| 24
July 1888 : Sir
Asman Jah Bahadur, Prime Minister of Hyderabad visited the College. |
| 6
February 1889 : Sir
Syed along with his friends staged a drama in Aligarh Exhibition
to raise funds for the College. |
| 21
December 1889 : Trustee
Bill passed and Board of Trustees replaced the College Fund
Committee. Sir Syed was elected life Honorary Secretary and
Syed Mahmud life Joint Secretary.
|
| November
1890 :
Duty
Society was inaugurated at the initiative of Sahibzada Aftab
Ahmad Khan. |
|
1891
: Aligarh
Magazine started its publication under the editorship of Maulana
Shibli Nomani.
|
| 25June
1891 : The
brotherhood or ‘The Ikhwanussafa’ was set up. Its membership
was open to the present and past AMU students and teachers.
It was later on converted into Old Boys’ Association. |
| 29
December 1891 : The
Chief Justice of Allahabad Mr. Douglas Straight visited to inaugurate
the Law Classes. |
| 12
November 1894: The
Lt. Governor, Sir Charles Crosthwait, performed the opening
ceremony of the Strachey Hall. |
| 7
August 1895 : Sir
Allen Cadell, Governor of U.P. visited the College and presided
over the Annual Prize distribution function.
(Sir) Ziauddin received the Strachey Gold Medal for securing
Honours in Mathematics. |
| 27
March 1898 : Sir
Syed breathed his last at 10 P.M. His funeral prayer was performed
in the Cricket ground on 28th March. |
| 31
March 1898 : Efforts
started to make the College a Muslim University by Sahabzada
Aftab Ahmad Khan. |
| 31
January 1899 : Mohsinul
Mulk appointed Secretary of M.A.O. College and Syed Mahmud was
granted Life Presidentship. |
| 2
July 1901 : H.
H. Siyaji Rao Gaikwad of Baroda visited the College. |
| 10
August 1903 : A
deputation headed by Mir Wilayat Husain was sent to Iran, on
whose persuasion 12 students from the Royal family came to study
at Aligarh. |
| 7
March 1906 : Prince
of Wales visited the College and Science Section was established.
Sir Adamji Peer Bhoi of Bombay donated Rs. One Lakh ten
thousand. H.H.
Agha Khan and Raja Saheb of Mahmoodabad gave Rs. 36 thousand
cash and a grant of Rs. 64,611 per annum to the College. |
| 1
October 1906 : A
delegation headed by Agha Khan called upon Lord Minto, the Viceroy
and Governor General of India in Shimla to seek help in establishing
a Muslim University. |
| 16
January 1907 : His
Majesty Habeebullah Khan, Shah of Afghanistan visited the College
and announced a grant of Rs. 20,000. |
| 10
February 1907 : Sheikh
Mohammed Abdullah established Girls’ School, which in 1921 became
a High School and was recognized as Undergraduate College in
1937. |
|
1907
:
Students’ strike against European
Staff.
|
