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Madras Day – August 22
August 26 , 2020
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- This year commemorates the 381st founding of the city of Madras (now Chennai) in Tamil Nadu.
- Madras came into being on 22 August 1639, when East India Company signed the land deed in the village of Madraspatnam.
- It came under the control of the Mughals in 1687.
- In 1748, Madras returned to the British.
- Post-independence, Madras became the capital city of Tamil Nadu.
- In 1998, the city was renamed as Chennai.
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