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  • 1498

    Sea trade routes established

    From Europe to Asia.

  • Queen Anne I grants royal charter

    Gave London merchants to have sole ownership of trade with the East Indies.

  • British East India Company establishes first factory post.

    Settled on Masulipatnam on the Andhra Coast of the Bay of Bengal.

  • EIC granted ability to act as a free entity.

    They wanted to expand faster and more efficiently to keep up with competing merchants.

  • Battle of Plassey

    A war between the EIC and Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal.

  • EIC fights the Mughal emperor and the Nawab of Oudh for control of Bihar and Oudh.

  • Sepoy Mutiny

    Caused because of materials being shipped in were made of pig fat, which was against their newly acquired soldiers' religion.

  • Control transferred from EIC to the British government.

  • British Raj formed

  • Queen Victoria of the British Empire was named empress of India.

  • Salt March

    A group of nonviolent civil protests by Gandhi, protesting the new British monopoly on salt.

  • Indian Independence