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1526 CE - 1857 CE: Sepoys are recruited by the Mughal Empire.
1757 CE: The East India Company forms the 1st Bengal Native Infantry, the first sepoy battalion.
1806 CE: East India Company sepoys mutiny in Vellore, southern India against their British officers.
1857 CE - 1858 CE: The Sepoy Mutiny (aka The Uprising or First Indian War of Independence) against the East India Company.
1895 CE: The old East India Company sepoy units are universally absorbed into the British Indian Army. Indians are now theoretically elgibile to become officers.