Indian Rebellion of 1857
1857–1858 · Event
Sepoy mutiny in Bengal becomes a general revolt against East India Company rule; suppressed; India placed under Crown.
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 1857
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- American Civil War (1861)
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- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) begins (1859)
- Lister introduces antiseptic surgery (1865)