1858 in India

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Events in the year 1858 in India. Act of Parliament 1858

Incumbents

• Charles Canning, Governor-General, afterwards Viceroy

Events

• January – General Sir Hugh Rose begins the Central India campaign; Sir Colin Campbell begins the campaign to recapture Lucknow; trial of Bahadur Shah, King of Delhi, from 27 January ^[1]
• February – General Rose relieves Saugor; Campbell's Army of Oudh assembles on the Kanpur-Lucknow road to await Jang Bahadur's Gurkha army
• March – Lucknow is recaptured on 21 March; Central India campaign continues
• April – Battle of the Betwa; the city of Jhansi is stormed and captured (3–6 April); Azamgarh recaptured; advance on Kalpi (25 April); Campbell begins reconquest of Rohilkhand; Koer Singh leads a rising in Bihar; after his defeat he dies of his wounds
• May – Battle of Bareilly followed by its recapture; Battle of Kunch; recapture of Jagdispur; reoccupation of Kalpi; Battle of Mohamdi (24 May) and end of resistance in Rohilkhand; rebels begin guerrilla war in the jungle; Tatya Tope and the Rani of Jhansi outside Gwalior
• June – Gwalior army deserts to the rebels and Tatya Tope and the Rani of Jhansi seize Gwalior; General Rose marches from the Kalpi to Gwalior arriving on the 16th; next day the battle of Kotah-i-Serai and on the 19th the Battle of Gwalior; Gwalior fortress recaptured; during June guerrilla forces in Oudh, Bihar and along the Nepalese frontier are suppressed
• July to December – suppression of guerrilla forces except in Rajputana and Central India
• October to November – Bahadur Shah travels from Delhi into exile at Rangoon ^[2]
• 1 November – the end of the British East India Company's rule in India is proclaimed ^[3]

Dates unknown

• Achipudava Samaram led by Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker in Alleppey, Travancore. ^[4]

Law

• August - Government of India Act 1878

Births

• 20 July - Baba Sawan Singh, Second Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (died 2 April 1948).
• 9 July – Kaikhusrau Jahan, Begum of Bhopal (died 12 May 1930)
• 7 November – Bipin Chandra Pal (died 1932)
• 30 November – Jagadish Chandra Bose, physicist, biologist, botanist, archaeologist and science fiction writer (died 1937).

Deaths

• Rani of Jhansi Lakshmibai, Queen of Jhansi State (d. 18 June at Gwalior, now Madhya Pradesh)
• Nawab Majju Khan, Indian freedom fighter.

See also

• Timeline of the Indian Rebellion of 1857

References

1. Edwardes (1975), p. 141
2. Edwardes (1975), p. 143
3. Edwardes (1975), p. 145
4. "On the historical Achippudava Samaram and Mookkuthi Samaram". The Hindu. 7 April 2016. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 4 July 2024.

• Edwardes, Michael (1975) Red Year. London: Sphere Books; pp. 154–55 (events of the rebellion)