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Events in the year '''1866 in India'''.<br />
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==Incumbents==<br />
* Sir [[John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence|John Lawrence]], [[Governor-General of India]], 12 January 1864 – 12 January 1869<br />
* Colonel [[Edmund Haythorne]], [[Adjutant-General of India]], 22 June 1860–January 1866<br />
* [[Ram Singh II]], Maharao of [[Kota State]], 20 July 1828 – 27 March 1866<br />
* [[Sagramji II Devaji]] (Sagramji Bhanabhai), Thakur of [[Gondal State]], 1851-14 December 1869<br />
* [[Bham Pratap Singh]], Raja and Maharajah of [[Bijawar State]], 23 November 1847 – 15 September 1899<br />
* [[Shri Singh]], Raja of [[Chamba State]], 1844-1870<br />
* [[Ranmalsinhji Amarsinhji]], Raj Sahib of [[Dhrangadhra State]], 9 April 1843 – 16 October 1869<br />
* [[Madan Pal]], Maharaja of [[Karauli State]], 4 March 1854 – 16 August 1869<br />
* [[Hiravajra Singh Deo]], Maharajah of [[Patna (princely state)|Patna]], 1848-August 1866<br />
* [[Cecil Beadon]], Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, 1862-1866<br />
* [[Afzal ad-Dawlah, Asaf Jah V]], [[Nizam of Hyderabad]], 16 May 1857 – 26 February 1869<br />
* [[Charles Pelly (civil servant)|Charles Pelly]], revenue member of the [[Madras Legislative Council]], 1862-1866<br />
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==Events==<br />
* British India [[Bhutan War|defeated]] Bhutan, annexing parts of the Assam Duars, Bengal Duars, and Dewangiri ([[Western Duars]]<br />
* The British government [[List of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, 1860–79|passed]] the Government of India Act 1865, India Office Site and Approaches Act 1865, and the Indian High Courts Act 1865<br />
* [[Indian Forest Acts, 1865 and 1878]] extended the [[British colonial India|British Colonial]] claims over [[fores]]ts in India.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Performance of Nationalism: India, Pakistan, and the Memory of Partition|page=161|first=Jisha |last=Menon |location=New York |publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2013 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LP6VM20OtNEC&q=indian+forest+act+of+1865+JISHA+MENON&pg=PA161|isbn=9781107000100}}</ref><br />
* [[Shapoorji Pallonji Group]], Mumbai based business conglomerate, was founded<br />
* [[Shergotty meteorite]] fell at [[Sherghati]], [[Gaya district|Gaya]], [[Bihar, India]]<br />
* [[P&O Bank]] purchased [[Allahabad Bank]]<br />
* [[Bombay Castle]] wall was demolished<br />
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==Births==<br />
* [[Charles Astley Fowler]], Divisional Commander during the [[Third Afghan War]] in 1919, born on 9 November<br />
* [[William Birdwood]], Commander-in-Chief of the [[Fifth Army (United Kingdom)|Fifth Army]] on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] in [[World War I]], born on 13 September in [[Khadki]]<br />
* [[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<br />
* [[Edward Allan Wood]], Commandant of the [[Auxiliary Division]] during the [[Irish War of Independence]], born on 6 May<br />
* [[Lala Lajpat Rai]], leader in the [[Indian Independence movement]], born on 28 January in [[Dhudike]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]]<br />
* [[John Speechly|Bessie Sinclair Speechly]], a Speechly, born on 31 August in Cottayam, India<br />
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==Deaths==<br />
* [[Alexander Kinloch Forbes]], scholar of the [[Gujarati language]] and a colonial administrator in British India, died in [[Pune]]<br />
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