Accession of
Jahandar
Shah.
Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India
and WILLMOT, C.
Historical and descriptive sketch of the
Nizam's dominions. 2 vols. 1883-4.
COLEBROOKE, Sir H. T. Life of Elphinstone. 2 vols. 1884.
DALY, Major H. Memoirs of General Sir Henry Dermot Daly. 1905.
FRASER, Col. HASTINGS. Memoir and correspondence of General James Stuart
Fraser. 1885.
HARDINGE, Viscount. Viscount Hardinge. Oxford, 1900.
HOPE, J. The house of Scindea. 1863.
KAYE, J. W. Life. . . of Charles, Lord Metcalfe. 2 vols. 1858.
LEE-WARNER, Sir WILLIAM. Life of the Marquis of Dalhousie. 2 vols. 1904.
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MALLISON, G. B. An Historical Sketch of the Native States of India in Sub-
sidiary Alliance with the British Government. 1875.
MEHTA, M. S. Lord Hastings and the Indian States. (Unpublished thesis. )
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tration of the Marquess of Hastings. 2 vols. 1825.
Rice, B. L. Mysore and Coorg. (Imp. Gaz. Prov. Ser. 1908. )
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TAYLOR, MEADOWS. Story of my life. Ed. Bruce. 1920.
TUPPER. CHARLES LEWIS. Our Indian Protectorate. 1893.
CHAPTER XXXII
THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOVEREIGNTY IN BRITISH INDIA
In general the reader should consult the previous bibliographies.
Home Miscellaneous Series 336 contains a collection of papers relative to
the Mughul Emperor 1781-1812.
Parliamentary Papers, 1805, x, 757, contains papers relating to Wellesley's
settlement; and 1859, session I, XVIII, III, and session II, XXV, 331, contain papers
relating to the trial of the King of Delhi.
The Punjab Government Records, vol. 1 (Lahore, 1911) contains very
valuable selections from the records of the Delhi Residency 1807-57.
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
1497-8
1500
1502
1503
1504
1505
1506
1508
1509
1509
1510
1511
1513
1515
Vasco da Gama's first voyage.
Cabral's voyage; factory established at Cochin.
Bull of Alexander VI.
War between the Zamorin and Raja of Cochin.
Albuquerque's first voyage.
Duarte Pacheco's defence of Cochin.
Francisco d'Almeida viceroy.
Cochin the Portuguese headquarters.
Albuquerque's second voyage: first siege of Orınuz.
Lourenço d'Almeida defeated by the Egyptian squadron off Chaul.
Francisco d'Almeida defeats the Eg an squadron off Diu.
Albuquerque governor of India.
Goa occupied.
Malacca taken by Albuquerque.
Albuquerque's attempt on Aden.
Albuquerque establishes Portuguese suzerainty over Ormuz,
Death of Albuquerque.
Soares' attempt on Aden.
Expedition to Ceylon.
Diogo Lopes' expedition to the Red Sea.
De Brito besieged in Colombo.
Vasco da Gama dies at Cochin.
Nuno da Cunha governor of India.
Goa becomes the Portuguese headquarters.
Bassein ceded to the Portuguese.
The Portuguese permitted to build a fort at Diu.
Bahadur Shah's quarrel with the Portuguese and death.
See of Goa established.
1516
1518
1520
1521
1524
1529
1530
1534
1537
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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
655
1538 The Turkish squadron attacks Diu.
Garcia de Noronha viceroy.
1540 Portuguese treaty with the Zamorin.
1541 Portuguese expedition to Suakin.
Francis Xavier arrives in India.
1545 Joao de Castro viceroy.
1546 Second siege. of Diu.
1548 Death of Joao de Castro.
1550 Affonso de Noronha viceroy.
1552 Francis Xavier dies.
1554 Pedro de Mascarenhas viceroy.
1555 Portuguese war in Ceylon.
1557 Goa made a metropolitan see.
1559 Daman occupied by the Portuguese.
1560 Goa made an archbishopric.
1562 Siege of Daman.
1564 Portuguese war in Malabar.
1569 Luiz d'Atayde reduces Honawar.
Camoens returns from Goa to Lisbon.
1570 Defence of Chaul.
1571 Dom Antonio de Noronha viceroy.
1578 King Sebastian killed in Morocco.
1579 Linschoten reaches Goa.
1586 Portuguese war with Raja Sinha.
1590 Capture of the Madre de Dios.
1595 Houtman's voyage.
1600 Charter to the London East India. Company.
1602 Formation of the United Dutch East India Company.
Spilbergen in Ceylon.
1603 Mildenhall at Agra.
1605 Death of Akbar and accession of Jahangir.
1606 Dutch blockade of Goa.
1609 Hawkins at Agra.
Dutch factory at Pulicat.
1611 Middleton at Surat.
1612 Best at Surat.
Danish East India Company founded.
1615 Roe at the Moghul Court.
1616 The Danes at Tranquebar.
1619 Anglo-Dutch treaty.
1622 The Portuguese expelled from Ormuz.
1623 The massacre of Amboyna.
1625 Dutch factory at Chinsura.
1629 Death of Jahangir and accession of Shah Jahan.
1634 Farman permitting English trade in Bengal.
1635 Courteen's Association formed.
1638 Dutch attack Portuguese in Ceylon.
1639 Fort St George founded.
1644 Temporary peace between the Dutch and Portuguese in the East.
1651 English factory at Hugli founded.
1654 Treaty of Westminster.
1657-8 Moghul war of succession; Aurangzib emperor.
1660 Portuguese completely driven from Ceylon.
1661 Charles II's charter to the East India Company.
Cession of Bombay to the English.
1663 Publication of peace between the Dutch and Portuguese.
1664 Sivaji plunders Surat.
Colbert founds the Compagnie des Indes.
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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
1665
1667
1670
1671
1673
1674
1680
1683
1686
1688
1690
1693
1698
1702
1707
1712
1713
1715
1719
1720
1722
1726
1731
1735
1737
1739
1740
1741
1742
Humphrey Cooke obtains possession of Bombay.
Treaty of Breda.
Sivaji again plunders Surat.
La Haye's expedition.
The French besieged in St Thomé.
François Martin founds Pondichery.
Dedication of St Mary's Church in Fort St. George.
Keigwin's mutiny at Bombay.
English war with the Moghuls.
Heath's expedition to Bengal.
Calcutta founded.
Death of Job Charnock.
The Dutch capture Pondichery.
Formation of the English East India Company.
Amalgamation of the English and London East India Companies.
Death of Aurangzib; accession of Bahadur Shah.
Accession of Jahandar Shah.
Accession of Farrukhsiyar.
Surman's embassy to Farrukhsiyar.
Murder of Farrukhsiyar.
Accession of Muhammad Shah.
Law's Company formed.
Baji Rao I Peshwa.
Ostend East India Company set up.
Lenoir governor of Pondichery.
Charter establishing courts of law at the English presidencies.
Dupleix directeur of Chandernagore.
The Swedish East India Company foundea.
Dumas governor of Pondichery.
The Marathas occupy Salsette.
Nadir Shah's invasion of India.
The Marathas raid the Carnatic; Nawab Dost 'Ali killed.
Chanda Sahib captured by the Marathas.
Dupleix governor of Pondichery.
Murder of Safdar 'Ali, Nawab of the Carnatic.
Nizam-ul-mulk's expedition to the Carnatic.
War of the Austrian Succession.
Anwar-ud-din Nawab of the Carnatic.
La Bourdonnais takes Madras.
Boscawen besieges Pondichery.
Death of Nizam-ul-mulk.
Ahmad Khan Durani invades the Panjal
Accession of Ahmad Shah.
Chanda Sahib with French aid defeats and kills Anwar-ud-din at
Ambur.
Madras restored to the English.
Defeat and death of Nasir Jang.
Bussy establishes Salabat Jang as subahdar of the Deccan.
Clive's seizure and defence of Arcot.
Chanda Sahib killed by the Tanjoreans and Law surrenders to the
English.
Cession of the Northern Sarkars to Bussy.
Conference of Sadras.
Recall of Dupleix.
Accession of 'Alamgir II.
Truce between the French and the English.
Clive returns to India.
Capture of Gheria.
1743
1744
1746
1748
1749
1750
1751
1752
1753
1754
1755
1756
## p. 657 (#685) ############################################
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
657
1756 Bussy's defence of the Chahar Mahal.
Siraj-ud-daula captures Calcutta.
The Seven Years' War:
1757 Clive recovers Calcutta and takes Chandernagore.
The battle of Plassey.
Mir Ja'far Nawab of Bengal.
1758 Lally's expedition.
Capture of Fort St David.
Bussy recalled from the Deccan.
Lally besieges Madras.
1759 Forde captures Masulipatam.
'Ali Gauhar invades Bihar.
The Dutch expedition against the English in Bengal.
'Alamgir II murdered by Ghazi-ud-din.
1760 Battle of Wandiwash.
Clive returns to England.
'Ali Gauhar again in Bihar, and proclaims himself Shah 'Alam II.
The Marathas capture Delhi.
Mir Kasim made Nawab of Bengal.
1761 Battle of Panipat.
Capitulation of Pondichery.
Hyder 'Ali usurps Mysore.
Nizam 'Ali imprisons his brother Salabat Jang.
1763 War with Mir Kasim; re-establishment of Mir Ja'far.
Treaty of Paris.
1765 Clive returns to India and obtains a grant of the diwanni of Bengal.
1766 The Bengal officers' mutiny.
Nizam 'Ali grants the Northern Sarkars to the English.
1767-9 The first Mysore War.
1769 Appointment of Scrafton, Forde, and Vansittart as supervisors.
1770 Lindsay at Madras.
1771 Shah Alam leaves Allahabad for Delhi.
1772 Warren Hastings governor of Fort William.
Trial of Muhammad Reza Khan.
Madhava Rao Peshwa dies.
1773 The Regulating Act passed.
Taimur Shah succeeds to Ahmad Shah Durani.
Narayana Rao murdered.
1774 The Rohilla War.
Bogle's mission to Tibet.
The Regulating Act comes into force.
1775 The treaty of Surat.
The trial of Nandakumar.
1776 The treaty of Purandhar.
Lord Pigot arrested by a majority of the Madras Council.
1776 Death of Colonel Monson.
1777 General Clavering dies.
1778 Sir Thomas Rumbold governor of Madras.
Renewed war with the Marathas.
Capture of Pondichery. ·
1779 Convention of Wadgaon.
Capture of Mahé.
Goddard's expedition.
1780 Popham's capture of Gwalior.
Duel between Hastings and Francis.
Second Mysore War.
1781 Battle of Porto Novo.
Lord Macartney governor of Madras.
42
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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
1781
1782
1783
1784
1785
1786
1788
1789
1790
1793
1794
1795
1796
1797
1798
Chait Singh deposed.
Treaty of Chunar with Asaf-ud-daula.
The French fleet under Suffren arrives on the Coromandel Coast.
The Treaty of Salbai.
Death of Hyder 'Ali.
Arrival of Bussy's expedition at Cuddalore.
Death of Sir Eyre Coote.
News of peace with the French.
Fox's India Bills.
Treaty of Mangalore.
Pitt's India Act.
Warren Hastings resigns.
Lord Cornwallis governor-general.
Hastings's trial begins.
Ghulam Kadir seizes and blinds Shah Alam.
Tipu attacks Travancore.
Third Mysore War.
The Company's Charter renewed.
The Permanent Settlement of Bengal.
Capture of Pondichery.
Sir John Shore governor-general.
Mahadaji Sindhia dies
The battle of Kharda.
Expedition against the Dutch in Ceylon.
Death of Muhammad 'Ali Walajah.
Baji Rao II Peshwa.
Zaman Shah at Lahore.
Death of Asaf-ud-daula.
Wazir 'Ali deposed and succeeded by Sa'adat 'Ali.
Tipu's mission to Mauritius.
Lord Mornington governor-general.
Subsidiary treaty with Nizam 'Ali.
Fourth Mysore War.
Marshman at Serampore.
Malcolm's mission to Persia.
Death of Nana Phadnavis.
The College of Fort William established.
Baird's expedition to the Red Sea.
The assumption of the Carnatic.
Treaty with Sa'adat 'Ali.
Symes's mission to Ava.
Treaty of Bassein.
War with Sindhia.
Treaties of Deogaon and Surji Arjungaon.
War with Holkar.
Siege of Bharatpur.
Lord Cornwallis supersedes Lord Wellesley and dies.
Missions to Persia, Lahore, Peshawur and Sinu.
Bourbon and Mauritius captured by the English.
Java occupied by the English.
The Company's charter renewed, but its monopoly of the trade to
India abolished.
Lord Moira (Hastings) governor-general.
The Nepal War.
The last Maratha War,
Baji Rao II deposed.
Lord Amherst governor-general.
1799
1800
1801
1802
1803
1804
1805
1808
1810
1811
1813
1814
1817
1818
1823
## p. 659 (#687) ############################################
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
659
1824
1825
1827
1828
1829
1830
1832
1833
1834
1836
1837
1838
1839
1840
1841
1842
The first Burmese War.
Dutch settlements in India transferred to the English.
The voyage of the Enterprise.
The second siege of Bhartpur.
Daulat Rao Sindhia dies.
Lord William Bentinck governor-general.
Measures against thagi.
Prohibition of sati.
Mysore rebellion.
Treaty for the free navigation of the Indus.
The Company's charter renewed but its trade abolished.
The annexation of Coorg.
Macaulay appointed Law member of council.
Province of Agra formed.
Lord Auckland governor-general.
Burnes's mission to Kabul.
Siege of Herat.
The Tripartite Treaty.
Shah Shuja enthroned at Kandahar.
Death of Ranjit Singh.
Dost Muhammad surrenders.
The revolt at Kabul; murders of Burnes and later of Macnaghten.
Massacre of the Kabul brigade.
Lord Ellenborough governor-general.
Withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Conquest of Sind.
Battle of Maharajpur.
Lord Ellenborough recalled; Sir Henry_Hardinge governor-gene. al.
Danish settlements transferred to the English.
First Sikh War.
Battle of Sobraon and peace with the Sikhs.
Lord Dalhousie governor-general.
Annexation of Satara.
Second Sikh War.
Battle of Gujrat and annexation of the Panjab.
Second Burmese War.
Railway opened from Bombay to Thana.
Cession of Berar.
Annexation of Nagpur.
The Company's charter renewed.
The Ganges Canal opened.
Treaty with Dost Muhammad.
Annexation of Oudh.
Lord Canning governor-general.
War with Persia.
The Sepoy Mutiny.
Assumption of government of India by the crown.
Nizam's dominions. 2 vols. 1883-4.
COLEBROOKE, Sir H. T. Life of Elphinstone. 2 vols. 1884.
DALY, Major H. Memoirs of General Sir Henry Dermot Daly. 1905.
FRASER, Col. HASTINGS. Memoir and correspondence of General James Stuart
Fraser. 1885.
HARDINGE, Viscount. Viscount Hardinge. Oxford, 1900.
HOPE, J. The house of Scindea. 1863.
KAYE, J. W. Life. . . of Charles, Lord Metcalfe. 2 vols. 1858.
LEE-WARNER, Sir WILLIAM. Life of the Marquis of Dalhousie. 2 vols. 1904.
The Native States of India. 1910
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
LUARD, Capt. C. E. Central India. (Imp. Gaz. Prov. Ser. 1908. )
MALCOLM, Sir JOHN. Memoir of Central India. 3rd ed. 1832.
MALLISON, G. B. An Historical Sketch of the Native States of India in Sub-
sidiary Alliance with the British Government. 1875.
MEHTA, M. S. Lord Hastings and the Indian States. (Unpublished thesis. )
MIRZA MEHDY KHAN. Hyderabad State. (Imp. Gaz. Prov. Ser. Calcutta, 1909. )
PRINSEP, H. T. Political and military transactions in India under the adminis-
tration of the Marquess of Hastings. 2 vols. 1825.
Rice, B. L. Mysore and Coorg. (Imp. Gaz. Prov. Ser. 1908. )
SHAHAMET ALI. History of Bahawalpur. 1848.
TAYLOR, MEADOWS. Story of my life. Ed. Bruce. 1920.
TUPPER. CHARLES LEWIS. Our Indian Protectorate. 1893.
CHAPTER XXXII
THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOVEREIGNTY IN BRITISH INDIA
In general the reader should consult the previous bibliographies.
Home Miscellaneous Series 336 contains a collection of papers relative to
the Mughul Emperor 1781-1812.
Parliamentary Papers, 1805, x, 757, contains papers relating to Wellesley's
settlement; and 1859, session I, XVIII, III, and session II, XXV, 331, contain papers
relating to the trial of the King of Delhi.
The Punjab Government Records, vol. 1 (Lahore, 1911) contains very
valuable selections from the records of the Delhi Residency 1807-57.
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
1497-8
1500
1502
1503
1504
1505
1506
1508
1509
1509
1510
1511
1513
1515
Vasco da Gama's first voyage.
Cabral's voyage; factory established at Cochin.
Bull of Alexander VI.
War between the Zamorin and Raja of Cochin.
Albuquerque's first voyage.
Duarte Pacheco's defence of Cochin.
Francisco d'Almeida viceroy.
Cochin the Portuguese headquarters.
Albuquerque's second voyage: first siege of Orınuz.
Lourenço d'Almeida defeated by the Egyptian squadron off Chaul.
Francisco d'Almeida defeats the Eg an squadron off Diu.
Albuquerque governor of India.
Goa occupied.
Malacca taken by Albuquerque.
Albuquerque's attempt on Aden.
Albuquerque establishes Portuguese suzerainty over Ormuz,
Death of Albuquerque.
Soares' attempt on Aden.
Expedition to Ceylon.
Diogo Lopes' expedition to the Red Sea.
De Brito besieged in Colombo.
Vasco da Gama dies at Cochin.
Nuno da Cunha governor of India.
Goa becomes the Portuguese headquarters.
Bassein ceded to the Portuguese.
The Portuguese permitted to build a fort at Diu.
Bahadur Shah's quarrel with the Portuguese and death.
See of Goa established.
1516
1518
1520
1521
1524
1529
1530
1534
1537
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655
1538 The Turkish squadron attacks Diu.
Garcia de Noronha viceroy.
1540 Portuguese treaty with the Zamorin.
1541 Portuguese expedition to Suakin.
Francis Xavier arrives in India.
1545 Joao de Castro viceroy.
1546 Second siege. of Diu.
1548 Death of Joao de Castro.
1550 Affonso de Noronha viceroy.
1552 Francis Xavier dies.
1554 Pedro de Mascarenhas viceroy.
1555 Portuguese war in Ceylon.
1557 Goa made a metropolitan see.
1559 Daman occupied by the Portuguese.
1560 Goa made an archbishopric.
1562 Siege of Daman.
1564 Portuguese war in Malabar.
1569 Luiz d'Atayde reduces Honawar.
Camoens returns from Goa to Lisbon.
1570 Defence of Chaul.
1571 Dom Antonio de Noronha viceroy.
1578 King Sebastian killed in Morocco.
1579 Linschoten reaches Goa.
1586 Portuguese war with Raja Sinha.
1590 Capture of the Madre de Dios.
1595 Houtman's voyage.
1600 Charter to the London East India. Company.
1602 Formation of the United Dutch East India Company.
Spilbergen in Ceylon.
1603 Mildenhall at Agra.
1605 Death of Akbar and accession of Jahangir.
1606 Dutch blockade of Goa.
1609 Hawkins at Agra.
Dutch factory at Pulicat.
1611 Middleton at Surat.
1612 Best at Surat.
Danish East India Company founded.
1615 Roe at the Moghul Court.
1616 The Danes at Tranquebar.
1619 Anglo-Dutch treaty.
1622 The Portuguese expelled from Ormuz.
1623 The massacre of Amboyna.
1625 Dutch factory at Chinsura.
1629 Death of Jahangir and accession of Shah Jahan.
1634 Farman permitting English trade in Bengal.
1635 Courteen's Association formed.
1638 Dutch attack Portuguese in Ceylon.
1639 Fort St George founded.
1644 Temporary peace between the Dutch and Portuguese in the East.
1651 English factory at Hugli founded.
1654 Treaty of Westminster.
1657-8 Moghul war of succession; Aurangzib emperor.
1660 Portuguese completely driven from Ceylon.
1661 Charles II's charter to the East India Company.
Cession of Bombay to the English.
1663 Publication of peace between the Dutch and Portuguese.
1664 Sivaji plunders Surat.
Colbert founds the Compagnie des Indes.
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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
1665
1667
1670
1671
1673
1674
1680
1683
1686
1688
1690
1693
1698
1702
1707
1712
1713
1715
1719
1720
1722
1726
1731
1735
1737
1739
1740
1741
1742
Humphrey Cooke obtains possession of Bombay.
Treaty of Breda.
Sivaji again plunders Surat.
La Haye's expedition.
The French besieged in St Thomé.
François Martin founds Pondichery.
Dedication of St Mary's Church in Fort St. George.
Keigwin's mutiny at Bombay.
English war with the Moghuls.
Heath's expedition to Bengal.
Calcutta founded.
Death of Job Charnock.
The Dutch capture Pondichery.
Formation of the English East India Company.
Amalgamation of the English and London East India Companies.
Death of Aurangzib; accession of Bahadur Shah.
Accession of Jahandar Shah.
Accession of Farrukhsiyar.
Surman's embassy to Farrukhsiyar.
Murder of Farrukhsiyar.
Accession of Muhammad Shah.
Law's Company formed.
Baji Rao I Peshwa.
Ostend East India Company set up.
Lenoir governor of Pondichery.
Charter establishing courts of law at the English presidencies.
Dupleix directeur of Chandernagore.
The Swedish East India Company foundea.
Dumas governor of Pondichery.
The Marathas occupy Salsette.
Nadir Shah's invasion of India.
The Marathas raid the Carnatic; Nawab Dost 'Ali killed.
Chanda Sahib captured by the Marathas.
Dupleix governor of Pondichery.
Murder of Safdar 'Ali, Nawab of the Carnatic.
Nizam-ul-mulk's expedition to the Carnatic.
War of the Austrian Succession.
Anwar-ud-din Nawab of the Carnatic.
La Bourdonnais takes Madras.
Boscawen besieges Pondichery.
Death of Nizam-ul-mulk.
Ahmad Khan Durani invades the Panjal
Accession of Ahmad Shah.
Chanda Sahib with French aid defeats and kills Anwar-ud-din at
Ambur.
Madras restored to the English.
Defeat and death of Nasir Jang.
Bussy establishes Salabat Jang as subahdar of the Deccan.
Clive's seizure and defence of Arcot.
Chanda Sahib killed by the Tanjoreans and Law surrenders to the
English.
Cession of the Northern Sarkars to Bussy.
Conference of Sadras.
Recall of Dupleix.
Accession of 'Alamgir II.
Truce between the French and the English.
Clive returns to India.
Capture of Gheria.
1743
1744
1746
1748
1749
1750
1751
1752
1753
1754
1755
1756
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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
657
1756 Bussy's defence of the Chahar Mahal.
Siraj-ud-daula captures Calcutta.
The Seven Years' War:
1757 Clive recovers Calcutta and takes Chandernagore.
The battle of Plassey.
Mir Ja'far Nawab of Bengal.
1758 Lally's expedition.
Capture of Fort St David.
Bussy recalled from the Deccan.
Lally besieges Madras.
1759 Forde captures Masulipatam.
'Ali Gauhar invades Bihar.
The Dutch expedition against the English in Bengal.
'Alamgir II murdered by Ghazi-ud-din.
1760 Battle of Wandiwash.
Clive returns to England.
'Ali Gauhar again in Bihar, and proclaims himself Shah 'Alam II.
The Marathas capture Delhi.
Mir Kasim made Nawab of Bengal.
1761 Battle of Panipat.
Capitulation of Pondichery.
Hyder 'Ali usurps Mysore.
Nizam 'Ali imprisons his brother Salabat Jang.
1763 War with Mir Kasim; re-establishment of Mir Ja'far.
Treaty of Paris.
1765 Clive returns to India and obtains a grant of the diwanni of Bengal.
1766 The Bengal officers' mutiny.
Nizam 'Ali grants the Northern Sarkars to the English.
1767-9 The first Mysore War.
1769 Appointment of Scrafton, Forde, and Vansittart as supervisors.
1770 Lindsay at Madras.
1771 Shah Alam leaves Allahabad for Delhi.
1772 Warren Hastings governor of Fort William.
Trial of Muhammad Reza Khan.
Madhava Rao Peshwa dies.
1773 The Regulating Act passed.
Taimur Shah succeeds to Ahmad Shah Durani.
Narayana Rao murdered.
1774 The Rohilla War.
Bogle's mission to Tibet.
The Regulating Act comes into force.
1775 The treaty of Surat.
The trial of Nandakumar.
1776 The treaty of Purandhar.
Lord Pigot arrested by a majority of the Madras Council.
1776 Death of Colonel Monson.
1777 General Clavering dies.
1778 Sir Thomas Rumbold governor of Madras.
Renewed war with the Marathas.
Capture of Pondichery. ·
1779 Convention of Wadgaon.
Capture of Mahé.
Goddard's expedition.
1780 Popham's capture of Gwalior.
Duel between Hastings and Francis.
Second Mysore War.
1781 Battle of Porto Novo.
Lord Macartney governor of Madras.
42
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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
1781
1782
1783
1784
1785
1786
1788
1789
1790
1793
1794
1795
1796
1797
1798
Chait Singh deposed.
Treaty of Chunar with Asaf-ud-daula.
The French fleet under Suffren arrives on the Coromandel Coast.
The Treaty of Salbai.
Death of Hyder 'Ali.
Arrival of Bussy's expedition at Cuddalore.
Death of Sir Eyre Coote.
News of peace with the French.
Fox's India Bills.
Treaty of Mangalore.
Pitt's India Act.
Warren Hastings resigns.
Lord Cornwallis governor-general.
Hastings's trial begins.
Ghulam Kadir seizes and blinds Shah Alam.
Tipu attacks Travancore.
Third Mysore War.
The Company's Charter renewed.
The Permanent Settlement of Bengal.
Capture of Pondichery.
Sir John Shore governor-general.
Mahadaji Sindhia dies
The battle of Kharda.
Expedition against the Dutch in Ceylon.
Death of Muhammad 'Ali Walajah.
Baji Rao II Peshwa.
Zaman Shah at Lahore.
Death of Asaf-ud-daula.
Wazir 'Ali deposed and succeeded by Sa'adat 'Ali.
Tipu's mission to Mauritius.
Lord Mornington governor-general.
Subsidiary treaty with Nizam 'Ali.
Fourth Mysore War.
Marshman at Serampore.
Malcolm's mission to Persia.
Death of Nana Phadnavis.
The College of Fort William established.
Baird's expedition to the Red Sea.
The assumption of the Carnatic.
Treaty with Sa'adat 'Ali.
Symes's mission to Ava.
Treaty of Bassein.
War with Sindhia.
Treaties of Deogaon and Surji Arjungaon.
War with Holkar.
Siege of Bharatpur.
Lord Cornwallis supersedes Lord Wellesley and dies.
Missions to Persia, Lahore, Peshawur and Sinu.
Bourbon and Mauritius captured by the English.
Java occupied by the English.
The Company's charter renewed, but its monopoly of the trade to
India abolished.
Lord Moira (Hastings) governor-general.
The Nepal War.
The last Maratha War,
Baji Rao II deposed.
Lord Amherst governor-general.
1799
1800
1801
1802
1803
1804
1805
1808
1810
1811
1813
1814
1817
1818
1823
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1824
1825
1827
1828
1829
1830
1832
1833
1834
1836
1837
1838
1839
1840
1841
1842
The first Burmese War.
Dutch settlements in India transferred to the English.
The voyage of the Enterprise.
The second siege of Bhartpur.
Daulat Rao Sindhia dies.
Lord William Bentinck governor-general.
Measures against thagi.
Prohibition of sati.
Mysore rebellion.
Treaty for the free navigation of the Indus.
The Company's charter renewed but its trade abolished.
The annexation of Coorg.
Macaulay appointed Law member of council.
Province of Agra formed.
Lord Auckland governor-general.
Burnes's mission to Kabul.
Siege of Herat.
The Tripartite Treaty.
Shah Shuja enthroned at Kandahar.
Death of Ranjit Singh.
Dost Muhammad surrenders.
The revolt at Kabul; murders of Burnes and later of Macnaghten.
Massacre of the Kabul brigade.
Lord Ellenborough governor-general.
Withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Conquest of Sind.
Battle of Maharajpur.
Lord Ellenborough recalled; Sir Henry_Hardinge governor-gene. al.
Danish settlements transferred to the English.
First Sikh War.
Battle of Sobraon and peace with the Sikhs.
Lord Dalhousie governor-general.
Annexation of Satara.
Second Sikh War.
Battle of Gujrat and annexation of the Panjab.
Second Burmese War.
Railway opened from Bombay to Thana.
Cession of Berar.
Annexation of Nagpur.
The Company's charter renewed.
The Ganges Canal opened.
Treaty with Dost Muhammad.
Annexation of Oudh.
Lord Canning governor-general.
War with Persia.
The Sepoy Mutiny.
Assumption of government of India by the crown.
