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The Portuguese, first arriving by ship in May 1498, began establishing trading outposts in India. Bernardo Peres da Silva, the only ethnic Indian governor general in Colonial India. The first successful voyage to India was by Vasco da Gama in 1498, when after sailing around the Cape of Good Hope he arrived in Calicut, now in Kerala.
Kingdom of Cochin is taken over by the Portuguese creating the first European settlement in India. 1505: Portuguese India is established, and would last until 1961. 1508: 3 February: The Christian-Islamic power struggle in Europe and the Middle East. Spills over into the Indian Ocean as Battle of Chaul during the Portuguese-Mamluk War: 1509: 3 ...
March – August – First siege of Cochin (1503) Kingdom of Kochi is taken over by the Portuguese creating the first European settlement in India; Unniraman Koyikal I reign as King of Cochin ends; Unniraman Koyikal II reign as King of Cochin begins
The second most important settlement of Portuguese merchants in India was Cochin, where 500 casados with their families resided. [83] Diu had a casado population of about 200. [84] Portuguese India Company was established in 1628, however with the Crown being its only major shareholder, it was liquidated five years later. [85]
The written history of the Cape Colony in what is now South Africa began when Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias became the first modern European to round the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. [1] In 1497, Vasco da Gama sailed along the whole coast of South Africa on his way to India, landed at St Helena Bay for 8 days, and made a detailed ...
Layers dating from between 250,000 and 140,000 years ago in the same cave contained tools of the Levallois type which could put the date of the first migration even earlier if the tools can be associated with the modern human jawbone finds. [6] [7] [8] Africa, Southern Africa: South Africa: 200–110: Klasies River Caves, population genetics
The fractured debilitated kingdoms of India were gradually taken over by the Europeans and indirectly controlled by puppet rulers. In 1600, Queen Elizabeth I accorded a charter, forming the East India Company to trade with India and eastern Asia. The British landed in India in Surat in 1624. By the 19th century, they had assumed direct and ...
Traders of the United East India Company (VOC), under the command of Jan van Riebeeck, were the first people to establish a European colony in South Africa. The Cape settlement was built by them in 1652 as a re-supply point and way-station for United East India Company vessels on their way back and forth between the Netherlands and Batavia ...