India (3)

1858-1950 British rule


1858-1945

YEAR DATE EVENT EMPEROR VICEROY
1858 29 march UK Colony Charles John Canning, Earl Canning
1862 21 march James Bruce, Earl of Elgin
1863 21 november Sir Robert Cornelis Napier
1863 2 december Sir William Thomas Denison
1864 12 january Sir John Laird Mair Lawrence
1869 12 january Richard Southwell Bourke, Earl of Mayo
1872 9 february Sir John Strachey
1872 24 february Francis Napier, Baron of Ettrick
1872 3 may Thomas George Baring, Viscount Baring of Lee
1876 12 april Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Baron Lytton
1877 1 january Empire empress Vittoria
1880 8 june George Frederick Samuel Robinson, Marquess of Ripon
1884 13 december Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood Earl of Dufferin
1888 10 december Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne
1894 11 october Victor Alexander Bruce, Earl of Elgin
1899 6 january George Nathaniel Curzon
1901 22 january emperor Edoardo VII
1905 18 november Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Earl of Minto
1910 6 may emperor Giorgio V
1910 23 november Charles Hardinge, Baron Hardinge of Penshurst
1916 4 april Frederic John Napier Thesiger, Baron Chelmsford
1921 2 april Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Baron Reading of Erleigh
1925 10 april Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Earl of Lytton
1926 3 april Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Baron Irwin
1929 29 june George Joachim Goschen, Viscount Goschen of Hawkhurst
1931 18 april George Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Earl of Willingdon
1936 20 january emperor Edoardo VIII
1936 18 april Victor Alexander John Hope, Marquess of Linlithgow
1936 12 december emperor Giorgio VI
1943 1 october Archibald Percival Wavell, Viscount Wavell

1945-1947

YEAR DATE EVENT PRESIDENT VICEROY
1945
1947 21 february Louis Francis Mountbatten, Viscount Mountbatten of Burma

1947-

YEAR DATE EVENT PRESIDENT PRIME MINISTER GENERAL GOVERNOR
1947 15 august Dominion Jawaharlal Nehru Louis Francis Mountbatten, Viscount Mountbatten of Burma
1948 21 january Chhakravarthi Rajagopalachari


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