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Dutch established a trading post at Batavia in Java.
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Sultan of Mataram's attacks on Batavia fail.
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First Dutch settlement in South Africa at Cape Town
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In 1661 a British Port-Trading center founded at Bombay.
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Calcutta was established in 1690 at the center of British activities in Bengal.
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Death of Mughal Emperor, Auranzeb starts the beginning of the break down of imperilism.
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Nadir Shah invaded India from Persia in 1739.
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War of Austrian Succession led to Global British-French struggle for colonial dominance.
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Civil war and division of Mataram and the Dutch became to dominate power on Java
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The seven year's war lasted for seven years from 1756 to 1763 between the British and the French for global warfare.
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The battle of plassey left the bristish dominate power in Bengal.
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1769 to 1770 was the time of the great famine in Bengal.
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War for independence by American Colonists which led to another French-Bristish struggle for global warfare.
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During these rour years 1786 to1790 Cornwallis led political reforms in India.
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Wars of the Revolution as well as the Napoleonic Era were happening during the timespan of 1790 to 1815.
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Napoleon invades Egypt beginning his invasions in 1798
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The British annex Cape Town and surrounding areas in 1815.
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1830 was the start if the Boers' Great Trek in South Africa.
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Decision to give support for English Education in India. English adopted as the language of Indian law courts.