British East India Company chartered
1600 · Event
Royal charter grants English merchants a monopoly on East Indies trade.
On these timelines: Master, United Kingdom (combined), India, England, Economic History
Around 1600
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Edo period (1603)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)