Friday, February 2, 2007

Timeline of the Indian Mutiny

Here is a rough timeline. I'll amend it, and add comments, as I go along:

Feb 25th, 1857. Incident (mutiny?) at Berhampore involving 19th Regiment Native Infantry.
March 29, 1857. Mangal Pandey mutinies.
April 8, 1857. Mangal Pandey hanged.
May 1857. Eighty five soldiers refuse cartridges in a parade.
May 9, 1857. The soldiers are sentenced to hard labor and fettered in front of the entire regiment.
May 10, 1857. The Meerut soldiers of the 3rd Light Cavalry revolt to rescue the eighty-five. Soon the entire cantonment of Meerut mutinied.
May 11, 1857. Mutineers arrive in Delhi.
May 19, 1857. Mutiny in Moradabad.
May 30, 1857. Mutiny in Lucknow. Quelled.
May 31, 1857. Mutiny in Bareilly.
May 31, 1857. Mutiny in Shahjehanpore.
June 3, 1857. Mutiny at Azimgarh.
June 4, 1857. Mutiny at Sitapur.
June 4, 1857. Mutiny at Benaras.
June 6, 1857. Nana Saheb controls Kanpur. Siege starts.
June 8, 1857. Mutiny at Faizabad.
June 28, 1857. Kanpur seige ends with the massacre of European population.
June 30, 1857. British troops, families withdraw into the Residency at Lucknow.
July 25, 1857. Revolt at Dinapore (Patna).
Sep 14, 1857. Storming of Kashmiri Gate by the British.
Sep 21, 1857. Bahadur Shah Zafar is taken prisoner. The Mughal Empire ends after 388 years.
December 10, 1857. Kanpur recaptured by the British.
January 8, 1858. Jung Bahadur’s Gurkhas join the British.
March 21, 1858. Lucknow is recaptured by the British.
April 2, 1858. Jhansi recaptured.
May 1, 1858. Death of Koer Singh, Rebel commander in Bihar.
May 7, 1858. Bareilly falls.
June 14, 1858. Rohilcund is in British hands.
June 27, 1858. Gwalior falls.
August 2, 1858. East India Bill given Royal Assent. East India Company rule ends.
August 8, 1858. Faizabad relieved.
October 5, 1858. Defeat of the rebels at Miranganj, Oudh.
October 7, 1858. Action at Sundeela, Oudh.
November 1, 1858. Royal Proclamation read all over India.
November 4, 1858. Battle at Rampore Kussiah.
November 9, 1858. Defeat of the rebels at Mehunde, Oudh.
November 11, 1858. Occupation of Amethi.
November 15, 1858. Occupation of Shankerpur. (Beni Mahdoo escapes.)
November 19, 1858. Occupation of Rai Bareilly.
November 24, 1858. Battle at Doun-de-khara.
November 7, 1862. Death of Bahadur Shah Zafar in Rangoon.

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