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1280
The Influence of Marco Polo
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May 29, 1453
The Fall of Constantinople
The Fall of Constantinople signified the defeat of the Byzantine Empire. -
1498
Vasco de Gama
Vasco De Gama arrived in India and learned of India’s wealth and brought that knowledge to the rest of Europe. The effects of Da Gama's voyage to India include the development of the spice trade and the Portuguese colonization of Mozambique. -
Formation of the East India Company
Won rights to build trading posts and forts at Madras, Bombay, & Calcutta. Traded gold and silver for cotton, silk & tea (Indian goods).
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The decline of the Mughal Empire
Mughal emperors still ruled over a wealthy court but they no longer possessed control the majority of India. Due to the lack of dominant power in the subcontinent, French and British began competing for economic/political power. Finally, in 1760 the British overcome the French -
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OUTSIDE INDIA: 7 Years War
It involved every European great power of the time and spanned five continents, affecting Europe, the Americas, West Africa, India, and the Philippines. War was fought on a global scale. -
The Battle of Plassey
The Battle of Plassey was fought between the forces of the Nawab of Bengal Siraj-ud-Daulah and the English East India Company, led by Robert Clive. It was fought on 23 June 1757 at Plassey near Murshidabad. ... This was a major blow to the Nawab's army which was, as a result, easily defeated by the British. -
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Industrial revolution
The revolution of industry, started in Europe which caused the need for raw materials. -
The Indian Civil Service
The British East India company began to see that they need more people in order to effectively control India and protect their assets so they began to hire and train Indians into low ranking jobs to help the Company govern. -
Regulations Act
Act by the British Parliament regulating the British East India Company by installing a governor general in the British East India company, this was the first occurrence of the British government regulating the company. -
The first governor general
Warren Hastings was the first Person to be appointed as the Governor General of the British East India Company due to the British government's desire to hold more control over the company. -
Pitt’s India Act
Was an act by the British parliament that was made to address the shortcomings of the regulations act of 1773 that brought the East India Company's rule over India under British control. -
English Becomes the official language of higher learning
Higher education by the British of the Indians was determined to be taught only in English making it a necessity in order to learn because the Anglesites won over the Orientalists in the debate for how the Indians should be taught. -
Sepoy Rebellion
The Sepoys, or Indian soldiers in the British army, were angered when they learned their cartridges of their rifles were greased by pork and or beef fat and then later a law was created that forced Indians to fight in British wars in foreign lands which angered the Sepoys more. The rebellion was then started in Delhi but was eventually stopped by the British. -
The first three universities were made in India
From these universities came an elite class of western-educated Indians. -
Indian Rebellion of 1857
Parallel to the Opium Wars, the Company saw an increasing amount of rebellion and insurgency from its Indian territories. The rebels, many of whom were the Indian troops within the Company’s army caught their employers off guard and succeeded in killing many British soldiers, civilians, & Indians loyal to the Company. In response to the uprising, the Company killed thousands of Indians, both rebel combatants as well as a large number of civilians perceived to be sympathetic to the uprising. -
Becoming a British Colony
After the rebellion, the British wanted to tighten their grip on India by ending the British east india company’s rule over India and officially made it a British colony under the control of the British government. -
OUTSIDE INDIA: Franco-Prussian War
The war between Prussia and France in which Prussia had industrialized their military and badly beat the French. -
Queen Victoria of Britain took the title of Empress of India
Queen Victoria of England takes the title of Empress of India. -
The Formation of the Indian National Congress
Indians started to form nationalist groups, one of which was the Indian National Congress (INC), which pushed for a gradual change of British rule and more government jobs for Indians. -
Formation of the Muslim League
Muslims became concerned over Hindu nationalism and by the 1930s their leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah thought that India would have to be split into a Muslim country and a Hindu country. -
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World War I
WWI was taking place -
The Amritsar Massacre
General Reginald Dyer banned mass public gathering. His orders continued to be defied and on April 13, 1919, 10,000 Indians gathered in Amritsar and Dyer ordered his troops to open fire killing 379 and wounding 1,100. -
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Outside Event: Irish War for Independence
The Irish begin their war for independence against the British claiming freedom for 26 of the 32 Irish Counties on the Isle. -
Campaign of Civil Disobedience
Gandhi started his campaign of civil disobedience, which called for all Indians to unite and peacefully resist the British Government and the unjust laws they forced upon the Indians.
Gandhi would spin his own clothes to prevent from supporting the British Textile industry. -
The Salt March
Gandhi leads a procession of Indians to illegally make salt in protest of the laws passed by the British that prevented the creation and sale of salt by Indians. Civil disobedience. -
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World War II
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India Independence and Partition
The British Government realized that they could no longer maintain control over India and they passed the Indian Independence act which gave India its freedom but also partitioned the two Northern corners of India into Pakistan for the Muslim minority to have their own country. -
Violence Due to the Partition
Due to the Partition Muslims in India move to Pakistan and Hindus in Pakistan move into India and violence occurs between these two groups as they come across each other.
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Gandhi is assassinated
killed by a Hindu finatic who believed that Gandhi was responsible for the Partition and the violence between Muslims and Hindus. It was the sixth attempt on his life. -
Nehru's non-alignment policy
In a speech in 1954 Nehru told the Indian people of his policy of non-alignment between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
Indira Gandhi is assassinated
Indira Gandhi, the daughter of Nehru, is killed by Sikhs who wanted their own independent state of Punjab
