← 1865 1864 1863 1866 in India → 1867 1868 1869
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See also:	List of years in India Timeline of Indian history

Events in the year 1866 in India .

Incumbents [ edit ]

• 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
• Ram Singh II , Maharao of Kota State , 20 July 1828 ? 27 March 1866
• Sagramji II Devaji (Sagramji Bhanabhai), Thakur of Gondal State , 1851-14 December 1869
• Bham Pratap Singh , Raja and Maharajah of Bijawar State , 23 November 1847 ? 15 September 1899
• Shri Singh , Raja of Chamba State , 1844-1870
• Ranmalsinhji Amarsinhji , Raj Sahib of Dhrangadhra State , 9 April 1843 ? 16 October 1869
• Madan Pal , Maharaja of Karauli State , 4 March 1854 ? 16 August 1869
• Hiravajra Singh Deo , Maharajah of Patna , 1848-August 1866
• Cecil Beadon , Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, 1862-1866
• Afzal ad-Dawlah, Asaf Jah V , Nizam of Hyderabad , 16 May 1857 ? 26 February 1869
• Charles Pelly , revenue member of the Madras Legislative Council , 1862-1866

Events [ edit ]

• British India defeated Bhutan, annexing parts of the Assam Duars, Bengal Duars, and Dewangiri ( Western Duars
• Shapoorji Pallonji Group , Mumbai based business conglomerate, was founded
• Shergotty meteorite fell at Sherghati , Gaya , Bihar, India
• P&O Bank purchased Allahabad Bank
• Bombay Castle wall was demolished

Law [ edit ]

• Indian Succession Act
• Government Of India Act
• India Office Site & Approaches Act
• Indian High Courts Act
• Indian Forest Acts, 1865 and 1878 extended the British Colonial claims over forests in India. ^[1]

Births [ edit ]

• Charles Astley Fowler , Divisional Commander during the Third Afghan War in 1919, born on 9 November
• William Birdwood , Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army on the Western Front in World War I , born on 13 September in Khadki
• Lucy Deane Streatfeild , civil servant, a social worker, and one of the first female factory inspectors in the United Kingdom; she was one of the first to raise concerns about the health risks arising from exposure to asbestos , born on 31 July in Madras
• Edward Allan Wood , Commandant of the Auxiliary Division during the Irish War of Independence , born on 6 May
• Lala Lajpat Rai , leader in the Indian Independence movement , born on 28 January in Dhudike , Punjab
• Bessie Sinclair Speechly , a Speechly, born on 31 August in Cottayam, India

Deaths [ edit ]

• Alexander Kinloch Forbes , scholar of the Gujarati language and a colonial administrator in British India, died in Pune

References [ edit ]