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India History Timeline: 1801 - 1850



Year Rulers War and Politics Entertainment Literature Art and Architecture Science and Technology World Historic Events / Personalities
1801-1805 Governor-General of Fort William in Bengal: Richard Wellesley (1797–1805)
Charles Cornwallis (1805)
Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803) The India Museum opens in London (1801) Robert Fulton builds first submarine (1801)

Napoleon becomes King of Italy (1805)
The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women's Rights and Feminism in India 1800-1990
The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women's Rights and Feminism in India 1800-1990
1806-1810 Governor-General of Fort William in Bengal: Sir George Hilario Barlow (1805–1807) Braille invents reading system for the blind (1809)
1811-1815 Governor-General of Fort William in Bengal : Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (1807–1813) The Anglo-Gurkha war (1814-1816) The Indian Museum for art and natural sciences is established in Calcutta (1814) British-American War (1812)

George Stephenson designs the first steam locomotive (1814)

The first plastic surgery is performed in England (1814)

Joseph Nicιphore Niιpce was the first person to take a photograph (1814)
History Of The Political And Military Transaction In India During The Administration Of The Marquess Of Hastings 1813-1823
History Of The Political And Military Transaction In India During The Administration Of The Marquess Of Hastings 1813-1823
1816-1820 Governor-General of Fort William in Bengal: Francis Rawdon-Hastings (1813–1823) The Marathas are defeated in Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817 - 1818) The Ajanta caves are discovered (1819) Singapore founded by Stamford Raffles (1819)

Renι Laλnnec invents the stethoscope (1819)

Spanish Revolution (1820)
1821-1825 Governor-General of Fort William in Bengal: John Adam (1823)
William Pitt Amherst (1823–1828)
The First Burmese war (1824-1826) Death of Napoleon (1821) July 1,1822 - Mumbai Samachar, a Gujarati daily newspaper, is established.
1826-1830 Governor-General of Fort William in Bengal : William Butterworth Bayley (1828)
The Lord William Bentinck (1828–1833)
Death of Thomas Jefferson (1826)

Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone. (1827)

Russia begins war with Turkey (1828)

American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter (1829)

Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing (1829)

Frenchmen, B. Thimonnier invents a sewing machine (1830)
Birth of Mangal Pandey (1827)


Birth of Rani Lakshmibai (1828)

Raja Ram Mohan Roy Started Brahmo Samaj (1828)
Prohibition of Sati (1829)
1831-1835 Governor-General of India : The Lord William Bentinck (1833–1835)
Sir Charles Metcalfe (1835–1836)
Mysore administration taken over by East India Company (1831) Reappearance of Halley's comet (1835)

Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator (1835)
Death of Raja Ram Mohan Roy (1833)
1836-1840 Governor-General of India : George Eden (1836–1842) Samuel Colt invented the first revolver (1836)

Queen Victoria begins her reign (1837)

Samuel Morse invents the telegraph (1837)

English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp (1837)

Samual Morse invents Morse Code (1838)

Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle (1839)

Britain - China Opium War (1839)
Birth of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (1836)
1841-1845 Governor-General of India : Edward Law (1842–1844)
William Wilberforce Bird (1844)
Gwalior war (1843) Samuel Slocum patents the stapler (1841)

First use of ether as surgical anesthetic (1842)

Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile (1843)

American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine (1845)
A History of India
A History of India
1846-1850 Governor-General of India : Henry Hardinge (1844–1848)
James Andrew Broun-Ramsay (1848–1856)
Sikhs Defeated in Anglo-Sikh War (1846) Birth of Raja Ravi Varma (1848)


At the age of seven years he started drawing on the palace walls using charcoal.

Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction (1846)

Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics (1847)

Mexico City captured by US troops (1847)

Waldo Hanchett patents the dental chair (1848)

Walter Hunt invents the safety pin (1849)

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