| 1944 | Mahatma Gandhi's wife Kasturba Gandhi died. |
| 1958 | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the country's first Education Minister, died. |
| 1845 | The East India Company bought Serampore and Balasore from the Dutch East India Company in 1845. |
| 1999 | India's popular economist Jagdish Bhagwati was appointed as the head of the Center for Indian Politics Economy in Columbia on February 22, 1999. |
| 2006 | Japan prohibited imports of all poultry products, including meat and eggs, from India in 2006. |