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21st Century AD
September 11, 2020
Discovery of scripted Nocte pots
Namsang, Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
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September 11, 2020
Discovery of scripted Nocte pots
On September 11, 2020, Wangtum H. Lowang, founder of Nocte Digest, documented 6 early 19th Century scripted earthen pots belonging to Humchh...
Namsang, Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
May 4, 2020
Discovery of scripted Nocte stone tablet
Deomali, Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
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May 4, 2020
Discovery of scripted Nocte stone tablet
On May 4, 2020, a scripted stone tablet was recovered by Wangtum H. Lowang, founder of Nocte Digest, from a royal family of Namsang village....
Deomali, Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
June 8, 2020
Detection of first COVID Patient
Khonsa, Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
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June 8, 2020
Detection of first COVID Patient
On June 8, 2020, for the first time, a Nocte girl from Wathin village was found to be infected by the novel corona virus. She was asymptomat...
Khonsa, Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
May 21, 2019
Tirap Massacre
Pansumthong, Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
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May 21, 2019
Tirap Massacre
On May 21, 2019, former minister and incumbent Khonsa West MLA, Tirong Aboh was returning home from Itanagar when his four-car convoy was am...
Pansumthong, Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
January 26, 2017
First recipient of Ashok Chakra from Arunachal Pradesh
New Delhi, India
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January 26, 2017
First recipient of Ashok Chakra from Arunachal Pradesh
On January 26, 2017, Hav. Hangpan Dada was posthumously awarded Ashok Chakra, India's highest peacetime military decoration. The award was ...
New Delhi, India
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20th Century AD
July 1, 1997
Establishment of first government college
Charju, Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
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July 1, 1997
Establishment of first government college
On July 1, 1997, Tirap Degree College started its academic session. It was at Charju. It was inaugurated by Former Chief Minister Gegong Apo...
Charju, Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
December 12, 1996
Closure of timber industries
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December 12, 1996
Closure of timber industries
On December 12, 1996, a bench of Supreme Court of India led by Chief Justice J.S. Verma passed an interim order directing that tree-felling...
August 2, 1993
Inauguration of Arunachal's first Catholic church
Borduria, Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
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August 2, 1993
Inauguration of Arunachal's first Catholic church
On August 2, 1993, St. Mother Teresa visited Borduria, a Nocte village, and inaugurated the first Catholic church of Arunachal Pradesh. She ...
Borduria, Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
November 14, 1987
First bifurcation of Tirap district
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November 14, 1987
First bifurcation of Tirap district
Under the Arunachal Pradesh Reorganization of Districts Amendment Bill 1987, the Government of Arunachal Pradesh, formally declared the form...
November 19, 1976
Establishment of Ramakrishna Sarada Mission School
Khonsa, Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
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November 19, 1976
Establishment of Ramakrishna Sarada Mission School
Ramakrishna Sarada Mission School was inaugurated on February 17, 1973 and shifted to Khonsa in March 1975. The construction of present perm...
Khonsa, Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
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19th Century AD
April 1, 1876
First Anglo-Nocte Negotiations
Hukanjuri, Assam
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April 1, 1876
First Anglo-Nocte Negotiations
The First Anglo-Nocte Negotiations took place on April 1, 1876, where the Noctes successfully negotiated with the British to stop their puni...
Hukanjuri, Assam
January 1, 1860
First photograph of the Nocte tribe
Hukanjuri, Assam
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January 1, 1860
First photograph of the Nocte tribe
On January 1, 1860, Dr. Benjamin Simpson, an employee of the British East India Company, took the first photographs of the Nocte tribe.
Simps...
Hukanjuri, Assam
April, 1849
First grammar in Nocte language
Namsang, Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
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April, 1849
First grammar in Nocte language
In April 1849, a 26-page article was written by William Robinson, and the same was published by J. Thomas of the Baptist Mission Press in t...
Namsang, Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
August 1841
Abolishment of salt tax
Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
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August 1841
Abolishment of salt tax
In August 1841, the British government abolished all duties imposed by the Ahoms on the Nocte salt-wells and gave the tribe full autonomy to...
Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
1840
Publish of first Romanized Nocte book
Namsang, Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
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1840
Publish of first Romanized Nocte book
In an attempt to teach English to the Nocte children, Miles Bronson’s wife, Ruth M. Bronson, translated “Worcester’s Primer” into Nocte lang...
Namsang, Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
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12th - 18th Century ad
1747
Death of Lotha Khunbao
Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
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1747
Death of Lotha Khunbao
In 1747, Nocte chief, Lotha Khunbao, died at the age of 80. His spiritual guru, Sree Ram Dev also died on the same day.
Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
Circa 1717
Conversion to Vaishnavism
Sasoni, Naharkartia, Assam
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Circa 1717
Conversion to Vaishnavism
In circa 1717 AD, Nocte chief, Lotha Khunbao, and a few of his men accepted tenets of Vaishnavism in the presence of spiritual guru Sree Ram...
Sasoni, Naharkartia, Assam
November 1701
Third Ahom-Nocte War
Barhat, Assam
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November 1701
Third Ahom-Nocte War
During the reign of King Sukhrungphaa, another skirmish between the Ahoms and the Noctes took place in November 1701 in the salt-wells at Ba...
Barhat, Assam
July 15, 1692
Second Ahom-Nocte War
Mahang, Assam
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July 15, 1692
Second Ahom-Nocte War
During the reign of King Supaatpha, the Noctes committed a daring raid on an Ahom salt-wells on July 15, 1692 and killed 23 persons. A punit...
Mahang, Assam
March 21, 1667
Birth of Lotha Khunbao
Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
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March 21, 1667
Birth of Lotha Khunbao
Dr. Moheswar Neog in his book Asamar Janajati, and Prof. Atul Chandra Hazarika in his book Mancha Lekha, mentioned that, "from the book Sree...
Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
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Book The Native Tea NOW!!!
Authored by Wangtum Humchha Lowang, this book is based on the role of the Nocte tribe in creating the first Indian tea garden in 1834.