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Filter by kind Battle/War 6 Law/Act 19 Revolt 9 Movement 2 Institution 17 Press 5 Person 11 Event 28 With notes 97 1850s · 46 events 1857–1858 Revolt of 1857 ends Company rule; the Crown takes over India ≡ 1857 Meerut sepoys proclaim Bahadur Shah II Emperor of Hindustan ≡ 1857 Sepoys of the Bengal Army rise in the Great Revolt of 1857 ≡ 1857 Talukdars of Oudh join the Revolt ≡ 1857 Viceroy Lord Canning reinstates the Oudh talukdars ≡ 1857 The Company issues the new Enfield rifle to the Bengal Army ≡ 1857 Mangal Pandey was hanged on 8 April, but the 34th was disbanded on 6 May 1857 ≡ 1857 Maharaja Gulab Singh of Jammu and Kashmir died on 30 June 1857 ≡ 1857 The Danapur sepoys mutinied on 25 July 1857 ≡ 1857 General Havelock retook Kanpur on 17 July 1857 ≡ 1857 Sir Syed Ahmed Khan stays loyal through the revolt ≡ 1857 Sikh regiments help the British suppress the revolt of 1857 ≡ 1857 Baba Ram Singh formally launched the Namdhari sect on Baisakhi, 12 April 1857 ≡ 1857 Universities of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras established ≡ Mar 1857 Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Native Infantry attacks British officers at Barrackpore ≡ Apr 1857 Mangal Pandey is hanged on 8 April ≡ 9 May 1857 Outbreak at Meerut: sepoys free 85 shackled sowars of the 3rd Light Cavalry ≡ 11 May 1857 Mutineers reach Delhi and proclaim Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar nominal Emperor of Hindustan ≡ Jun 1857 Siege of Delhi begins under General Sir Henry Barnard ≡ Jun 1857 Nana Sahib takes Kanpur from General Wheeler with Tantia Tope ≡ Jul 1857 Sir Henry Lawrence dies early in the siege of the Lucknow Residency ≡ Sep 1857 General Henry Havelock and Sir James Outram fight into the Lucknow Residency ≡ 14 Sep 1857 The British storm Delhi on 14 September under Archdale Wilson ≡ Nov 1857 Sir Colin Campbell relieves and evacuates the Lucknow Residency ≡ Dec 1857 Sir Colin Campbell retakes Kanpur; Nana Sahib disappears, his fate unknown ≡ 1858 Parliament's Government of India Act of 1858 ended Company government ≡ 1858 Raja Jagannath Singh of Powayan shoots Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah of Faizabad ≡ 1858 Sir Colin Campbell retakes Bareilly and Khan Bahadur Khan's Rohilkhand falls ≡ 1858 Government of India Act 1858 transfers India ≡ 1858 Peel Commission fixes the army at about 1:2 European to Indian in Bengal ≡ 1858 The Crown stops annexations and rewards loyal princes such ≡ 1858 Kunwar Singh severed his own arm ≡ 1858–1859 Sir Syed Ahmed Khan writes 'Asbab-e-Baghawat-e-Hind' ≡ Mar 1858 Sir Colin Campbell reconquers Lucknow in street fighting ≡ Mar 1858 Sir Hugh Rose's Central India Field Force assaults Jhansi ≡ Apr 1858 Sir Hugh Rose's Central India Field Force storms Jhansi ≡ Apr 1858 Kunwar Singh of Jagdispur dies in Bihar ≡ May 1858 Sir Hugh Rose defeats Tantia Tope and Rani Lakshmibai's rebels at Kalpi ≡ Jun 1858 Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi is killed fighting the British cavalry at Gwalior ≡ 1 Nov 1858 Queen's Proclamation: Queen Victoria assumes direct rule of India ≡ 1859 Bengal ryots begin the Indigo revolt against the European planters ≡ 1859 Bengal Rent Act (Act X of 1859) passed under Canning ≡ 1859 Sir Syed Ahmed Khan opened the Moradabad school in 1859 ≡ Apr 1859 Rebel general Tantia Tope is captured and hanged at Shivpuri ≡ Apr 1859 Tatya Tope is hanged by the British after Man Singh of Narwar betrays him ≡ Jul 1859 Viceroy Lord Canning's forces suppress the last guerrilla bands in Bihar ≡ 1860s · 14 events 1860 Viceroy Lord Canning's Legislative Council enacts the Indian Penal Code ≡ 1861 Viceroy Lord Canning's Police Act (Act V of 1861) creates the structured provincial police ≡ 1861 Vishnu Shastri Pandit founds the Widow Remarriage Association at Bombay ≡ 1861 Indian Councils Act 1861 brings nominated Indians ≡ 1862 The High Courts of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras were established in 1862 ≡ Nov 1862 Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal Emperor, dies in exile at Rangoon ≡ 1863–1902 Narendranath Datta, the future Swami Vivekananda, is born at Calcutta ≡ 1864 Sir Syed Ahmed Khan founds the Scientific Society at Ghazipur to translate Western works into Urdu ≡ 1865 Edwin Arnold, the English poet and journalist ≡ 1866 Brahmo Samaj splits into Debendranath Tagore's Adi ≡ 1866 Maulana Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi and Rashid Ahmad Gangohi found the Darul Uloom Deoband ≡ 1867 Dr. Atmaram Pandurang founds the Prarthana Samaj at Bombay ≡ 1868 Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh found the Amrita Bazar Patrika near Jessore, in Bengali ≡ 1869 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is born on 2 October at Porbandar ≡ 1870s · 20 events 1870 Viceroy Lord Mayo's Resolution on financial decentralisation ≡ 1872 Deputy Commissioner Cowan blows 65 Namdhari (Kuka) Sikhs ≡ 1873 Jyotirao (Jyotiba) Phule founds the Satyashodhak Samaj at Pune ≡ 1873 Sikh elites found the first Singh Sabha at Amritsar ≡ 1874 The East India Company itself was not wound up until 1874 ≡ 1874 Sasipada Banerjee began his workers' paper Bharat Shramajibi in 1874 ≡ 1875 Swami Dayanand Saraswati writes Satyarth Prakash (The Light of Truth) ≡ 1875 Swami Dayanand Saraswati founds the Arya Samaj at Bombay ≡ 1875 Madame H. P. Blavatsky and Colonel Henry Olcott found the Theosophical Society at New York ≡ 1875 Sir Syed Ahmed Khan founds the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental (MAO) College at Aligarh ≡ 1876 Surendranath Banerjea and Anandamohan Bose found the Indian Association at Calcutta ≡ 1876 Royal Titles Act confers the title Empress of India on Queen Victoria ≡ 1877 Viceroy Lord Lytton's Delhi Durbar proclaims Victoria Empress of India ≡ 1878 Sivanath Sastri and Ananda Mohan Bose form the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj ≡ 1878 Viceroy Lord Lytton's Vernacular Press Act gags the Indian-language press ≡ 1878 G. Subramania Iyer and five associates found The Hindu at Madras ≡ 1879–1880 Rampa rebellion: the muttadars and hill chiefs of Rampa rise in the Vizag Agency ≡ 1879 Blavatsky and Olcott landed in Bombay in February 1879 ≡ 1879 Viceroy Lord Lytton's government passes the Deccan Agriculturists' Relief Act to protect peasants from moneylenders ≡ 1879 Vasudev Balwant Phadke raises an armed band near Pune ≡ 1880s · 17 events 1880 Lord Ripon becomes Viceroy under Gladstone's Liberal ministry ≡ 1880 Famine Commission under Richard Strachey reports ≡ 1880 Kandukuri Veeresalingam's first widow remarriage in Andhra ≡ 1881 First Indian Factory Act passed under Viceroy Ripon ≡ 1881 First synchronous all-India census taken under Ripon ≡ 1881 Rendition of Mysore: Ripon restores the state to the Wadiyar dynasty ≡ 1881 Kandukuri Veeresalingam performed his first widow remarriage at Rajahmundry on 11 December 1881 ≡ 1881 Bal Gangadhar Tilak starts Kesari in Marathi and Mahratta in English at Poona ≡ 1882 Blavatsky and Olcott establish the Theosophical Society's headquarters at Adyar, Madras ≡ 1882 Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati starts the Arya Mahila Samaj at Pune ≡ 1882–1883 Viceroy Lord Ripon appoints the First Indian Education Commission ≡ 1882 Viceroy Lord Ripon repeals the Vernacular Press Act ≡ 1883 Swami Dayanand Saraswati died in 1883 at Ajmer ≡ 1883 Ilbert Bill controversy under Viceroy Lord Ripon ≡ 1883 Vasudev Balwant Phadke dies in jail at Aden after a hunger strike ≡ 1884 M. Viraraghavachariar, G. Subramania Iyer ≡ 1884 Vishnu Krishna Chiplunkar, Tilak, Agarkar ≡
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