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The British East India Company

The British East India Company

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    1600  CEBritain's East India Company was founded.
    1601  CEJohn Lancaster leads the first East India Company voyage from London.
    1668  CEEnglish King Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company.
    1729  CEChina banned opium importation which would be seriously compromised by the British East India Company until 1839.
    1784  CEThe India Act established a Board of Control to oversee the revenue administration and diplomatic functions of the East India Company as well as the aspects of its military expansion although the company maintained sole responsibility for trade and patronage
    1823  CEEast India Company employees Charles Alexander and Robert Bruce discovered a kind of tea previously unknown to Europeans (Camellia sinensis var. assamica). It was growing in Assam a province of northern India. The first shipments of Assam tea arrived in England in 1838.
    1824  CEAfter decades of battles between the Dutch and English over control of East Indian spice trade a formal treaty gave the Dutch control of the Malay Archipelago minus North Borneo. The British retained control of North Borneo, the Malay mainland, India, Ceylon and Singapore.
    1826  CEStraits Settlements formed by East India Company. 
    1838  CEThe new viceroy in Canton destroyed the British East India Company's illegal opium imports a total of 2,640 thousand pounds.
    1839  CEAden conquered by British East India Company.
    1857  CEStart of Indian mutany of local soldiers of the East India Company against the British Raj leading to a general uprising in places.
    1857  CEThe Indian Mutiny begins with revolt of Sepoys of Meerutkazerne in Delhi.
    1858  CEEnd the Indian mutany of local soldiers against the British Raj and the British crown took over the government of India from the East India Company.
 
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