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1857: The Indian rebellion against British East India Company, marking the end of Mughal rule in India. Also known as the 1857 War of Independence and, particularly in the West, the Sepoy Mutiny. 1858: The Mahtra War in Estonia. 1858: Pecija's First Revolt, in Ottoman Bosnia. 1858–61: The War of the Reform in Mexico.
The Anglo-Indian wars were the several wars fought in the Indian Subcontinent, over a period of time, between the British East India Company and different Indian states, mainly the Mughal Empire, Rohilkhand, Kingdom of Mysore, Subah of Bengal, Maratha Confederacy, Sikh Empire of Punjab, Kingdom of Sindh and others.
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.
Indian Rebellion of 1857 (3 C, 28 P) Insurgency in Northeast India (2 C, 48 P) Insurgency in Punjab (4 C, 37 P) J. Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir (4 C, 13 P) K.
This is a list of conflicts in Europe ordered chronologically, including wars between European states, civil wars within European states, wars between a European state and a non-European state that took place within Europe, militarized interstate disputes, and global conflicts in which Europe was a theatre of war.
Indian Rebellion of 1857 (3 C, 28 P) Iraqi revolt of 1920 (1 C, 15 P) Rebellions in Ireland (10 C, 23 P) ... This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Rebellions in Europe by country (30 C) + Kurdish rebellions by country ... Rebellions in India (9 C, 49 P) Rebellions in Iran (5 C, 17 P) Rebellions in Iraq (8 C, 23 P)
Map of India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The final spark was provided by the rumoured use of tallow (from cows) and lard (pig fat) in the newly introduced Pattern 1853 Enfield rifle cartridges. Soldiers had to bite the cartridges with their teeth before loading them into their rifles, ingesting the fat.