# Timeline of the Indian Rebellion of 1857

A timeline of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, which began as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company's army on the tenth of May 1857 in the town of Meerut, and soon erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the Upper Gangetic plain and Central India.

## Timeline
### 1857

Events of 1857 :
| Date | Event |
| 26 February | Sepoys of the 19th Native Infantry at Berhampore refuse rifle practice |
| 29 March | At Barrackpore, in Bengal, Mangal Pandey wounds two British mutiny of 34th Native Infantry |
| 31 March | 19th Native Infantry disbanded |
| 8 April | Pandey hanged at Barrackpore |
| 24 April | Troopers of the 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry at Meerut refuse orders to fire greased cartridges |
| 2 May | Unrest at Ambala, 48th Mutiny at Lucknow |
| 6 May | Part of the 34th Native Infantry disbanded at Barrackpore |
| 8 May | Troops of the 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry found guilty by court-martial and given severe sentences |
| 10 May | Mutiny and Murders at Meerut, troops head towards Delhi |
| 11 May | Europeans, and Christians slaughtered in Delhi |
| 13 May | Bahadur Shah Zafar proclaimed new Mughal emperor; British disarm the garrison at Lahore |
| 17 May | Delhi Field Force, under George Anson, advances from Ambala |
| 22 May | Peshawar garrison disarmed |
| 20–23 May | Part of 9th Native Infantry mutiny at Agra |
| 27 May | Anson dies of cholera; replaced by Major-General Sir Henry Bernard |
| 30 May | Mutinies at Mathura and Lucknow |
| 31 May | Rohilkhand and Bhurtpore army mutinies |
| 4 June | Jhansi captured by rebels and handed over to Rani of Jhansi |
| 5 June | Cawnpore 2nd Cavalry Mutinies |
| 6 June | Cawnpore siege begins, Mutiny at Allahabad |
| 7 June | Wilson and Bernard meet at Alipore |
| 8 June | Battle of Badli-ki-Serai; Massacre at Jhansi |
| 11 June | Lucknow police rebels; Neill arrives at Allahabad |
| 25 June | Nana Sahib offers terms at Cawnpore |
| 27 June | Satichaura Ghat Massacre at Cawnpore |
| 30 June | British defeat at Chinhat; Lucknow Residency besieged |
| 1 July | Mutiny at Indore |
| 2 July | Arrival of Bakht Khan at Delhi |
| 4 July | Sir Henry Lawrence dies at Lucknow |
| 5 July | General Barnard dies of cholera;Major-General Thomas Reed succeeds as commander of the Delhi Field Force |
| 7 July | Allan attacks Delhi leading to the slaughter of Delhi |
| 12 July | Brigadier-General Sir Henry Havelock defeats rebels at Fatehpur, en-route to Cawnpore |
| 15 July | Allan goes to Barrackpore and assembles a large standing army of nearly 6000 men and prepares for battle |
| 15 July | Havelock defeats rebels at Aong and near Pandu river at Cawnpore. |
| 16 July | Nana Sahib defeated in first battle for Cawnpore |
| 17 July | Sir Archdale Wilson replaces the ailing Reed as commander of the Delhi Field Force |
| 27 July 1857 | Kunwar Singh welcomed pre-planed Dinapore cantonment rebellion army at Arrah |
| 27 July | Ammunition is blocked from reaching citizens instead it is re-routed to Barrackpore |
| 29 July | Havelock's victory at Unnao |
| 30 July | First relief of Arrah fails |
| 31 July | Lord Canning issues his controversial 'Clemency' resolution, by which he advises against the execution of mutineers not convicted of murder |
| 3 August | Siege of Arrah ends after action by Major Vincent Eyre |
| 5 August | Havelock's victory at Bashiratganj |
| 12 August | Battle between Kher Singh and Ayer Dil, near Jagdishpur |
| 13 August | Havelock withdrawal to Cawnpore; Colin Campbell, Anson's successor as Commander-in-Chief of India,arrives at Calcutta |
| 14 August | John Nicholson arrives at Delhi Ridge |
| 16 August | Havelock victory at Bithur |
| 18 August | Rupees 10,000 announced by Patna commissioner E.A. Samuels to apprehend Kunwar Singh |
| 17 August | Captain William Stephen Raikes Hodson defeats a large body of rebel cavalry near Rohtak |
| 4 September | Siege train, proceeding from Punjab, arrives in the British camp outside Delhi |
| 5 September | Suppression of the revolt starts as thousands are slaughtered and Allan moves to Bihar |
| 14 September | Wilson's assault on Delhi begins, Nicholson wounded |
| 15 September | Rebellion of Muzaffarpur announced to accept leadership of Babu Kunwar Singh |
| 19 September | Havelock and Outram marches to Lucknow |
| 20 September | Delhi captured and cleared of rebel troops |
| 21 September | William Hodson captures Bahadur Shah |
| 22 September | Hodson executes Mughal princes |
| 23 September | Nicholson dies of wounds |
| 25 September | First relief of Lucknow |
| 10 October | Agra mutineers defeated |
| 9 November | Kavanagh escapes from Lucknow |
| 14–17 November | Second relief of Lucknow by Campbell |
| 19 November | Women and children evacuated from Lucknow |
| 22 November | British withdraw from Lucknow |
| 24 November | Havelock dies of dysentery |
| 26–28 November | Windham defeated at second battle of Cawnpore |
| 29 November | Campbell reaches Cawnpore to join Windham |
| 6 December | Tatya Tope defeated at second battle of Cawnpore |
| Sources: www.britishempire.co.uk and Saul David, The Indian Mutiny |||||

### 1858

Events of 1858 :
| Date | Event |
| 6 January | Campbell reoccupies Fategarh |
| 16 January | Hugh Rose begins campaign in central India |
| February | Campbell opens separate campaign for reconquest of Oudh |
| 3 February | Rose relieves Saugor after a seven-month siege |
| 2 March | Campbell returns to Lucknow |
| 21 March | Last rebels removed from Lucknow |
| 1 April | Dividing his force, Rose defeats a numerically superior army under Tatya Tope on the river Betwa |
| 3 April | Jhansi captured and sacked |
| 15 April | Walpole defeated at Ruiya |
| 23 April | Rose enters Kalpi |
| 5 May | Campbell victory at Bareilly |
| 7 May | Rose defeats large force under Tatya Topi and the Rani of Jhansi at Kutch |
| 22 May | Rose wins at Kalpi;end of operations in Rohilkhand; start of guerrilla warfare |
| 28 May | Rao Sahib, Tatya Topi, the Rani of Jhansi and the Nawab of Banda enter Gwalior State with the remnants of their force and seize Gwalior on 1 June |
| 5 June | Death of the Maulvi |
| 12 June | James Hope Grant wins at Nawabganj in the final decisive battle in Oudh |
| 17 June | Battle of Kotah-ki-Serai, death of Rani of Jhansi |
| 19 June | Battle of Gwalior |
| 2 August | Queen Victoria approves bill transferring administration of India from the East India Company to the Crown |
| 1 November | Royal Proclamation replacing East India Company with the British Indian government and offering unconditional pardon to all not involved in murder or the protection of murderers |
| Source: www.britishempire.co.uk |||||

### 1859

Events of 1859 :
| Date | Event |
| 4 January | Various Oudh leaders, including Nana Sahib, forced into the Nepal Terai by Hope Grant |
| 7 January | Operations in Oudh declared officially over. |
| 29 March | Bahadur Shah found guilty |
| 7 April | Tatya Tope betrayed to the British, |
| 18 April | Tatya Tope executed at shivpuri. |
| 8 July | Peace officially declared. |
| Source: www.britishempire.co.uk |||||