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1857 led to the direct control of the territories previously captured by the EIC by the British crown.
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1498 when Vasco da gama of Portugal reached the port of Calicut on the southwestern coast of India
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1600, Queen Anne 1 granted a royal charter to some London merchants to have sole ownership of trade with the East Indies
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1611, the British East India Company established its first factory post in Masulipatnam on the Andhra Coast of the Bay of Bengal.
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- The act granted by King Charles II gave the EIC the power to colonize territories
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1750, the area we call India today made up 25% of the world’s industrial production.
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- Bengal was one of the wealthiest regions in India.
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1858, the Government of India Act transferred full governing authority from the EIC to the British government.
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1876, Queen Victoria of the British Empire was named empress of India.
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1930 which was a nonviolent show of civil disobedience led by Gandhi.