my timeline

By Tanayri
  • 1498

    vasco da gama

    reached the port of Calicut on the southwestern coast of India.

  • queen anne 1

    granted a royal charter to some London merchants to have sole ownership of trade with the East Indies.

  • British east india

    Company established its first factory post in Masulipatnam on the Andhra Coast of the Bay of Bengal.

  • The EIC

    a mission to expand faster and more efficiently, which led to the company receiving freedom to act as a free entity

  • The EIC

    wage war on the states in the Indian region including Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab (governor) of Bengal during the Battle of Plassey

  • The EIC

    9 years later, the EIC fought the Mughal emperor and the Nawab of Oudh to gain control of Bihar and Oudh.

  • The Sepoy mutiny

    led to the direct control of the territories previously captured by the EIC by the British crow

  • Government of india

    Act transferred full governing authority from the EIC to the British government

  • Queen victoria

    18 years later in Queen Victoria of the British Empire was named empress of India.

  • British rulers

    Over the next 71 years, the British rulers were being challenged left and right by their ruled peoples. One such challenge was the Salt March which was a nonviolent show of civil disobedience led by Gandhi.