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An Act of Parliament took away the East India Company's territories and their soldiers and gave them to the Crown. A council was established with a principal Secretary of State and this took over full government. The title of Viceroy of India was used for the first time.

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CHARLES, LORD CANNING (1812-1862)

• First Viceroy of India and third son of George Canning
• Went to India with the East India Company
• Made Governor-General of India in 1856 and from 1858 First Viceroy after defeating the Indian Mutiny in 1857 - during which he was wrongly called Clemency Canning
• Reorganized India's administrative, legal and financial systems
• Created an Earl in 1859

One of the things that sparked off the Indian Mutiny was the introduction of the new Enfield paper cartridge. The end of the cartridge had to be bitten off prior to its loading. The cartridges were allegedly greased with animal fat and hence were regarded by Muslims and Hindus as unclean.

BRITISH TERRITORIES IN INDIA

• Punjab • Sirhind • Kumaon • Rohilkhand • Oudh • Nepal • Bihar • Benal • Sikkim • Assam • Mysore

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1837	William IV dies Victoria becomes Queen
1838	The People's Charter is issued
1839	The Opium War breaks out
1840	Victoria marries Prince Albert
1841	Peel becomes Prime Minister
1842	The Opium War ends
1845	The Irish famine starts
1846	The corn laws are repealed Russell becomes Prime Minister
1848	Public Health Act
1851	The Great Exhibition Louis Napoleon seizes power in France
1854	The Crimean War breaks out Florence Nightingale arrives at Scutari
1855	Palmerston becomes Prime Minister
1856	The Treaty of Paris ends the Crimean War
1857	The Indian Mutiny breaks out
1858	The Indian Mutiny ends Canning becomes 1st Viceroy
1860	Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the United States