European Arrival & Colonial Expansion — Landmark Events

Landmark Events

Treaty of Tordesillas

1494

This treaty, brokered by the Pope, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and Spain along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands. While…

Royal Charter of the English East India Company

1600

Granted by Queen Elizabeth I, this charter established the 'Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies' and conferred upon it a 15-year monopoly on…

Treaty of Allahabad

1765

Signed after the Battle of Buxar, this treaty was a landmark legal and political document that formally established the English East India Company as a territorial power in India.…