1858 in India

• Charles Canning, Governor-General, afterwards Viceroy

• January – General Sir Hugh Rose begins the Central India campaign; Sir Colin Campbell begins the campaign to recapture Lucknow; trial of Bahadur Shah, King of Delhi, from 27 JanuaryEdwardes (1975), p. 141
• February – General Rose relieves Saugor; Campbell's Army of Oudh assembles on the Kanpur-Lucknow road to await Jang Bahadur's Gurkha army
• March – Lucknow is recaptured on 21 March; Central India campaign continues
• April – Battle of the Betwa; the city of Jhansi is stormed and captured (3–6 April); Azamgarh recaptured; advance on Kalpi (25 April); Campbell begins reconquest of Rohilkhand; Koer Singh leads a rising in Bihar; after his defeat he dies of his wounds
• May – Battle of Bareilly followed by its recapture; Battle of Kunch; recapture of Jagdispur; reoccupation of Kalpi; Battle of Mohamdi (24 May) and end of resistance in Rohilkhand; rebels begin guerrilla war in the jungle; Tatya Tope and the Rani of Jhansi outside Gwalior
• June – Gwalior army deserts to the rebels and Tatya Tope and the Rani of Jhansi seize Gwalior; General Rose marches from the Kalpi to Gwalior arriving on the 16th; next day the battle of Kotah-i-Serai and on the 19th the Battle of Gwalior; Gwalior fortress recaptured; during June guerrilla forces in Oudh, Bihar and along the Nepalese frontier are suppressed
• July to December – suppression of guerrilla forces except in Rajputana and Central India
• October to November – Bahadur Shah travels from Delhi into exile at RangoonEdwardes (1975), p. 143
• 1 November – the end of the British East India Company's rule in India is proclaimedEdwardes (1975), p. 145

• Achipudava Samaram led by Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker in Alleppey, Travancore.{{Cite news |date=2016-04-07 |title=On the historical Achippudava Samaram and Mookkuthi Samaram |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/Sartorial-assertions-for-change/article14224494.ece |access-date=2024-07-04 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}

• August - Government of India Act 1878

• 20 July - Baba Sawan Singh, Second Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (died 2 April 1948).
• 9 July – Kaikhusrau Jahan, Begum of Bhopal (died 12 May 1930)
• 7 November – Bipin Chandra Pal (died 1932)
• 30 November – Jagadish Chandra Bose, physicist, biologist, botanist, archaeologist and science fiction writer (died 1937).

• Rani of Jhansi Lakshmibai, Queen of Jhansi State (d. 18 June at Gwalior, now Madhya Pradesh)
• Nawab Majju Khan, Indian freedom fighter.

• Timeline of the Indian Rebellion of 1857

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• Edwardes, Michael (1975) Red Year. London: Sphere Books; pp. 154–55 (events of the rebellion)

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