1841 in India

Events in the year 1841 in India.

1841
in
India

Centuries:
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1820s
  • 1830s
  • 1840s
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
See also:List of years in India
Timeline of Indian history

Incumbents

  • The Earl of Auckland, Governor-General, 1836–42.[1]
  • Nicol Alexander Dalzell, assistant commissioner of customs in Bombay

Events

  • Sino-Sikh War, May 1841 to August 1842, General Zorawar Singh Kahluria of the Sikh Empire invaded Qing Tibet
  • First Anglo-Afghan War, 1837-1842[2]
  • Missionaries from the Presbyterian Church of Wales found the Presbyterian Church in India in the Khasi Hills in northeast India[3]
  • Johann Christian Freidrich Heyer, Lutheran minister in America, becomes the first Lutheran Missionary from America to visit India
  • 52nd Regiment of Foot comes to India from Australia
  • Loreto Sisters come to India and build schools
  • British India Society begins publishing British Indian Advocate

Law

  • Succession (Property Protection) Act

Births

  • Frederick William Spring, British Army officer and military historian
  • Nawab Waqar-ul-Mulk Kamboh, one of the founders of the All India Muslim League

Deaths

  • Zorawar Singh Kahluria, the "Napoleon of India," who invaded Tibet in the Sino-Sikh War
  • Ranchhodji Diwan, chief minister of Junagadh state
  • Prithvi Singh Deo, raja of Sonepur State
  • Nahar Singh, raja of Sailana State

References

  1. William Freke Williams and William Cooke Stafford (1863). England's Battles by Sea and Land: History of England's campaigns in India and China; and of the Indian mutiny, 1857-1859. Printing and publishing company. p. 301.
  2. Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 261
  3. Erwin Fahlbusch and Geoffrey William Bromiley, The Encyclopedia of Christianity, Volume 4, Eerdmans, 2005, ISBN 0-8028-2416-1, p. 538.


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