⚔ Battle
Rani Lakshmibai falls at Gwalior
1858 – present · 📍 Gwalior
Where it happened.
Meanwhile (within 10 years)
- 1849 ⚔ Punjab annexed · British East India Company
- 1856 ⚔ Awadh annexed · British East India Company
- 1856 Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act · British East India Company
- 1857 Revolt of 1857 begins at Meerut
- 1857 Mangal Pandey's attack at Barrackpore · British East India Company
- 1857 Rebels proclaim Bahadur Shah Zafar emperor
- 1858 Government of India Act — Crown rule begins · British Raj (Crown Rule)
- 1859 Indigo revolt in Bengal · British Raj (Crown Rule)
Alive at the time
Lalon Fakir
c. 1774 – c. 1890
Baul mystic poet of Bengal
Kunwar Singh1777 – 1858
Octogenarian leader of the 1857 revolt in Bihar
Mirza Ghalib1797 – 1869
Urdu and Persian poet of Delhi
Thomas Babington Macaulay1800 – 1859
Author of the 1835 Minute on Indian Education
Tantia Tope1814 – 1859
Guerrilla commander of the 1857 revolt
Bhanubhakta Acharya1814 – 1868
Adikavi of Nepali who translated the Ramayana
Alexander Cunningham1814 – 1893
Founder of the Archaeological Survey of India
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan1817 – 1898
Founder of the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh