| The Mughal army entered Srinagar where 'Khutbah' was being recited in the name of the emperor. |
| 7-October-1708 |
| Guru Govind Singh, tenth and the last Sikh Guru, was assassinated. |
| 7-October-1737 |
| 40 feet waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India). |
| 7-October-1914 |
| Begam Akhtar, famous gazal singer, was born. |
| 7-October-1919 |
| Mahatma Gandhij started publication of 'Navjeevan' newspaper. |
| 7-October-1950 |
| Mother Teresa, started Missionaries of Charity, in Calcutta. |
| 7-October-1952 |
| Chandigarh became the capital of Punjab. |
| 7-October-1953 |
| Chandigarh was inaugurated as capital of Punjab. |
| 7-October-1955 |
| Heavy floods in India and Pakistan caused 1,700 lives in India alone. |
| 7-October-1971 |
| K. Kelappan, freedom fighter, social reformer, revolutionary, educationist and journalist, died. |
| 7-October-1980 |
| Vijay Agrawal, Soccer(Football) player, was born in College Station, Texas, United States. |
| 7-October-1987 |
| Indian peace-keeping troops in Sri Lanka ordered to shoot at sight after the massacre of 179 people by Tamil rebels. |
| 7-October-1991 |
| Telugu Desam decides not to oppose PM Narasimha Rao in Nandyal. |
| 7-October-1992 |
| Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy, Union Law Minister, selected to become the new Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. |
| 7-October-1993 |
| The Supreme Court rejected private management's plea for 50\% quota in private professional colleges. |
| 7-October-1995 |
| Keshubhai Patel ministry in Gujarat won the vote of confidence in the state assembly following a compromise reached between the party leadership and dissidents. |
| 7-October-1996 |
| Final phase of UP election. |
| 7-October-1997 |
| Central government women employees to get 135 days' maternity leave and men to get 15 days' paternity leave. |
| 7-October-1997 |
| Indo-Russian programme of military-technical cooperation (1994-2000) to be extended till 2010, said Yeltsin. |
| 7-October-1997 |
| British High Commissioner in India Sir David Gore-Booth makes it clear that Queen Elizabeth II, during her Amritsar visit, would not 'apologise' for the 1919 Jallianwalla Bagh massacre, but as a gesture would lay the wreath. |
| 7-October-1997 |
| Lalram Sanga and Purnima Mohato emerge men's and women's individual champions in National Archery. |
| 7-October-1999 |
| Comfortable majority for NDA. Prime Minister Vajpayee starts work on Government formation. |
| 7-October-1999 |
| Long jumper Sanjay Kumar Rai became the first Indian man to go over the eight-metre twice when he leapt to a personal best of 8.02m at the National Athletic Circuit meet in Mumbai and sound a fresh threat to T. C. Yohannan's two-decade old national record of 8.07m. |
| 7-October-1999 |
| Sonia Gandhi won in Amethi by a margin of over three lakh votes. |
| 7-October-1999 |
| Laloo Prasad Yadav, former Bihar Chief Minister and RJD president, loses in Madhepura. |
| 7-October-2000 |
| WWF-India bags the first Rajiv Gandhi Wildlife Conservation Award. |