Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: Ten lesser known facts about this day

New Delhi | Jagran Lifestyle Desk: The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre is one of the brutal and grim incidents in the history of mankind, which resulted in the death over 1,000 people. On this day, the British soldiers had opened fire into a crowd of unarmed civilians. The incident had occured 101 years ago on the day of Baisakhi, a Punjabi festival (April 13). Since then the people of this country remember the lives of the people who died that day.

On this occasion, Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared a tweet to pay his respect to the martyrs who lost their lives in the incident. "I bow to those martyrs who were killed mercilessly in Jallianwala Bagh on this day. We will never forget their courage and sacrifice. Their valour will inspire Indians for the years to come," he wrote on Twitter. 

Here are some of the things you must know about Jallianwala Bagh Massacre:

The incident took in an enclosed garden in Amritsar, Punjab and also known as Amritsar massacre.

Ahead of the above incident, an English missionary was attacked by angry mobs. The latter were protesting the arrest of two leaders of the independence movement. 

It forced Acting Brigadier Reginald Dyer to impose Martian Law. No public gathering was allowed but no public was not made aware of this fact.

People who entered the enclosed garden were celebrating Baisakhi-- annual harvest festival-- and were not part of any protest. Women and children were also part of the crowd.

As per reports, witnesses say no warning was given by the troops before opening the fire.

The enclosure had only one gate, which were covered by the British troops. This led to a large number of fatalities.

The Britishers did not stop firing till they ran out of ammunitions. They used rifles and two armoured cars with mounted machine guns.

A lot of people tried to escape guns by jumping into a well inside the garden and lost their lives.

Dyer was killed by a man called Uddham Singh--member of Gadar party-- on March 13, 1940.

Rabindranath Tagore, who wrote the national anthem of India, renounced knighthood by Britishers due to the massacre.