HistoryWorld Timeline
Search for events relating to: Year:
 
For exact match use "quotation marks"
     
 
Go 
 
Google by default Text search   Google by default Related images   Narrative or article HistoryWorld   Place or object Link   See in Google maps Map
Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms.
     
1603
 
Narrative history in HistoryWorld     
The warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu is awarded the title of shogun, beginning nearly three centuries of the Tokugawa shogunate       
1605
 
Narrative history in HistoryWorld     
On the death of Akbar, his son Jahangir succeeds to the Mughal throne       
1613
 
Narrative history in HistoryWorld     
The British East India establishes a 'factory' (a secure warehouse for the storing of Indian goods) at Surat, on the west coast       
1614
 
Narrative history in HistoryWorld     
An edict is passed expelling Jesuit missionaries from Japan, and ordering their converts to revert to Buddhism       
1615
 
Narrative history in HistoryWorld      
Sir Thomas Roe, the first British ambassador to India, arrives at the court of the Mughal emperor Jahangir        
c. 1615
 
Narrative history in HistoryWorld     
The Mughal school of painting reaches a peak of perfection in the reign of Jahangir       
1619
 
Narrative history in HistoryWorld    
Jan Pieterszoon Coen destroys the town of Jakarta, on the coast of Java, and rebuilds it as a Dutch trading centre under the name Batavia      
1624
 
Narrative history in HistoryWorld   
The Japanese are forbidden to leave their country, or foreigners to enter, at the start of more than two centuries of almost total isolation     
c. 1625
 
Narrative history in HistoryWorld     
The Dutch gradually exclude the Portuguese from the immensely lucrative trade in cloves from the Spice Islands (or Moluccas)       
1632
 
Narrative history in HistoryWorld    
Shah Jahan orders that all recently built Hindu temples shall be destroyed, ending the Mughal tradition of religious tolerance