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1526 - 1857Sepoys are recruited by the Mughal Empire.
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1757The East India Company forms the 1st Bengal Native Infantry, the first sepoy battalion.
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Jul 1806East India Company sepoys mutiny in Vellore, southern India against their British officers.
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1857 - 1858The Sepoy Mutiny (aka The Uprising or First Indian War of Independence) against the East India Company.
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1895The old East India Company sepoy units are universally absorbed into the British Indian Army. Indians are now theoretically elgibile to become officers.
