To navigate the timeline, click and drag it with your mouse, or click on the timeline overview on the bottom.
1600 CE
1610 CE
1620 CE
1630 CE
1640 CE
1650 CE
1660 CE
1670 CE
1680 CE
1690 CE
1700 CE
1710 CE
1720 CE
1730 CE
1740 CE
1750 CE
1760 CE
1770 CE
1780 CE
1790 CE
1800 CE
1810 CE
1820 CE
1830 CE
1840 CE
1850 CE
1860 CE
1870 CE
1600 CE - 1874 CE: The East India Company is active in South Asia and China.
1612 CE - 1619 CE: Sir Thomas Roe secures permission from the Mughal Empire for the first factory of the East India Company at Surat.
1639 CE - 1640 CE: The East India Company establishes a trade centre at Masulipatam (Machilipatnam) and Madras.
1658 CE: The East India Company establishes a trade centre at Hughli.
1661 CE: The East India Company begins its control of Bombay (Mumbai).
1690 CE: The East India Company establishes a trade centre at Calcutta (Kolkata).
1698 CE: A rival English East India Company is formed.
1709 CE: The two rival English East India Companies merge.
1742 CE: Robert Clive joins the East India Company as a 'writer'.
1750 CE: Warren Hastings joins the East India Company as a clerk or ‘writer’.
1751 CE: Robert Clive leads the defence of Arcot for the East India Company.
1751 CE: Robert Clive wins a battle at Arni against forces of Chandra Sahib, the nizam of Hyderabad.
1752 CE: Robert Clive wins the battle at Kaveripak for the East India Company.
1752 CE: Robert Clive commands the artillery of the East India Company and helps capture Trichinopoly.
1755 CE: Robert Clive returns to India as a lieutenant colonel in the East India Company.
1756 CE: Robert Clive captures the Gheria fortress for the East India Company.
1756 CE: A number of East India Company soldiers and employees do not survive internment in the Black Hole of Calcutta prison cell.
1757 CE: The East India Company begins to control its own territory in India.
1757 CE: The East India Company forms the 1st Bengal Native Infantry, the first sepoy battalion.
1757 CE: Robert Clive recaptures Calcutta for the East India Company.
1757 CE: Robert Clive captures French-held Chandernagore for the East India Company.
1757 CE: Robert Clive of the East India Company wins the Battle of Plessey against forces of the nawab of Bengal.
1758 CE - 1761 CE: Warren Hastings serves as the East India Company's representative at the court of the Nawab of Bengal.
1758 CE: Robert Clive is made Governor of Bengal by the East India Company.
1759 CE: The East India Compnay takes full control of Surat.
1761 CE: Warren Hastings is appointed to the East India Company's Council of Bengal.
1764 CE: Robert Clive is appointed Governor of Bengal for a second time by the East India Company.
1765 CE: Robert Clive initiates reforms in the East india Company reducing corruption and salaries.
1765 CE: The Mughal emperor Shah Alam II awards the East India company the right to collect land revenue (dewani) in Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa.
1767 CE - 1769 CE: First Anglo-Mysore War.
1767 CE - 1799 CE: The four Anglo-Mysore Wars see the East India Company expand its territories in India.
1767 CE: Haidar Ali, ruler of the kingdom of Mysore, declares war on the East India Company.
1767 CE: The East India Company defeats Mysore and the Nizam of Hyderabad at the battle of Trinamalai.
1772 CE: Warren Hastings is appointed the East India Company Governor of Bengal.
1773 CE: The Regulating Act is passed by the British Parliament and increases government control of the East India Company.
1773 CE: The British Parliament investigates the financial afffairs of Robert Clive but finds no wrong-doing.
1774 CE: The India Act is passed by the British Parliament and further increases government control of the East India Company.
1774 CE - 1785 CE: Warren Hastings serves as the first Governor-General of the East India Company.
1775 CE - 1819 CE: The Anglo-Maratha Wars between the East India Company and the Maratha Confederacy.
1780 CE - 1784 CE: Second Anglo-Mysore War.
1780 CE: The Kingdom of Mysore defeats the East India Company at the battle of Pollilur.
1781 CE: The East India Company defeats the Kingdom of Mysore at the battle of Porto Novo (Parangipettai).
1785 CE: Reforms in the army of the East India Company dictate that only Britishers may become officers.
1787 CE: Warren Hastings is impeached by Parliament on charges of corruption. He is ultimately acquitted.
1790 CE - 1792 CE: Third Anglo-Mysore War.
1792 CE: The Treaty of Seringapatam ends the Third Anglo-Mysore War and obliges Mysore to give up half its territory to the East India Company.
1793 CE: The Bengal Permanent Settlement makes tax collectors (zamindars) also landowners in East India Company territory.
1798 CE: Hyderabad becomes the first of many Indian princely states to become a protectorate of the East India Company.
1799 CE: Fourth Anglo-Mysore War.
1799 CE: An East India Company army begins a one-month siege of Seringapatam, capital of the Kingdom of Mysore.
1799 CE: The East India Company wins the Anglo-Mysore Wars by capturing Seringapatam. Tipu Sultan of Mysore is killed and the kingdom becomes a British protectorate.
1806 CE: East India Company sepoys mutiny in Vellore, southern India against their British officers.
1813 CE: The East India Company lifts its ban on missionaries in its territories.
1813 CE: The Charter Act proclaims British sovereignty over new territory captured by the East India Company and ends its trade monopoly in India.
1814 CE - 1816 CE: The Anglo-Nepalese War between Nepal and the East India Company.
1814 CE: The East India Company declares war on Nepal.
1814 CE: A small East India Company force in northern India is wiped out by Nepalese raiders.
1816 CE: The Treaty of Sugauli ends the Anglo-Nepalese War and makes Nepal a British protectorate.
1819 CE: The East India Company establishes a trade centre at Singapore.
1825 CE: The global crash necessitates the East India Company taking massive loans from the British government.
1826 CE: Singapore, Malacca, and Penang on the Malay Peninsula are collectively administered as the Straits Settlements by the East India Company.
1828 CE: Lord William Bentinck is made Governor-General of the East India Company.
1829 CE: The East India Company abolishes the practice of sati in its territories.
1831 CE: The East India Company takes over the Kingdom of Mysore.
1833 CE: The Charter Act reduces the independent powers of the East India Company and removes its trade monopoly with China..
1838 CE - 1842 CE: The First Anglo-Afghan War between the Emirate of Afghanistan and the British East India Company.
1839 CE: The First Opium War between Britain and China caused by the East India Company's persistent smuggling of opium into China.
1845 CE - 1846 CE: The First Anglo-Sikh War.
1845 CE - 1849 CE: The two Anglo-Sikh Wars further increase the territories of the East India Company.
1845 CE: The East India Company declares war on the Sikh Empire.
1845 CE: The East India Company wins a marginal victory at the Battle of Ferozeshah against the Sikh Empire durng the First Anglo-Sikh War.
1846 CE: The Battle of Aliwal during the First Anglo-Sikh War. The East India Company wins against the Sikh Empire.
1846 CE: The Battle of Sobraon during the First Anglo-Sikh War. The East India Company wins against the Sikh Empire.
1846 CE: The Treaty of Lahore ends the First Anglo-Sikh War in favour of the East India Company.
1848 CE - 1849 CE: The Second Anglo-Sikh War.
1848 CE: The Marquess of Dalhousie is made the Governor-General of the East India Company.
1849 CE: Following victory in the Anglo-Sikh Wars and as part of the ensuing peace treaty, the East India Company acquires the Koh-i-Noor diamond.
1849 CE: The Battle of Chillianwala during the Second Anglo-Sikh War.
1849 CE: The British capture Multan after a lengthy siege during the Second Anglo-Sikh War.
1849 CE: The British East India Company defeats the Sikh Empire at the Battle of Gujrat and so wins the Second Anglo-Sikh War.
1853 CE: The Charter Act further reduces the independence of the East India Company.
1853 CE: The East India Company introduces the first railway and telegraph lines in India.
1857 CE - 1858 CE: The Sepoy Mutiny (aka The Uprising or First Indian War of Independence) against the East India Company.
1858 CE: The British state takes full possession of East India Company territories in India.
1874 CE: The British Parliament formally dissolves the East India Company.