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Events in the year 1841 in India.

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

Deaths

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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