The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre took place in the Jallianwala Bagh public garden in the northern Indian city of Amritsar on 13 April 1919. The shooting was ordered by Brigadier-General Reginald E.H. Dyer at a crowd of about 15000 - 20000 people, who had assembled at Jallianwala Bagh public garden in protest against a ban on all meeting ordered by General Dyer, who suspected that a major insurrection was on. In the firing, 1302 men, women and children were slaughtered. Some of them jumped into the well in the complex and thus perished. Some historians considered the shooting episode as one of the decisive steps towards the end of British rule in India.
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