1858 in India

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
 * 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
 * 1 November – the end of the British East India Company's rule in India is proclaimed

Dates unknown

 * Achipudava Samaram led by Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker in Alleppey, Travancore.

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.