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1600 - 1874The East India Company is active in South Asia and China.
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1612 - 1619Sir Thomas Roe secures permission from the Mughal Empire for the first factory of the East India Company at Surat.
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1639 - 1640The East India Company establishes a trade centre at Masulipatam (Machilipatnam) and Madras.
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1658The East India Company establishes a trade centre at Hughli.
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1661The East India Company begins its control of Bombay (Mumbai).
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1690The East India Company establishes a trade centre at Calcutta (Kolkata).
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1698A rival English East India Company is formed.
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1709The two rival English East India Companies merge.
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Dec 1742Robert Clive joins the East India Company as a 'writer'.
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1750Warren Hastings joins the East India Company as a clerk or ‘writer’.
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Aug 1751 - Sep 1751Robert Clive leads the defence of Arcot for the East India Company.
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Dec 1751Robert Clive wins a battle at Arni against forces of Chandra Sahib, the nizam of Hyderabad.
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Feb 1752Robert Clive wins the battle at Kaveripak for the East India Company.
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Jun 1752Robert Clive commands the artillery of the East India Company and helps capture Trichinopoly.
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1755Robert Clive returns to India as a lieutenant colonel in the East India Company.
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Feb 1756Robert Clive captures the Gheria fortress for the East India Company.
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20 Jun 1756A number of East India Company soldiers and employees do not survive internment in the Black Hole of Calcutta prison cell.
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1757The East India Company begins to control its own territory in India.
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1757The East India Company forms the 1st Bengal Native Infantry, the first sepoy battalion.
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Jan 1757Robert Clive recaptures Calcutta for the East India Company.
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Mar 1757Robert Clive captures French-held Chandernagore for the East India Company.
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23 Jun 1757Robert Clive of the East India Company wins the Battle of Plessey against forces of the nawab of Bengal.
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1758 - 1761Warren Hastings serves as the East India Company's representative at the court of the Nawab of Bengal.
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Feb 1758Robert Clive is made Governor of Bengal by the East India Company.
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1759The East India Compnay takes full control of Surat.
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1761Warren Hastings is appointed to the East India Company's Council of Bengal.
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1764Robert Clive is appointed Governor of Bengal for a second time by the East India Company.
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1765Robert Clive initiates reforms in the East india Company reducing corruption and salaries.
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12 Aug 1765The Mughal emperor Shah Alam II awards the East India company the right to collect land revenue (dewani) in Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa.
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1767 - 1769First Anglo-Mysore War.
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1767 - 1799The four Anglo-Mysore Wars see the East India Company expand its territories in India.
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Aug 1767Haidar Ali, ruler of the kingdom of Mysore, declares war on the East India Company.
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Sep 1767The East India Company defeats Mysore and the Nizam of Hyderabad at the battle of Trinamalai.
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1772Warren Hastings is appointed the East India Company Governor of Bengal.
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1773The Regulating Act is passed by the British Parliament and increases government control of the East India Company.
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1773The British Parliament investigates the financial afffairs of Robert Clive but finds no wrong-doing.
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1774The India Act is passed by the British Parliament and further increases government control of the East India Company.
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1774 - 1785Warren Hastings serves as the first Governor-General of the East India Company.
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1775 - 1819The Anglo-Maratha Wars between the East India Company and the Maratha Confederacy.
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1780 - 1784Second Anglo-Mysore War.
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Sep 1780The Kingdom of Mysore defeats the East India Company at the battle of Pollilur.
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Jul 1781The East India Company defeats the Kingdom of Mysore at the battle of Porto Novo (Parangipettai).
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1785Reforms in the army of the East India Company dictate that only Britishers may become officers.
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1787Warren Hastings is impeached by Parliament on charges of corruption. He is ultimately acquitted.
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1790 - 1792Third Anglo-Mysore War.
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Jan 1792The Treaty of Seringapatam ends the Third Anglo-Mysore War and obliges Mysore to give up half its territory to the East India Company.
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1793The Bengal Permanent Settlement makes tax collectors (zamindars) also landowners in East India Company territory.
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1798Hyderabad becomes the first of many Indian princely states to become a protectorate of the East India Company.
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1799Fourth Anglo-Mysore War.
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7 Apr 1799An East India Company army begins a one-month siege of Seringapatam, capital of the Kingdom of Mysore.
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3 May 1799The East India Company wins the Anglo-Mysore Wars by capturing Seringapatam. Tipu Sultan of Mysore is killed and the kingdom becomes a British protectorate.
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Jul 1806East India Company sepoys mutiny in Vellore, southern India against their British officers.
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1813The East India Company lifts its ban on missionaries in its territories.
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1813The Charter Act proclaims British sovereignty over new territory captured by the East India Company and ends its trade monopoly in India.
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1814 - 1816The Anglo-Nepalese War between Nepal and the East India Company.
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Apr 1814The East India Company declares war on Nepal.
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Apr 1814A small East India Company force in northern India is wiped out by Nepalese raiders.
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1816The Treaty of Sugauli ends the Anglo-Nepalese War and makes Nepal a British protectorate.
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1819The East India Company establishes a trade centre at Singapore.
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1825The global crash necessitates the East India Company taking massive loans from the British government.
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1826Singapore, Malacca, and Penang on the Malay Peninsula are collectively administered as the Straits Settlements by the East India Company.
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1828Lord William Bentinck is made Governor-General of the East India Company.
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1829The East India Company abolishes the practice of sati in its territories.
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1831The East India Company takes over the Kingdom of Mysore.
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1833The Charter Act reduces the independent powers of the East India Company and removes its trade monopoly with China..
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1838 - 1842The First Anglo-Afghan War between the Emirate of Afghanistan and the British East India Company.
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1839The First Opium War between Britain and China caused by the East India Company's persistent smuggling of opium into China.
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1845 - 1846The First Anglo-Sikh War.
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1845 - 1849The two Anglo-Sikh Wars further increase the territories of the East India Company.
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13 Dec 1845The East India Company declares war on the Sikh Empire.
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21 Dec 1845 - 22 Dec 1845The East India Company wins a marginal victory at the Battle of Ferozeshah against the Sikh Empire durng the First Anglo-Sikh War.
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28 Jan 1846The Battle of Aliwal during the First Anglo-Sikh War. The East India Company wins against the Sikh Empire.
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10 Feb 1846The Battle of Sobraon during the First Anglo-Sikh War. The East India Company wins against the Sikh Empire.
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9 Mar 1846The Treaty of Lahore ends the First Anglo-Sikh War in favour of the East India Company.
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1848 - 1849The Second Anglo-Sikh War.
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1848The Marquess of Dalhousie is made the Governor-General of the East India Company.
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1849Following victory in the Anglo-Sikh Wars and as part of the ensuing peace treaty, the East India Company acquires the Koh-i-Noor diamond.
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13 Jan 1849The Battle of Chillianwala during the Second Anglo-Sikh War.
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22 Jan 1849The British capture Multan after a lengthy siege during the Second Anglo-Sikh War.
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21 Feb 1849The British East India Company defeats the Sikh Empire at the Battle of Gujrat and so wins the Second Anglo-Sikh War.
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1853The Charter Act further reduces the independence of the East India Company.
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1853The East India Company introduces the first railway and telegraph lines in India.
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1857 - 1858The Sepoy Mutiny (aka The Uprising or First Indian War of Independence) against the East India Company.
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2 Aug 1858The British state takes full possession of East India Company territories in India.
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1 Jun 1874The British Parliament formally dissolves the East India Company.