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1857 CE - 1858 CE: The Sepoy Mutiny (aka The Uprising or First Indian War of Independence) against the East India Company.
1857 CE: The Sepoy Mangal Pandey is executed for attacking a British officer, and his fellow sepoys are flogged.
1857 CE: The East india Company sepoys at Meerut raise arms against their officers and then take over Delhi.
1857 CE: The East India Company retakes control of Delhi during the Sepoy Mutiny.
1858 CE: The East India Company takes back control of Kanpur and Lucknow during the Sepoy Mutiny.
1858 CE: Lord Canning, Governor-General of the East India Company announces that peace has been restored after the Sepoy Mutiny.
1858 CE: The British state takes full possession of East India Company territories in India.
1874 CE: The British Parliament formally dissolves the East India Company.