english merchants formed the east india company on 31 december 1600.
english merchants formed the east india company on 31 december 1600.
when did english merchants form the east india company?
31 december 1600
on 31 december 1600, queen elizabeth i of england (1533–1603) granted a group of english merchants a charter to establish a joint-stock company which became known as the east india company. subsequently, during the reign of king james i (1567–1625), sir william hawkins and sir thomas roe were sent to negotiate with the mughal emperor jahangir (1569–1627) to permit the establishment of trading factories in india on behalf of the company. the first of these were built at surat on the west coast and at masulipatam on the country's eastern seaboard. masulipatam is thus the oldest english trading post on india's east coast, dating back to 1611. in 1625, another factory was established at armagon, a few miles to the south, whereupon both the factories came under the supervision of an agency based at machilipatam. the english authorities decided to relocate these factories further south, due to a shortage of cotton cloth, the main trade item of the east coast at the time. the problem was compounded when the sultan of golconda started harassing the local officers. the east india company's administrator francis day (1605–73) was sent south, and after negotiations with the raja of chandragiri he obtained a land grant to set up a factory in the village of madraspatnam, where the new fort st george was built. an agency was created to govern the new settlement, and the factor andrew cogan of masulipatnam was appointed as its first agent. all the agencies along india's east coast were subordinated to the east india company presidency of bantam in java. by 1641, fort st george became the company's headquarters on the coromandel coast.
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the east india company, also known as the english east india company, the british east india company, and the honourable east india company was an english company founded in 1600









































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east india company (disambiguation)