Delhi proclaims the last Mughal emperor
1857 · Event
The Meerut mutineers ride through the night to Delhi and hail the 81-year-old poet-king Bahadur Shah Zafar — a Company pensioner with no army of his own — as Emperor of Hindustan. Overnight a soldiers' mutiny becomes a rebellion with a cause and a capital, and every eye in India turns to Delhi.
On these timelines: The Indian Rebellion of 1857, India, Master, United Kingdom (combined), British Empire
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