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| 1600 |
| | | Britain's East India Company is established when Elizabeth I grants a charter to a 'Company of Merchants trading into the East Indies' | |
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| 1602 |
| | | The Dutch East India Company is founded, with a tax-free monopoly of the eastern trade for twenty-one years | |
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| 1605 |
| | | On the death of Akbar, his son Jahangir succeeds to the Mughal throne | |
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| 1613 |
| | | The British East India establishes a 'factory' (a secure warehouse for the storing of Indian goods) at Surat, on the west coast | |
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| 1615 |
| | | Sir Thomas Roe, the first British ambassador to India, arrives at the court of the Mughal emperor Jahangir | |
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| c. 1615 |
| | | The Mughal school of painting reaches a peak of perfection in the reign of Jahangir | |
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| 1621 |
| | | The Dutch West India Company is chartered to trade and found colonies anywhere along the entire American coast | |
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| 1632 |
| | | Shah Jahan orders that all recently built Hindu temples shall be destroyed, ending the Mughal tradition of religious tolerance | |
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| 1632 |
| | | Shah Jahan begins building the Taj Mahal as a memorial for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal | |
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| 1644 |
| | | The British East India Company completes the construction of Fort St George in Madras | |
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