Indian Colonization Timeline

By Nahome
  • 1498

    Vasco de gama

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

  • Trade with the East Indies

    Queen Anne 1 granted a royal charter to some London merchants to have sole ownership of trade with the East Indies.

  • Establishment of first factory post

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

  • The rise of the EIC

    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.The act granted by King Charles II gave the EIC the power to colonize territories, mint its own money, employ its own military, make peace, declare war, and have judicial powers over those territories taken over.

  • The British Empire first start

    After the Battle of Plassey, when the Nawab of Bengal surrendered his dominions to the British East India Company.

  • The EIC gains control

    the EIC fought the Mughal emperor and the Nawab of Oudh to gain control of Bihar and Oudh.

  • The Sepoy Mutiny

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

  • The Government of India Act transfer

    The Government of India Act transferred full governing authority from the EIC to the British government.

  • Queen Victoria

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

  • The Salt March

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

  • The End of The Indian Colonization

    By the end of World War II, the British were ready to give up rule in India which led to Indian independence and the partition of the ruled area into two separate nations- Pakistan and India. When the British walked away, India/Pakistan was no longer one of the wealthiest regions in the world, they were among the bottom in wealth.