Class 8 - The Colonial Era in India Timeline
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Vasco da Gama’s arrival at Calicut (Kozhikode)
1560
Establishment of the Inquisition at Goa
1612-1690
The English East India Company establishes trading posts at Surat, Madras, Bombay and Calcutta
1674
The French East India Company sets up a trading post at Pondicherry
1741
Defeat of the Dutch at the Battle of Colachel
1746-1763
The Carnatic Wars between the British and the French
1757
British victory in the Battle of Plassey
1770-1772
First great famine in Bengal
1818
Third Anglo-Maratha war ends Maratha power
1829-1833
The Khasi Uprising (in present-day Meghalaya)
1835
Macaulay’s Minute on Indian Education
1848-49
Fall of the Sikh Empire; the East India Company annexes Punjab
1857
The Great Indian Rebellion (Sepoy Mutiny)
1858
The British Crown ends the rule of the East India Company; start of the British Raj
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