European Advent

Question 1

Fall of Constantinople

Answer 1

1453

Question 2

Pope Nicholas gave Prince Henry a bull to explore orients

Answer 2

1454

Question 3

Bartholomew Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope

Answer 3

1487

Question 4

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 4

1494

Question 5

Division of non-Christian would between Spain and Portugal

Answer 5

1497

Question 6

Vasco Da Gamma landed in

Answer 6

Calicut in 1498

Question 7

Pedro Alvarez Cabral arrived India

Answer 7

1500

Question 8

Vasco Da Gamma’s second journey to India

Answer 8

1501

Question 9

First Portuguese fort

Answer 9

Cochin in 1503

Question 10

Second Portuguese fort

Answer 10

Cannanore in 1505

Question 11

First Portuguese governor

Answer 11

Fracisco De Almeida 1505-09

Question 12

Battle of Chaul

Answer 12

1508
Gujarat + Egypt defeated Almeida

Question 13

Almeida defeated Gujarat and Egyptian navies

Answer 13

1509

Question 14

Second Portuguese governor

Answer 14

Alfonso de Albuquerque 1509-15

Question 15

Portuguese captured Goa

Answer 15

1510
From Sultan of Bijapur

Question 16

Portuguese captured Bhatkal

Answer 16

1510
From Krishna Deva Rai of Vijaynagara Empire

Question 17

Mahmud Begarha ruled Gujarat

Answer 17

1458-1511

Question 18

Nino de Cunha governor

Answer 18

1529-38

Question 19

Portuguese headquarters shifted to Goa

Answer 19

1530
From Cochin

Question 20

Portuguese captured Bassein, Salsette

Answer 20

1534
Ceded by Bahadur Shah of Gujarat

Question 21

Portuguese capture Diu

Answer 21

1535
From Bahadur Shah of Gujarat

Question 22

Portuguese killed Bahadur Shah

Answer 22

1537

Question 23

Portuguese captured Daman

Answer 23

1559

Question 24

Portuguese settle Hooghly under Imperial farman

Answer 24

1579

Question 25

Drake’s voyage around the world

Answer 25

1580

Question 26

Union of Spain and Portugal

Answer 26

1580-81

Question 27

English victory over Spanish Armada

Answer 27

1588

Question 28

Cornelis de Houtman first Dutchman to reach Sumatra and Bantam, Dutch ousted Portuguese from SE Asia

Answer 28

1596

Question 29

Formation of Merchant Adventurers

Answer 29

1599

Question 30

Queen Elizabeth I issued charter to English EIC

Answer 30

31.12.1600 Monopoly for 15 years initially

Question 31

Formation of EIC of Netherlands

Answer 31

1602

Question 32

First Dutch factory

Answer 32

1605 Masulipatnam

Question 33

William Hawkins reached Surat

Answer 33

1608 Ship Hector

Question 34

Monopoly of English EIC extended indefinitely

Answer 34

1609

Question 35

Second Dutch factory

Answer 35

1610 Pulicat

Question 36

English started trading in Masulipatnam and Surat

Answer 36

1611

Question 37

Battle of Swally

Answer 37

1612 Cap Best defeated Potuguese fleet Ship Dragon and Osiander

Question 38

First English factory

Answer 38

1613 Surat

Question 39

Dutch factory at Surat

Answer 39

1616

Question 40

Danish EIC established

Answer 40

1616

Question 41

English factory at Masulipatnam

Answer 41

1616 First in South

Question 42

Thomas Roe ambassador of Britain

Answer 42

1615-19 Free trade, exemptions from inland tolls Factories at Agra, Ahmedabad, Broach

Question 43

First Danish factory

Answer 43

1620 Tranquebar near Tanjore

Question 44

Portuguese lost Hooghly

Answer 44

1632 Mughal governor of Bengal Qasim Khan

Question 45

Golden Farman

Answer 45

1632 To English EIC By sultan of Golconda

Question 46

English factories at Hariharpur (Mahanadi delta), Balasore (Odisha)

Answer 46

1633 First in East India

Question 47

Courteen Association aka Assada Company formed

Answer 47

1635 Rival of English EIC Merged in 1657

Question 48

Fortified english factory in Madras

Answer 48

1639 Lease from local ruler St.George Later replaced Masulipatnam as headquarters of English EIC in South