19th Century
| Year | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 1857 | Indian Rebellion of 1857 also known as the Sepoy Mutiny breaks out. | |
| 1858 | East India Company is dissolved and the British Raj begins. |
Read more about this topic: Timeline Of Bangladeshi History
Famous quotes containing the word century:
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)