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List of events
Events in the year 1866 in India.
Incumbents
- Sir
John Lawrence,
Governor-General of India, 12 January 1864 – 12 January 1869
- Colonel
Edmund Haythorne,
Adjutant-General of India, 22 June 1860–January 1866
- Colonel
Henry Errington Longden, Adjutant-General of India, January 1866–March 1869
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Lord Napier,
Governor of Madras, 1866-1872
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Ram Singh II, Maharao of
Kota State, 20 July 1828 – 27 March 1866
- Chhatar Sal Singh II, Maharao of Kota State, 27 March 1866 – 11 June 1889
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Sagramji II Devaji (Sagramji Bhanabhai), Thakur of
Gondal State, 1851-14 December 1869
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Bham Pratap Singh, Raja and Maharajah of
Bijawar State, 23 November 1847 – 15 September 1899
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Shri Singh, Raja of
Chamba State, 1844-1870
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Ranmalsinhji Amarsinhji, Raj Sahib of
Dhrangadhra State, 9 April 1843 – 16 October 1869
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Madan Pal, Maharaja of
Karauli State, 4 March 1854 – 16 August 1869
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Hiravajra Singh Deo, Maharajah of
Patna, 1848-August 1866
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Pratap Singh Deo, Maharajah of Patna, 1866-1878
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Cecil Beadon, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, 1862-1866
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Afzal ad-Dawlah, Asaf Jah V,
Nizam of Hyderabad, 16 May 1857 – 26 February 1869
- Robert Milman, consecrated bishop of
Trichy-Tanjore Diocese of the Church of South India
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Charles Pelly, revenue member of the
Madras Legislative Council, 1862-1866
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William Reierson Arbuthnot, member of the Madras Legislative Council, 1866-1870
Events
- East India Association, founded by Dadabhai Naoroji
- 47 million people were affected by the
Orissa famine of 1866
-
Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi established the
Darul Uloom Deoband on 31 May 1866, founding the
Deobandi movement
- Nanotvi founded
Mazahir Uloom Saharanpur in November
-
Khursheed Ali Khan established
Jamia-e-Imania on 15 December in Varanasi
-
Brahmoism split into the new
Sadharan Brahmo Samaj sect
-
Allahabad High Court was established as the High Court of Judicature for the
North-Western Provinces at
Agra on 17 March
-
Naga Hills was given
district status
[1]
- British Indian administration established a post at Samaguting to end intertribal warfare and tribal raids on property and personnel in
Nagaland
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Government Victoria College, Palakkad was established in
Kerala
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Gossner Theological College Seminary was established in
Jharkhand
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St. Mary's Convent Inter College was established in
Allahabad,
Uttar Pradesh
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Harish Chandra Postgraduate College opened on 1 April in
Varanasi district,
Uttar Pradesh
-
Christ Church College, Kanpur opened in
Kanpur as part of the
University of Calcutta
-
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay published Kapalkundala, a
Bengali novel
- Nandshankar Tuljashankar Mehta published
Karan Ghelo in
Gujarati
- Edward John Waring published
Pharmacopoeia of India
-
Bajaur Scouts were created
-
Scinde Dawk stamps, the first adhesive stamps used in Asia, were discontinued in June
- British Raj acquired
Dalhousie Cantonment and
Bakloh for 5,000 rupees as a convalescent depot for European troops
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Douglas Hamilton published Report on the High Ranges of the Annamullay Mountains in Madras
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Commercial Bank of India of Bombay, founded in 1845, failed in the
Panic of 1866
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United Bank of India was established
-
Grand Chord and the
Howrah–Delhi main line were opened, connecting Delhi and Kolkata while the
Kalka Mail entered into service
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Sahibganj loop was opened, connecting
Khana Junction and
Kiul Junction
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Mughalsarai–Kanpur section was opened, connecting
Mughalsarai Junction and
Kanpur Central
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Nasik Road railway station was opened in
Nashik
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Manmad Junction railway station was opened in
Nashik
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Khandwa Junction railway station was opened
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Mathura–Vadodara section was opened
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Barharwa Junction railway station was opened
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Kanpur–Delhi section was opened, connecting Kanpur Central and Delhi
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Mokama–Barauni section, connecting
Mokama Junction and
Barauni in
Bihar
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Ghaziabad railway station opened
- Laksar Junction opened in
Laksar,
Uttarakhand
- A supplement, the Pioneer Mail, consisting of "48 quarto-size pages", mostly of advertisements, was added to
The Pioneer
[2]
-
HMS Malabar, designed to carry troops between the United Kingdom and British India, is launched on 8 December
- The meteorite Jamkheir
fell in
Maharashtra on 5 October
-
Madurai was constituted as a municipality.
[3]
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Coimbatore was constituted as a municipality.
[4]
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Machilipatnam Municipal Corporation was constituted as a
municipality
[5]
[6]
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Kumbakonam was constituted as a municipality
- Indian soldiers were first allowed promotions beyond
subedar
Law
Births
-
Gopal Krishna Gokhale, social and political leader in the
Indian independence movement, on 9 May in Kothluk,
Ratnagiri District,
Bombay Presidency
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Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI,
Nizam of Hyderabad, on 17 August 1866 in
Purani Haveli,
Hyderabad
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Sham Singh, Raja of
Chamba State from 1873 to 1904
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Raja of Panagal, zamindar of
Kalahasti, born on 9 July
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Khengarji III, Maharajah of
Cutch State, born on 23 August
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Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya, Indian mathematician who introduced the
four-vertex theorem and
Mukhopadhyaya's theorem in
plane geometry, born on 22 June
-
Hiralal Sen, photographer who is generally considered one of India's first filmmakers
Deaths
References