EAST INDIA COMPANY.
Obtained from Shah Alam the Dewani of Bengal, Behar, and Orkaa, April . . 1765 Suppressed officers' conspiracy, . . . 1766 Abolished private trade, January . . . 1767 Quitted India, January . . . . . 1767 A committee of Parliament forrned to examine charges against him . . . . . 1773 Destroyed himself, 2d•Novensber . . . 1774 1751. Tatta, factories at.
Circara. The five northern wore granted to the French, 1753. In 1759 Clive 'seized them, and they were secured by treaty in 1765.
1755. Commodore James and Tlahratta army took Severndrug and Bancoote from Conaji Angria. Ilth February 1756, Clive and Admiral Watson took Gheriah.
1756. Dacca ceded to E. I. Co. by Shah Alam.
1756. Ali Vardi Khan, Nawab of Bengal, died.
1756, June 20. Suraj - ud - Dowla attacked and took Calcutta. 146 British thrust into a small guard room ; only 23 came out alive next morning. Re taken by Clive and Watson 2d January 1757. First territorial possessions in 'Bengal.
1756. Angria taken, and forts destroyed.
1757 to 1783. Sir Eyre Coote's victories.
1761. 5Iajor Ifector Munro took Mahe. 1763, restored. 1761, 7th January. l'anipat, battle of.
1763, April. Nawab Mir liasim Ali took up arms against E. I. Co. ; was defeated at Bhagulpur, and fled. Mir Jafar restored.
1765, January. Mir Jafar died, and his son Najm-ud Dowla installed. Pensioned, June 1765.
1765, 3d May. Shuja-ud-Dowla, Vizir of Ondh, de feated at Corah, near Allahabad.
1765. Emperor of Dehli grants tho Circars to E. I. Co. 1765, 12th August. Emperor grants E. I. Co. the Deward of Bengal, Behar, and Orissa, and confirms the jaghir to Clive.
1767. Hyder Ali assumes rule of Mysore.
1767. Hyder Ali's first war with E. I. Co. ; his troops approached Madras, and 9th April 1769 peace declared, in atatu quo.
1780, 21st July. Hyder invaded the Karnatio, and plundered Porto Novo and Conjeveram ; and 10th September destroyed Colonel Baillie's detach ment at Perambakam.
1781, 18th February. Hyder destroys Colonel Braith waite's force on the banks of the Colernn, 40 miles from Tanjore.
1781, July lat. Ryder Ali defeated at Porto Novo by Sir Eyre Coote.
1782, 7th December. Hyder, aged SO yearn, died nt Chitore.
1764. Mutiny on account of money claims.
1766, 1st January. Double baits abolished, and officers mutinied.
irn. May. Dehli emperor places himself under ?dab ratta protection ; in Blahratta hands ho became a nominal sovereign.
1773, 30th August. Narain Rao Peshwa murdered, and Ragonath Rao succeeded.
1773. Act of Parliament made Madras and Bombay subordinate to Bengal ; appointing a Court of Directora for four years, with a Governor-General in Bengal, upon an annual salary of 2i lakba of rupees, with a Council of four members on one lakh each, a Supreme Court in Calcutta on the niodel of the Westminieter Courts of Law, with a Chief Justice and three Puisne Judges. A monopoly of the trade with China granted.
1501, &I Septr. Madras Supreme Court of Judi cature instituted.
11327, 9th July. Natives of India authorized to sit as jurors.
1773. Value of British goods exported was .2459,b133. 1780. IP 2401,166. 1772. Net revenues, Bengal, Bear, Orissa, £2,126,766. 1785. OP 22,07'2,963.
1797. of India £8,056,000.
1805. „ 215,403,000.
1774. Phi rp num, a member of Council, Bengal.
"F 1780, wounded in a duel with Warren Hastings. 1781. Warren Ilastiuga founded Madrassa at Calcutta. 1774, 231 April. 40,0W Rohillas under Halls Rahmat defeated by army under Colonel Champion.
From the date of that small factory grant in 1613 at Surat, the English East India Company grew, in India, up to the year 1857. In that interval they decided the fate of kings, emperors, and rajas, and had drawn under their direct rule 150,000,000 of people, with 70,000,000 more under allied sovereigns. Their dominion was at length in 1858 absorbed under the administration of the British Crown, consequent on a great revolt of the native sepoy army of Bengal, during which the predatory races of the north, and the dissatis fied amongst the nobles, took the opportunity to plunder and strive for independence, and during their efforts much innocent blood was shed, and many horrors enacted. In the century of their rule, however, amongst the servants Of the com pany, there bhd been many great statesmen, many eminent commanders, and many learned men. For one hundred years large parts of India had been under their sway. During their rule they put down predatory warfare everywhere.