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The capture of constantinople by
• Ottoman turks
  The capture of constantinople in
• 1453
  Vasco da gama landed in Kozhikode(kerala)in
• 1498
  Vasco da gama made a second visit in
• 1502
  The Portuguese built the Pulicat fort in
  1502
  The first Governor of Portuguese in India was
• Francisco Almeida.(1505–09)
  second governor of Portuguese India
• Afonso de Albuquerque
  Portuguese capital in India shifted from Cochin to Goa in
• 1530
  Portuguese lost Hugly in 1631 during the reign of
• Shahjahan.
  The Governor of Portuguese India signed the Instrument of Surrender on
• 19 December 1961
  The Dutch East India Company was a chartered company established in
• 1602
  Nagapattinam become head-quarters of Dutch East India Company in
• 1689
  Afonso de Albuquerque occupied Goa in
• 1510
  Atlast portuguese retained only
• Goa,Daman&Diu
  The English East India Company was formed in
• 1600
  Captain William Hawkins stayed in Jahangir’s court from
• 1609-1611
  In 1616, The English East India Company established its first factory in the south in
• Masulipatnam
  They built Fort St. George in Madras in
• 1640
  Aurangzeb gave the Company the Farman in 1667 to trade in
• Bengal
  The Danish East India Company was formed in
• 1616.

They established settlements at
• Serampur (Bengal) and Tranquebar(1620,Tamil Nadu).
  The banes sold their settlements to the English in
• 1845 
  
  
  The French East India Company was set in

• 1664
  Puducherry Become Head Quarters of The French East India Company in
• 1701
  They established their first factory at Surat in
• 1668

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