eic timeline

By hailyjl
  • 1498

    Vasco da gama

    1498 when Vasco da gama of Portugal reached the port of Calicut on the southwestern coast of India

  • sole ownership of trade with east

    On the very last day of 1600, Queen Anne 1 granted a royal charter to some London merchants to have sole ownership of trade with the East Indies

  • first factory post

    Around the year 1611, the British East India Company established its first factory post in Masulipatnam on the Andhra Coast of the Bay of Bengal

  • freedom act

    The EIC was on a mission to expand faster and more efficiently, which led to the company receiving freedom to act as a free entity in 1670

  • decline of the region

    The decline of the region started about 150 years before their peak in 1750

  • 25% of the worlds production

    At its peak before 1750, the area we call India today made up 25% of the world’s industrial production

  • battle of plassey

    It also allowed the EIC to wage war on the states in the Indian region including Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab (governor) of Bengal during the Battle of Plassey in 1757.

  • war to gain control

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

  • control of territories

    The Sepoy mutiny of 1857 led to the direct control of the territories previously captured by the EIC by the British crown

  • transferred full governing to British

    In 1858, the Government of India Act transferred full governing authority from the EIC to the British government

  • british empire named expres of india

    18 years later in 1876, Queen Victoria of the British Empire was named empress of India.

  • civil disobedience led by Gandhi

    One such challenge was the Salt March in 1930 which was a nonviolent show of civil disobedience led by Gandhi.