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300 B.C. – Maize first grown in Eastern North America. 100 B.C. – A.D. 400 – The Hopewell tradition flourishes. 600 – Emergence of Mississippian culture. 700 – Use of the bow and arrow becomes widespread among peoples of Eastern North America. 1000 – Leif Ericson explores the east coast of North America. [1]
1600: Queen Elizabeth I of England grants a Royal charter to the English East India Company. 1602: Establishment of the Dutch East India Company. 1607: The first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown, Virginia. 1612-1615: The Portuguese captured Gamru Port and a few other places (like Hormuz Island) in southern coast of Persia.
Bernardo Peres da Silva, the only ethnic Indian governor general in Colonial India. The first successful voyage to India was by Vasco da Gama in 1498, when after sailing around the Cape of Good Hope he arrived in Calicut, now in Kerala. Having arrived there, he obtained permission from Saamoothiri Rajah to trade in the city. The navigator was ...
The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was the American extension of the general European conflict known as the Seven Years' War. Previous colonial wars in North America had started in Europe and then spread to the colonies, but the French and Indian War is notable for having started in North America and spread to Europe.
The East India Company monopolized the trade of Bengal. They introduced a land taxation system called the Permanent Settlement which introduced a feudal-like structure (See Zamindar) in the Bengal Presidency. By the 1850s, the East India Company controlled most of the Indian subcontinent, which included present-day Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Indian commercial development is defined as the economic evolution of Native American tribes from hunter-gatherer based societies into fur-trade-based industries. From the early 1500s to the 1800s, intertribal and European relationships evolved in response to the growth of English settlements into the United States.
This is a timeline of Indian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in India and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of India .
Cherokee–American wars (1776–94) Part of the American Revolutionary War United States: Cherokee: Second Cherokee War (1776) Part of the Cherokee–American wars: Northwest Indian War (1785–95) United States Chickasaw Choctaw: Western Confederacy Great Britain. British North America; Treaty of Greenville; British withdrawal