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== Timeline ==
== Timeline ==
'''1600, 31st Dec:''' The Company is founded and receives the royal charter from Queen [[Elizabeth I]]. It was to be the ''The Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies.''
'''1600, 31st Dec:''' The Company is founded and receives the royal charter from Queen [[Elizabeth I]]. It was to be the ''The Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies.'' [[Akbar]] is the emperor in India.

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British East India Company


Created
1600


Timeline

1600, 31st Dec: The Company is founded and receives the royal charter from Queen Elizabeth I. It was to be the The Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies. Akbar is the emperor in India.