1858 in India
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Events in the year 1858 in India.
Incumbents
- Charles Canning, Governor-General, afterwards Viceroy
Events
- January â 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 â General Rose relieves Saugor; Campbell's Army of Oudh assembles on the Kanpur-Lucknow road to await Jang Bahadur's Gurkha army
- March â Lucknow is recaptured on 21 March; Central India campaign continues
- April â Battle of the Betwa; the city of Jhansi is stormed and captured (3â6 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 â 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 â 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 â suppression of guerrilla forces except in Rajputana and Central India
- October to November â Bahadur Shah travels from Delhi into exile at Rangoon[2]
- 1 November â 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 â Kaikhusrau Jahan, Begum of Bhopal (died 12 May 1930)
- 7 November â Bipin Chandra Pal (died 1932)
- 30 November â 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.
