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Two great cities, Osaka and Sakaii, have been burned to the ground, each one almost as big as London, and not one house left standing, and it is reported above 300,000 men have lost their lives, “yet the old Emperor Ogusho Same hath prevailed and Fidaia Same either been slain or fled secretly away, that no news is to be heard of him.” Jesuits, priests, and friars are banished by the emperor and their churches and monasteries pulled down; they put the fault on the arrival of the English; it is said if Fidaia Same had prevailed against the emperor, he promised them entrance again, when without doubt all the English would have been driven out of Japan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366307823#January–February", "title": "1616", "revid": 1366307823, "section": "Events › January–February"}}, {"year": 1616, "year_label": "1616 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 22", "text": "December 22 – An Indian youth (called one of \"the first fruits of India\") is baptized with the name \"Peter\" in London at the St. Dionis Backchurch, in a ceremony attended by the Lord Mayor, the Privy Council, city aldermen, and officials of the Honourable East India Company. 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Keigwin surrenders the office less than a year later.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366000368#October–December", "title": "1683", "revid": 1366000368, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1684, "year_label": "1684 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The British East India Company receives Chinese permission to build a trading station at Canton. Tea sells in Europe for less than a shilling a pound, but the import duty of 5 shillings makes it too expensive for most English people to afford; hence smuggled tea is drunk much more than legally imported tea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366005630#Date_unknown", "title": "1684", "revid": 1366005630, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1684, "year_label": "1684 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "The East India Company receives Chinese permission to build a trading station at Canton.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737588#Undated", "title": "1684 in England", "revid": 1353737588, "section": "Events › Undated"}}, {"year": 1684, "year_label": "1684 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 19", "text": "November 19 – Richard Keigwin, who had arrested the East India Company's Governor of Bombay in 1683, Josiah Child and had taken over as the unauthorized administrator of Bombay, turns control back to the company and its envoy, Sir Thomas Grantham, receiving a general pardon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366005630#October–December", "title": "1684", "revid": 1366005630, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1685, "year_label": "1685 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 6", "text": "January 6 – American-born British citizen Elihu Yale, for whom Yale University in the U.S. is named, completes his term as the first leader of the Madras Presidency in India, administering the colony on behalf of the East India Company, and is succeeded by William Gyfford.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369485499#January–March", "title": "1685", "revid": 1369485499, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1686, "year_label": "1686 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 3", "text": "January 3 – In Madras (now Chennai) in India, local residents employed by the East India Company threaten to boycott their jobs after corporate administrator William Gyfford imposes a house tax on residences within the city walls. Gyfford places security forces at all entrances to the city and threatens to banish anyone who fails to pay their taxes, as well as to confiscate the goods of merchants who refuse to make sales. A compromise is reached the next day on the amount of the taxes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368502958#January–March", "title": "1686", "revid": 1368502958, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1686, "year_label": "1686 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 4", "text": "August 4 – Portuguese soldiers hired by the East India Company mutiny rather than follow orders to join the war in Bengal. 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In 1998, 1,400 coins from the wreck site are offered for sale, and in 2002 a portion is given to the South African government. Around twenty survivors of the wreck are eventually able to make safety after an open boat voyage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360194188#July–September", "title": "1755", "revid": 1360194188, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1756, "year_label": "1756 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 14", "text": "February 14 – Battle of Vijaydurg: The Maratha Navy, that has controlled the western coast of India for the Maratha Empire for more than a century, is destroyed by British attackers fighting for the East India Company. On orders of Royal Navy Admiral Charles Watson, the British capture a Maratha ship (the former British warship HMS Restoration), set it on fire, and then float the burning vessel into the Vijaydurg Port where most of Maratha Admiral Tulaji Angre's ships are anchored. The fire soon spreads to the other ships, destroying one large warship armed with 74 cannons, eight gurabs of 200 tonnes apiece, and sixty galbat ships.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349937992#January–March", "title": "1756", "revid": 1349937992, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1757, "year_label": "1757 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 2", "text": "January 2 – Seven Years' War: The British East India Company Army, under the command of Robert Clive, captures Calcutta, India.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370632620#January–March", "title": "1757", "revid": 1370632620, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1757, "year_label": "1757 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 2", "text": "2 January – Seven Years' War: The British East India Company Army, under the command of Robert Clive, captures Calcutta in India.", "cite": {"url": 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The resultant panic causes failure of other banks, particularly in Scotland, and especially in Edinburgh and the Ayr Bank.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362254169#Events", "title": "1772 in Scotland", "revid": 1362254169, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1772, "year_label": "1772 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "June 10", "text": "10 June – credit crisis of 1772 is triggered when, following the flight of their partner Alexander Fordyce to France, the London banking house of Neal, James, Fordyce and Down (which has been speculating in East India Company stock) suspends payment. The resultant panic causes other banks, particularly in Scotland, to fail, extends to Amsterdam and the Thirteen Colonies of British North America, and threatens the East India Company with bankruptcy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1275835037#Events", "title": "1772 in Great Britain", "revid": 1275835037, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1773, "year_label": "1773 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 27", "text": "April 27 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act (coming into force on May 10), designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365114710#April–June", "title": "1773", "revid": 1365114710, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1773, "year_label": "1773 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 27", "text": "27 April – Parliament passes the Tea Act 1773 (13 Geo. 3. c. 44), designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347146307#Events", "title": "1773 in Great Britain", "revid": 1347146307, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1773, "year_label": "1773 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December 16", "text": "December 16 – Boston Tea Party: A group of American colonists, dressed as Mohawk Indians, steal aboard ships of the East India Company and dump their cargo of tea into Boston Harbor, in protest against British tax policies.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365114710#October–December", "title": "1773", "revid": 1365114710, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1773, "year_label": "1773 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December 16", "text": "16 December – a group of American colonists, dressed as Mohawk Indians, steal aboard ships of the East India Company and dump their cargo of tea into Boston Harbor in a protest against British tax policies that became known as the Boston Tea Party.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347146307#Events", "title": "1773 in Great Britain", "revid": 1347146307, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1775, "year_label": "1775 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "February 26", "text": "February 26 – The British East India Company factory on Balambangan Island is destroyed by Moro pirates.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365589248#January–June", "title": "1775", "revid": 1365589248, "section": "Events › January–June"}}, {"year": 1775, "year_label": "1775 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 6", "text": "March 6 – Raghunathrao, Peshwa of the Maratha Empire in India, signs the Treaty of Surat with the British Governor-General Warren Hastings in Bombay ceding the territories of Salsette and Bassein to the British East India Company along with part of the revenues from Surat and Bharuch districts in return for military assistance. This leads to the First Anglo-Maratha War fought between the British and the Marathas, ending with the Treaty of Salbai in 1782.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365589248#January–June", "title": "1775", "revid": 1365589248, "section": "Events › January–June"}}, {"year": 1776, "year_label": "1776 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 1", "text": "March 1 – The Peshwa of the Maratha Empire and the British East India Company sign the Treaty of Purandar in which the British are able to secure Salsette Island and accept Sawai Madhavrao as a new Peshwa. The Marathas agree not to recognise existence of the French in India.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365773863#March–April", "title": "1776", "revid": 1365773863, "section": "Events › March–April"}}, {"year": 1782, "year_label": "1782 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 16", "text": "December 16 – East India Company: Hada and Mada Miah lead a rebellion in the Indian subcontinent against East India Company officer Robert Lindsay and his troops in Sylhet Shahi Eidgah.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370562345#October–December", "title": "1782", "revid": 1370562345, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1783, "year_label": "1783 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 9", "text": "April 9–28 – Second Anglo-Mysore War: Siege of Bednore – Tipu Sultan of Mysore with 100,000 troops besieges 1600 British East India Company troops who are obliged to surrender with honours of war.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370056030#April–June", "title": "1783", "revid": 1370056030, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1783, "year_label": "1783 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 10", "text": "August 10 – The British East India Company packet ship Antelope (1781) is wrecked off Ulong Island in the Palau (Pelew) group, resulting in the first sustained European contact with those islands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370056030#July–September", "title": "1783", "revid": 1370056030, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1784, "year_label": "1784 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 11", "text": "11 March - Treaty of Mangalore signed between a jubilant Tipu Sultan and East India Company bringing a closure to Second Anglo-Mysore War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1246599621#Events", "title": "1784 in India", "revid": 1246599621, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1784, "year_label": "1784 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 13", "text": "August 13 – Parliament of Great Britain passes Pitt's India Act (An Act for the better Regulation and Management of the Affairs of the East India Company and of the British Possessions in India). It requires the governor-general to be chosen from outside the Company and makes company directors subject to parliamentary supervision.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370567291#July–September", "title": "1784", "revid": 1370567291, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1786, "year_label": "1786 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 11", "text": "August 11 – Captain Francis Light acquires the island of Penang from the Sultan of Kedah on behalf of the British East India Company, renaming it Prince of Wales Island in honour of the heir to the British throne, and establishing the settlement of George Town. 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