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| 1857 |
| | | Animal fat on a new issue of cartridges sparks off the Indian Mutiny, also know as the First War of Indian Independence | |
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| 1857 |
| | | After being besieged for five months in Lucknow, the remnants of the British garrison finally escape | |
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| 1858 |
| | | Lucknow is retaken by the British, nearly a year after it fell to the rebels | |
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| 1858 |
| | | The end of the Indian Mutiny is followed by brutal British retaliation | |
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| 1858 |
| | | The India Act places India under the direct control of the British government, ending the rule of the East India Company | |
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| 1858 |
| | | The last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah II, is deposed by the British and exiled to Rangoon, in Burma | |
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| 1903 |
| | | Edward VII, the first British monarch to travel to India, holds a great coronation durbar in Delhi | |
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| 1906 |
| | | The All-India Muslim League is set up at a meeting of the Muhammadan Educational Conference in Dhaka | |
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| 1909 |
| | | Mahatma Gandhi, on a visit to India, publishes a pamphlet entitled Hind Swaraj ("Indian Home Rule") | |
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| 1911 |
| | | The British monarch George V holds a great durbar in Delhi to celebrate his coronation as emperor of India | |
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