Doctrine of Lapse
1848 · Event
Dalhousie annexes princely states whose rulers die without natural heirs.
On these timelines: Master, India
Around 1848
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Irish Potato Famine (1845)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)
- Sigmund Freud (1856)