Subramania Siva, independence activist, writer and associate of V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, was born at Batlagundu.
Subramania Siva was born on 4 October 1884 at Batlagundu in Madurai district. He joined the independence movement in the early 1900s and worked with Tamil activists such as Subramania Bharati and V. O. Chidambaram Pillai. He supported the Tanittamil movement, which sought to purge Tamil of loan words. He died on 23 July 1925.
Birth of V. O. Chidambaram Pillai
V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, later the founder of the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company, was born at Ottapidaram in Tirunelveli district.
Founded in Madras as a weekly, The Hindu was started by the Triplicane Six, among them G. Subramania Iyer and M. Veeraraghavachariar.
First Tamil novel, Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram, published
Samuel Vedanayagam Pillai published Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram, regarded as the first novel in the Tamil language.
Swadesamitran Tamil newspaper launched
G. Subramania Iyer started Swadesamitran, the first Tamil newspaper owned and run by Indians, in Madras.
Birth of poet Subramania Bharati
Subramania Bharati, a pioneer of modern Tamil poetry and a nationalist journalist, was born at Ettayapuram.
Death of V. O. Chidambaram Pillai
Nationalist pioneer V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, who had started the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company, died in Thoothukudi.
