⚔ Battle · ★ Major · 📅 23 June 1757

Battle of Plassey

1757 – present · 📍 Palashi

Clive defeats Siraj ud-Daulah; Company rule begins in Bengal.

What it led to: Siraj ud-Daulah was defeated and Mir Jafar became a Company-backed nawab.

British East India Company

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Where it happened.

Meanwhile (within 10 years)

  1. 1747 Ahmad Shah Durrani founds the Durrani Empire · Durrani Empire
  2. 1749 ⚔ Battle of Ambur · Carnatic (Nawabs of Arcot)
  3. 1751 ⚔ Siege of Arcot · Carnatic (Nawabs of Arcot)
  4. 1760 ⚔ Battle of Wandiwash · British East India Company
  5. 1761 ⚔ Third Battle of Panipat · Maratha Empire
  6. 1764 ⚔ Battle of Buxar · British East India Company
  7. 1765 Diwani of Bengal granted · British East India Company
  8. 1767 ⚔ First Anglo-Mysore War · Kingdom of Mysore

Alive at the time

Velu Nachiyar
1730 – 1796
Queen of Sivaganga who fought the East India Company
Nana Fadnavis
1742 – 1800
Peshwa minister called the 'Maratha Machiavelli'
Sir William Jones
1746 – 1794
Founder of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
Pazhassi Raja
1753 – 1805
Kerala ruler who fought the Company in the Cotiote War

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