 1498: Vasco da Gama discovered India

 1600: East India Company got charter from Queen Elizabeth I

 1651: First English Factory was built up on the banks of river
Hugli
 1698: East India Company got zamindari rights over three
villages of Bengal (Kalikata, Sutanuti, Govindapur)
 1707: Death of Aurangzeb
 1743: Robert Clive came to Madras from England at the age of
eighteen
 1756: Death of Alivardi Khan
 1757: Battle of Plassey
 1761: Third Battle of Panipat (between Marathas and Durrani
empire of Afghanistan)
 1761-1782: Haidar Ali ruled upon Mysore
 1764: Battle of Buxar; Robert Clive was appointed Governor of
Bengal
 1765: Death of Mir Jafar; Mughal Emperor appointed the East
India Company as the Diwan of the provinces of Bengal
 1767: Robert Clive left India
 1772: Clive was cross examined by the British Parliament; A
new system of justice was established (two kinds of courts)
 1773-1785: Warren Hastings as first Governor – General
 1773: Under the Regulating Act, a new Supreme Court was
established while, a court of appeal - Sadar Nizamat Adalat -
was set in Calcutta
 1774: Clive committed suicide
 1775: Eleven pandits were asked to compile a digest of Hindu
laws
 1778: A code of Muslim laws was compiled
 1782: Tipu Sultan became the ruler of Mysore; End of First
Anglo-Maratha war
 1785: Tipu Sultan stopped the export of sandalwood, pepper,
and cardamom and disallowed local merchants to trade with
the Company
 1799: Tipu Sultan died defending his capital Seringapatam on 4
May
 1798-1805: Richard Wellesley as Governor- General
 1801: When Richard Wellesley was Governor-General, the
Nawab of Awadh was forced to give over half of his territory to
the East India Company
 1803-1805: Second Anglo-Maratha war
 1813- 1823: Lord Hastings as Governor-General
 1817-1819: Third Anglo-Maratha war
 1824: Rani Channamma was arrested
 1829: Rani Channamma died in prison
 1830: Rayanna was hanged by the British
 1838-1842: The British fought with Afghanistan and established
indirect Company rule
 1839: Death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh
 1843: Annexation of Sind
 1848-1856: Lord Dalhousie as Governor - General
 1848: Annexation of Satara
 1849: Annexation of Punjab
 1850: Annexation of Sambalpur
 1852: Annexation of Udaipur
 1853: Annexation of Nagpur
 1854: Annexation of Jhansi
 1856: The Company took over Awadh
 1857: Revolt broke out in Awadh