| | | against France, Austria, | | | | Clive conquers Bengal; | and Russia. Achievements | | | | beginning of British | of Frederick. Overthrow of| | | | territorial power in | France at sea, and in | | | | India, 1757. | Canada and India. | | |1760 +--------------------------+-----------------------------+1760 | | | British dominion receives| Treaties of Paris and | | | | Mogul’s sanction. | Hubertsburg exclude France| | | | | from America and India, | | | | | and confirm the position | | | | | of Prussia. | | | | Haidar Ali in Mysore. | Partition of Poland. | | | | Governor-Generalship of | GREAT BRITAIN: Quarrel | | | | Warren Hastings | with Colonies; leading to | | | | (1774-85), establishes | War of American | | | | the British power. | Independence, 1775-83. | | |1780 +--------------------------+-----------------------------+1780 | | | Dual control in India by | British recovery of naval | | | | East India Company and | predominance. | | | | Parliamentary Board of | UNITED STATES: Independence | | | | Control set up by | established 1783. | | | | Pitt’s India Act. | FRANCE: French Revolution, | | | | | 1789. | | | | Administration of British| War between European | | | | India systematised. | Coalitions and French | | | | | Republic, 1792-1802. Rise | | | | | of Bonaparte. Triumphs of | | | | | French Army and British | | | | Overthrow of Mysore, and | Navy. | | | | and institution of | GREAT BRITAIN: Legislative | | | | subsidiary alliances by| Union with Ireland. | | | | Lord Wellesley. | Kant and Goethe. | | |1800 +--------------------------+-----------------------------+1800 | | | Overthrow of Mahratta | War renewed (1803) between | | | | power by Lord Hastings | European Coalitions and | | | | (1819): extensive | Emperor Napoleon (1804). | | | | annexations. | Trafalgar and Austerlitz, | | | | Acquisition of Cape | 1805. Peninsula War, | | | | Colony from Holland by | 1808-13. Moscow Campaign, | | | | Great Britain. | 1812. Waterloo Campaign, | | | | Gradual planting of | 1815. | |