Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Bhagat Singh across 4 places, from 1907 to 1931.
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Bhagat Singh (27 September 1907 – 23 March 1931) was an Indian anti-colonial revolutionary who participated in the mistaken murder of a junior British police officer in December 1928 in what was intended to be retaliation for the death of an Indian nationalist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Bhagat Singh was documented, and when
27 September 1907exact date
Faisalabad Districtattested“Bhagat Singh was born into a Punjabi Jat Sikh family on 27 September 1907, in the village of Banga, in the Lyallpur district of the Punjab, in what was then British India and is today Pakistan; he was the second of seven children—four so…”source: Wikipedia: Bhagat Singh
27 September 1907exact date
Lyallpurattested“Bhagat Singh was born into a Punjabi Jat Sikh family on 27 September 1907, in the village of Banga, in the Lyallpur district of the Punjab, in what was then British India and is today Pakistan; he was the second of seven children—four so…”source: Wikipedia: Bhagat Singh
1923year
Lahoreattested“In 1923, he joined the National College in Lahore, founded two years earlier by Lala Lajpat Rai in response to Mahatma Gandhi's non-cooperation movement, which urged Indian students to shun schools and colleges subsidized by the British…”source: Wikipedia: Bhagat Singh
1926year
Indiaattested“From 1926 onward, he studied the history of the revolutionary movements in India and abroad.”source: Wikipedia: Bhagat Singh
24 March 1931exact date
Lahoreattested“Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were sentenced to death in the Lahore conspiracy case and ordered to be hanged on 24 March 1931.”source: Wikipedia: Bhagat Singh
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May 1927month
Lahorementioned“Police became concerned with Singh's influence on the youth and arrested him in May 1927 on the pretext that he had been involved in a bombing that had taken place in Lahore in October 1926.”source: Wikipedia: Bhagat Singh
1928year
Indiamentioned“In 1928, the British government set up the Simon Commission to report on the political situation in India.”source: Wikipedia: Bhagat Singh
30 October 1928exact date
Lahorementioned“When the Commission visited Lahore on 30 October 1928, Lala Lajpat Rai led a march in protest against it.”source: Wikipedia: Bhagat Singh
1929year
Lahorementioned“In 1929, the HSRA had set up bomb factories in Lahore and Saharanpur.”source: Wikipedia: Bhagat Singh
21 January 1930exact date
Indiamentioned“He went on to say: "I think in India the idea of universal brotherhood, the Sanskrit sentence Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam etc., has the same meaning." He believed that: On 21 January 1930, during the trial of the Lahore Conspiracy Case, Bhagat…”source: Wikipedia: Bhagat Singh
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