CBSE Class 8 - History - Chapter 2: From Trade to Territory - COLONISATION OF INDIA (Timelines) (#cbseNotes)

Chapter 2: From Trade to Territory
COLONISATION OF INDIA (Timelines)

1. 1498: Vasco da gama discovered a new trade route

2. 1600: East India company formed

3. 1602: Dutch east India company formed

4. 1664: French east India company formed

5. 1774-1763: Anglo carnatic wars



6. 1651: first trade settlement at hugli

7. 1690: English factory at sutanuti

8. 1756: Siraj ud daulah became nawab

9. 1757: Battle of Plassey

10. 1764: Battle of Buxar

11. 1760: Mir qasim became new nawab of Bengal

12. Till 1772: Dual government

13. 1772: Warren Hastings became governor of Bengal

14. 1773: Warren Hastings became governor general of Indian territories

15. 1773: Calcutta became capital

16. 1767-1799: Mysore wars

17. 1798: Subsidiary alliance by lord Wellesley

18. 1775-1818: Anglo Maratha wars

19. 1809: Treaty at Amritsar

20. 1814-1816: Anglo Gorkha war

21. 1849: Annexation of Punjab

22. 1850: Annexation of Sikkim