Abolition of sati in British India
1829 · Event
Lord William Bentinck outlaws the burning of widows.
On these timelines: India, Master, United Kingdom (combined), England
More from India
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Indus Valley Civilisation begins (3300 BCE)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Maurya Empire (322 BCE)
- British Raj (1858)
- Gupta Empire (320)
- Reign of Ashoka the Great (268 BCE)
- Delhi Sultanate (1206)
Around 1829
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- First passenger railway opens (1825)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821)