East India Company
London merchants' company chartered in 1600 that became a ruler of India before Parliament took it apart.
OrganizationAlso known as English East India Company, Honourable East India Company
1600 O.S. – 1 Jun 1874
Over time
enemy of
Aurangzeb
Lakshmibai
leased from
Charles II of England
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- Identifiers
- Wikidata Q83164
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- Aurangzeb1686 – 1690
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- Lakshmibai1857 – 1858
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- Charles II of Englandsince 1668
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Appears in64 items
- The American Revolution1 item
- The East India Company48 items
- Trading company31 Dec 1600 O.S.
- Elizabeth I charters the Company31 Dec 1600 O.S.
- Lancaster’s first voyage13 Feb 1600/01 O.S.
- A factory at BantamDec 1602 O.S.
- Battle of Swally29 Nov 1612 O.S.
- A factory at Surat1613 O.S.
- Sir Thomas Roe before Jahangir10 Jan 1615/16 O.S.
- The Amboyna executions9 Mar 1623
- Land granted at Madraspatnam22 Aug 1639 O.S.
- The Company moves to Leadenhall Street1648 O.S.
- Cromwell’s charter: a permanent joint stock19 Oct 1657 O.S.
- Charles II leases Bombay to the Company27 Mar 1668 O.S.
- Child’s War1686 O.S.
- Job Charnock lands at Sutanuti24 Aug 1690 O.S.
- Old and new companies merge29 Sep 1708 O.S.
- A trading post at Canton1711 O.S.
- Farrukhsiyar’s farman1717
- Siraj ud-Daulah takes Calcutta20 Jun 1756
- Territorial power23 Jun 1757
- Battle of Plassey23 Jun 1757
- Battle of Buxar22 Oct 1764
- The diwani of Bengal12 Aug 1765
- Bengal famine1769
- The Company asks for a bailoutJul 1772
- A monopoly on Bengal opium1773
- The Tea Act10 May 1773
- The Regulating ActJun 1773
- Tea into Boston Harbor16 Dec 1773
- The Wealth of Nations9 Mar 1776
- Pitt’s India Act13 Aug 1784
- The Permanent Settlement22 Mar 1793
- The fall of Seringapatam4 May 1799
- General Lake takes Delhi11 Sep 1803
- Charter Act ends the India monopoly22 Jul 1813
- Raffles founds Singapore6 Feb 1819
- Charter Act ends the Company’s trade28 Aug 1833
- Administrator22 Apr 1834
- Lin Zexu destroys the opium3 Jun 1839
- First Opium War4 Sep 1839
- Nemesis at Chuenpi7 Jan 1841
- Robert Fortune takes tea out of China1848
- Awadh annexed7 Feb 1856
- Indian Rebellion of 185710 May 1857
- Mutiny at Meerut10 May 1857
- Delhi retaken20 Sep 1857
- Government of India Act2 Aug 1858
- Winding up1 Nov 1858
- The Company is dissolved1 Jun 1874
- The History of India
