Founded August 24, 1690 by Job Charnock of the East India Company, and commonly called `` The City of Palaces '', it seemed a vast and elegant place to Ann Hasseltine Judson.

The first act of Adoniram and Samuel on reaching Calcutta was to report at the police station, a necessity when landing in East India Company territory.

All Captain Gibault took back to Salem were a few items for the town's East India Museum.

In 1609, the Dutch East India Company hired Hudson, gave him two learned geographers, fitted him out with a ship called the Half Moon, and supplied him with Dutch sailors.

The zero was probably introduced to the Chinese in the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 AD ) when travel in the Indian Ocean and the Middle East would have provided direct contact with India, allowing them to acquire the concept of zero and the decimal point from Indian merchants and mathematicians.

There were four kinds of allegiances ( Rittson v Stordy ( 1855 ) 3 Sm & G 230 ; De Geer v Stone ( 1882 ) 22 Ch D 243 ; Isaacson v Durant ( 1886 ) 54 LT 684 ; Gibson, Gavin v Gibson 3 KB 379 ; Joyce v DPP AC 347 ; Collingwood v Pace ( 1661 ) O Bridg 410 ; Lane v Bennett ( 1836 ) 1 M & W 70 ; Lyons Corp v East India Co ( 1836 ) 1 Moo PCC 175 ; Birtwhistle v Vardill ( 1840 ) 7 Cl & Fin 895 ; R v Lopez, R v Sattler ( 1858 ) Dears & B 525 ; Ex p Brown ( 1864 ) 5 B & S 280 );

In general, the alphabets of the Mediterranean region ( Anatolia, Greece, Italy ) are classified as Phoenician-derived, adapted from around the 8th century BCE, while those of the East ( the Levant, Persia, Central Asia and India ) are considered Aramaic-derived, adapted from around the 6th century BCE from the Imperial Aramaic script of the Achaemenid Empire.

* 1639 – Madras ( now Chennai ), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.

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* 1690 – Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city ( in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city has no birthday ).

Ambergris can be found in the Atlantic Ocean and on the coasts of Brazil, Madagascar, the East Indies, The Maldives, China, Japan, India, Australia, New Zealand, and the Molucca islands.

It is generally dated to the early 19th century, when soldiers from Athy, County Kildare served the British East India Company.

* Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies.

Phillip's plan was for a squadron of three ships of the line and a frigate to mount a raid on Buenos Aires and Monte Video, then to proceed to the coasts of Chile, Peru and Mexico to maraud, and ultimately to cross the Pacific to join the British Navy's East India squadron for an attack on Manila.

This is the location from where Salīm, as the Emperor Jahāngīr read out the firman permitting the British East India Company to trade with India.

Unlike these states, which were ruled by local nobles who acknowledged British suzerainty, Ajmer-Merwara was administered directly by the British, until 1858 by the East India Company and after 1858 by a chief commissioner who was subordinate to the Governor-General of India's agent for the Rajputana Agency.

Thereafter Ajmer-Merwara was administered directly by the British East India Company.

In the year 1789, Tipu Sultan ruler of the Sultanate of Mysore sent an embassy to the Ottoman capitol of Istanbul, to Sultan Abdul Hamid I requesting urgent assistance against the British East India Company and had proposed an offensive and defensive consortium ; Sultan Abdul Hamid I, informed the ambassadors of the Sultanate of Mysore that the Ottoman Empire was still recuperating from the Austro-Ottoman War and the Russo-Turkish Wars.

The East India Company and its Governor-General were replaced by a viceroy and the Indian Council, while at Westminster the Board of Control was abolished and its functions assumed by the newly created India Office, under the Secretary of State for India.

Duval travelled across the Middle East overland via Aleppo and took a ship from Basra to Bombay, acquainting Governor-General of India Viscount Wellesley with the situation in Egypt.

The Honourable East India Company presented Nelson with £ 10, 000 (£ as of ) in recognition of the benefit his action had on their holdings and similar awards were made by the cities of London, Liverpool and other municipal and corporate bodies.

A reporter who consulted a Middle East Information officer for routine vital statistics got nowhere until the State Department man produced from his bottom desk drawer a brochure published by the Arabian-American Oil Company.

Among the economic development institutions established in East Africa were companies such as the Diamond Jubilee Investment Trust ( now Diamond Trust of Kenya ) and the Jubilee Insurance Company, which are quoted on the Nairobi Stock Exchange and have become major players in national development.

In addition to battling the armies of other European Empires ( and of its former colonies, the United States, in the American War of 1812 ), in the battle for global supremacy, the British Army fought the Chinese in the First and Second Opium Wars, and the Boxer Rebellion, Māori tribes in the first of the New Zealand Wars, Nawab Shiraj-ud-Daula's forces and British East India Company mutineers in the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the Boers in the First and Second Boer Wars, Irish Fenians in Canada during the Fenian raids and Irish separatists in the Anglo-Irish War.

The Trekboers, as they were originally known, were mainly of Dutch origin and included Calvinists, such as Flemish and Frisian Calvinists, as well as French Huguenot and German and British protestants who first arrived in the Cape of Good Hope during the period of its administration ( 1652 – 1795 ) by the Dutch East India Company ( Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC ).

The Boer quest for independence manifested in a tradition of declaring republics, which predates the arrival of the British ; when the British arrived, Boer republics had already been declared and were in rebellion from the VOC ( Dutch East India Company ).

Thus the competitors united to form the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie ( VOC ) ( the ‘ Dutch East Indies Company ).

Fort Belgica, one of many forts built by the Dutch East India Company, is one of the largest remaining European forts in Indonesia.

* Dutch East India Company in Indonesia

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After the failed rebellion against the British in 1857, the British Parliament took over the reign of India from the British East India Company, and British India came under the direct rule of the Crown.

The University was founded in 1829 following a donation by William Chalmers ( 1748 – 1811 ), a director of the Swedish East India Company, whose ships sailed across the world to supply Europe with goods from the East.

In the East, the principle set forth in the Code of Justinian still applies, whereby most abbots are immediately subject to the local bishop.

* Southernmost point-unnamed headland at the confluence on the Sangha River and the Ngoko River immediately north of the Congolese town of Ouesso, East region

When it became obvious that a military action in East Pakistan was inevitable, Admiral Ahsan resigned from his position as Martial Law Administrator in protest, and immediately flew back to Karachi, West Pakistan.

Hertfordshire is located immediately to the north of Greater London and is part of the East of England Government Office Region.

The Colts immediately went on a rampage in the new league, as new head coach Don McCafferty led the 1970 team to an 11 – 2 – 1 regular season record, winning the AFC East title.

A revolt in the East led by Avidius Cassius failed to gain momentum and was suppressed immediately.

In the East, Chrismation is performed by the priest ( using oil specially consecrated by a bishop ) immediately after Baptism, and Unction is normally performed by several priests ( ideally seven ), but may be performed by one if necessary.

** Cold War: Günter Schabowski accidentally states in live broadcast press conference that new rules for traveling from East Germany to West Germany will be put in effect " immediately ".

He immediately begins selling castles, lordships, privileges, and towns to fund his long-anticipated crusade against the Middle East.

From December 1944 until his death two years later, Baird lived at a house in Station Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, immediately north of the station itself.

Upon entering office in June 1970, Heath immediately set about trying to reverse Wilson's policy of ending Britain's military presence East of Suez.

Lazarus tells of his visit as an interplanetary cargo trader to a planet with a culture like that of the medieval Middle East ( reminiscent of Citizen of the Galaxy ), whereon he bought a pair of slaves, brother and sister, and immediately manumitted them.

The new Federal States immediately became parts of the Federal Republic of Germany, so that it was enlarged to include the whole territory of the former East Germany and Berlin.

A new character was immediately introduced: Boromir, a messenger at the Council of Elrond and son of the " King of Ond ", whose realm is " besieged by wild men out of the East ".

The vast lands of the East were collectively referred to as Rhûn, though this may have only referred to those immediately east of the Sea of Rhûn and River Running.

The city is also served by two other secondary rail stations, the Little Station ( Gara Micǎ ), which is technically part of and situated immediately near the main station, and Cluj-Napoca East ( Est ).

Starting in 1906, the Missouri Pacific Railroad operated the George H. Walker, a rail ferry, called a " transfer boat ", from Anchorage ( immediately north of the Sunrise Community ) in West Baton Rouge Parish across the Mississippi River to Baton Rouge in East Baton Rouge Parish.

The Tigers became a winning club almost immediately, finishing above. 500 in each of Sparky's first three full seasons, but did not get into contention until, when they won 92 games and finished second to the Baltimore Orioles in the American League East.

It is on U. S. Highway 167, about two miles north of Jonesboro, the parish seat, and immediately adjacent to two other small villages: North Hodge and East Hodge.

If South cashes his two clubs immediately, it is North who is squeezed, East simply discards in the same suit than North.

Hightstown is also immediately adjacent to Exit 8 of the New Jersey Turnpike ( Interstate 95 ) in East Windsor.

The Village of East Syracuse is located immediately east of Syracuse, in the Town of Dewitt.

East Ithaca is immediately south of the main campus of Cornell University.

Most of the area is immediately north or south of U. S. Route 26, though a spur south into parts of Welches and a spur north along East Lolo Pass Road is also included.