were being donated to the charity.

On April 1, 1994, Cobain visited Kurt at the Exodus Recovery Center, a rehab center in Marina Del Rey, California, where they played together.

On that day sailors of the Regia Marina ship Vittorio Emanuele and the destroyer Alpino landed in Karpathos.

On the same weekend, Comox also holds " Nautical Days " in Comox Marina Park, featuring an arts and crafts festival, a parade, a classic car show, the " Build, Bail and Sail " amateur boat-building competition and live music.

On June 3, 2006, Amarkhuu Borkhuu won with 61. 7 % of the vote over Marina Devyatova.

On 19 January 2012, around 12. 30pm, a track fault occurred between Promenade and Marina Bay.

On the left side of the Marina beach is Kiko beach.

* On March 12, 2003, original cast member Lynne Thigpen died at her Marina del Rey, California home of a cerebral hemorrhage.

On April 17, 1817, Spanish liberal Francisco Javier Mina and 308 volunteers arrived at Soto la Marina, Nuevo Santander, from London and New Orleans.

On August 11, 1945, at Cetăţuia Monastery in Iaşi, the priest Ioan Marina was tonsured a monk, receiving the patronymic Justinian and being ordained an archimandrite as well.

* On 21 October 1952, Brunei was visited by Her Royal Highness Princess Marina, the Duchess of Kent.

On May 12, 1912, during the Italo-Turkish War, Kalymnos was occupied by Italian sailors of the Regia Marina.

On 8 May 1606, Dmitriy had married Marina Mniszech in Moscow.

On 27 July 2007, the Land Transport Authority announced that approval had been given for the construction of a new 5 km long Marina Coastal Expressway ( MCE ) at a cost of $ 2. 5 billion.

On May 30, 2009, the night of the Rhinos ' 2009 home opener, Marina Auto Group, a Webster-based automobile dealership group, won the raffle.

On February 10, 2011, it was announced that the new name of the stadium would be Sahlen's Stadium after the deal with Marina Auto expired.