Bombay came to England as a dowry.

1661 · 1662 · apart: 1 year

The Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza married Charles II in 1662, bringing Bombay and Tangier — and she made tea fashionable at court.

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• East India Company founded1600 · London. On 31 December 1600 Elizabeth I granted London merchants a monopoly on trade with Asia. The East India Company began with pepper and textiles and by the mid-19th century ruled most of India with its own army. After the Indian Rebellion of 1857 its territories passed to the British Crown.

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