1600-1947: India’s Road to Independence 1600-1947: India’s Road to Independence 1600: Brish East India Company is formed 1611: Brish establish first “factory” or trading post in Machilipatnam (Andhra Pradesh) on Coromandel Coast on Bay of Bengal 1608: First Brish ships land in India at Surat, Gujarat 1600-1947: India’s Road to Independence 1612: Brish East India Company’s 1615: Sir Thomas Roe signed navy defeats the Portuguese in the commercial treaty with Jahangir in Bale of Swally near Surat, Gujarat, exchange for luxury goods from Europe and establishes a trading post. and naval protecon against the Portuguese sea power 1614-1618: Sir Thomas Roe stays at Jahangir’s court to press for expanded trading rights 1600-1947: India’s Road to Independence 1661: Portuguese cede Bombay 1638: East India Company to England for access to trade trading post in Surat, Gujarat becomes chief establishment 1640: East India Company establishes trading post in Madras 1600-1947: India’s Road to Independence 1664: French East India 1674: French establish Pondicherry on Company formed the Bay of Bengal 1668: England leases Bombay to East India Company for 10£ per year. 1600-1947: India’s Road to Independence 1687: East India Company moves headquarters from Surat 1697: London weavers aack to Bombay East India Company headquarters in protest of imported texles from India 1690: East India Company establishes trading post in Kalikata (Calcua/ Kolkata) 1600-1947: India’s Road to Independence 1757: East India Company takes 1751: Robert Clive defeats the control of Bengal; millions Nawab of Arcot and his French displaced allies in south India 1757: Robert Clive defeats the Nawab of Bengal at the Bale of Plassey 1600-1947: India’s Road to Independence 1780: Tipu Sultan defeats the East India Company army at the Bale of 1773: Warren Pollilur Hasngs becomes first Governor-General of India 1775-1782: First Anglo-Maratha War; Marathas defeated Brish & Treaty of Salbai signed and land returned to Maratha kingdom 1600-1947: India’s Road to Independence 1799: Tipu Sultan defeated at his capital in Srirangapanam by East India Company forces 1786: Sir William Jones idenfies Indo-European language family, showing common root between north Indian & European languages 1787: Warren Hasngs tried and impeached for corrupon (acquied in 1795) 1600-1947: India’s Road to Independence 1803-1805: Second Anglo-Maratha War; Brish defeat Marathas and 1817-1818: Third Anglo- East India Company gains much Maratha War; Brish defeated land, including Delhi and Agra the Marathas marking an end to the empire; most of India now under Brish control. 1813: Charter Act of 1813 allowed Chrisan missionaries into India, provided an educaon system, and ended East India Company’s monopoly on trade, except for tea 1600-1947: India’s Road to Independence 1828: Ram Mohan Roy establishes the Brahmo Samaj in Calcua to iniate religious and 1835: Thomas Macaulay’s social reform educaon system replaces tradional learning; English becomes official language of government 1835: Civil Service Jobs in India open to Indian cizens 1600-1947: India’s Road to Independence 1837: Brish government 1845-6: First Anglo-Sikh War; formalizes system of Indian Brish defeated Sikhs and gained indentured labor much land in the Punjab and all of Kashmir. 1843: East India Company army conquers the Sindh region 1600-1947: India’s Road to Independence 1848-9: Second Anglo-Sikh war; Brish defeat Sikhs and take the remainder of the Punjab and NW Froner; Kashmir is sold to Maharaja of Jammu 1857-1858: “Sepoy Muny” or “India’s First War of Independence” 1600-1947: India’s Road to Independence 1858: East India Company dissolves (1600-1858); Brish Raj in India (1858-1947) 1600-1947: India’s Road to Independence 1876: Queen Victoria 1883: assumes the tle Empress Anandi Gopal Joshi, perhaps of India the first Indian woman in 1875: Swami Dayananda America, arrives in New York to Sarasva establishes Arya aend the Women’s Medical Samaj to revive Hinduism College of Pennsylvania within Vedic tradions 1600-1947: India’s Road to Independence 1885: First Indian Naonal Congress meets in Bombay 1898: (Lokmanya) Bal Banghadar Tilak demands self-rule: "Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!” 1888: Gurubai Karmarkar begins studying at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania 1600-1947: India’s Road to Independence 1900: 1901: Mohandas Gandhi visits India India’s tea exports to Britain from South Africa to aend meeng of reach 137 million pounds per Indian Naonal Congress year 1905: Paron of Bengal 1600-1947: India’s Road to Independence 1905: 1906: Swadeshi Campaign & All India Muslim League established Boyco of Brish Goods in Dhaka 1913: Rabindranath Tagore receives Nobel Prize for Literature 1911: India’s capital moved from Calcua to Delhi 1600-1947: India’s Road to Independence 1915: Mohandas Gandhi 1919: returns to India and Jallianwala Bagh Massacre establishes Satyagraha in Amritsar Ashram 1917: Gandhi founds Sabarma Ashram 1920: Mohandas Gandhi begins Satyagraha campaign 1600-1947: India’s Road to Independence 1924: Gandhi released from prison 1922: on medical grounds Gandhi arrested for sedion and sentenced to a six-year prison term 1924: Gandhi undertakes a 21-day fast for Hindu-Muslim Unity following Kohat riots 1600-1947: India’s Road to Independence 1930: 1929: Indian Naonal Congress calls Mother Teresa for Purna Swaraj (“complete arrives in Calcua self-rule”) 1929: Jawaharlal Nehru is elected president of the Indian Naonal Congress 1600-1947: India’s Road to Independence 1931: 1930: Indian Naonal Congress Gandhi leads Salt March from adopts chakra for the Sabarma Ashram to Dandi, center of the flag Gujarat in protest of salt tax 1942: ‘Quit India’ resoluon passes All India Congress Commiee and civil disobedience across India begins 1600-1947: India’s Road to Independence 1944: Kasturba Gandhi, affeconately called ‘Ba,’ passes away August 15, 1947: India declared independent .