Industrial Age · South Asia · War
1857
Indian Rebellion Begins
May 10, 1857
At Meerut, sepoys alarmed by rumors that new cartridges were greased with cow and pig fat shot their British officers, marched to Delhi, and placed the aged Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah on a throne he had never really held. The Great Revolt had begun. For a year it would look as if the Raj might fall.
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Also in 1857 (3 other events on record)
- Dred Scott Decision · North America · Politics
- Recapture of Delhi · South Asia · War
- Cawnpore Massacre · South Asia · War
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.