Editing Bombay by Night (section)

== History, both Kindred and Kine ==
* '''1486:''' The leaders of each of the major European clans sends a representative to a formal meeting in Vienna at the request of a Kindred called <nowiki>''Hardestadt''</nowiki>. Their they would agree to form a group called the <nowiki>''Camarilla''</nowiki>, which would unite to crush the anarch movement forever.

* '''1493, 23rd of October:''' The Anarch leaders gather with Hardestadt and the leaders of the Camarilla in <nowiki>''The Abbey of the Sacred Crown''</nowiki> near the English village of Thorns, in what would later be called the <nowiki>''Convention of Thorns''</nowiki>. All bar the Lasombra and Tzimisce anarchs agree to give up their rebellion, and the Assamites would receive a terrible curse placed on them by the Tremere.

* '''1534, 23rd of December:''' Growing apprehensive of the power of the Mughal Emperor Humayan and having suffered several defeats at the hands of the Portuguese, Sultan Bahadur Shah of the Gujarat Sultanate was obliged to sign <nowiki>''the seven islands of Bombay and Bassein''</nowiki> over to the Portuguese Empire in the Treaty of Bassein. Initially this was a rent agreement but nearly a full year later Sultan Bahadur had lost complete control of the islands, and an Islamic ruler would never again rule the seven islands.

* '''1534 - 1535:''' The Portuguese, who have gone from the dominant traders of the islands to owners of the lands, purchase and acquire the lands from its inhabitants. Many manor-houses, castles, warehouses and churches were built on the acquired lands without thought about the locals feelings on the matter. The Portuguese aggressively attempt to convert everyone to Catholicism, this causes a great deal of friction with the population despite supposedly converting nearly 10,000 people.

* '''1600, 31st of December:''' The British East India Company is founded by Royal Charter from Queen Elizabeth I under the name <nowiki>''Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading with the East Indies''</nowiki>.

* '''1612, November:''' The East India Company, led by Captain Thomas Best, defeat the Portuguese at the Battle of Swally. While this was a minor naval skirmish of small numbers, it greatly impressed the Emperor of the Mughal Empire Jahangir who was much more favourable towards the British from then on. Portuguese harassment of Mecca-bound ships on the West coast of India also help lower the Emperor's opinion of the Portuguese. The Portuguese monopoly of trade on the west coast of India begins to fade.

* '''1612:''' Sir Thomas Roe visits the Mughal Emperor Nuruddin Salim Jahangir to arrange for a commercial treaty that would give the company exclusive rights to reside and establish factories in Surat in exchange for goods and rarities from the European markets. The visit was highly successful.

* '''1617, 12th of October:''' Gustavus Adolphus is crowned King of Sweden. He is known as <nowiki>''the Great''</nowiki> because of his radical military innovations, and he is famous for his very aggressive tactics that emphasised mobility and cavalry initiative. His early form of combined arms warfare is well known and he is even studied to this day.

* '''1633 - 1639:''' Japan begins a system called <nowiki>''Sakoku''</nowiki> in which it severely limits trade from all foreign nations.

* '''1652:''' The British East India Company urges Oliver Cromwell to purchase Bombay from the Portuguese, the growing power of the Dutch Empire is a good incentive, but Oliver Cromwell has other more local concerns.

* '''1657, March:''' The Mughal Empire and the Maratha realm both assault the Bijapur Sultanate, claiming territory from the failing Sultanate. Both Maratha and Mughal soldier also raid each other’s territory causing friction between the two.

* '''1658:''' Aurangzeb with machiavellian cunning, deposes his father and defeats his three brothers to becomes the new Emperor of the Mughal Empire. It is the single largest Empire that the Europeans have to deal with on the sub-continent.

* '''1660, mid-1660:''' Siddi Jauhar, a Bijapurian general, is sent with a sizeable to attack the Maratha territories. With the conspicuous usage of British grenades and English artillerymen to assist him, Siddi takes Panhala from Maratha hands. Shivaji is angered by the British would assisted his enemy and considered this a betrayal.

* '''1660, December:''' Shivaji’s Maratha armies plunder an English trading post/factory in Rajapur and capture the factors (merchants) who are not released until the mid-1663’s.

* '''1661, 11th of May:''' King Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza, the daughter of King John IV of Portugal, places Bombay in possession of the British Empire as part of the dowry.

* '''1661:''' Bombay's population is registered to be 10,000. This figure would mean that the Portuguese have successfully converted the entire population. Any form of travel through Bombay disproves that they are entirely Catholic and many religions co-exist together on the islands.

* '''1662, October:''' Abraham Shipman, the first British Governor arrives at Bombay to take over the city. The Portuguese Governor refuses, citing irregularities in the paperwork, promising only to give over the seven islands and its dependencies. Shipman refuses this deal and is subsequently refused entry to the port. He is forced to retired to the island of Anjediva in North Canara where he dies in October 1664.

* '''1662:''' Surat, which was the prominent port on the west coast of India, starts to lose its position to Bombay.

* '''1664, 5th of January:''' Shivaji leads his Maratha armies in a lightning strike to sack the city of Surat, a wealthy Mughal trading city. The badly defended city is easily overtaken and the plundering continued for six days. Most of the city was burnt to the ground.

* '''1664, November:''' Shipman's successor, Humphrey Cooke, agrees to the Portuguese deal on the condition that the Portuguese citizens are given special treatment and that the British do not interfere in the Catholic's conversion attempts.

* '''1665 - 1666:''' Governor Cooke <nowiki>''acquires''</nowiki> about half of the dependencies from the Portuguese for the British Empire.

* '''1666, and onward:''' Hostilities between the Mathura lord and the Mughal Empire ebb as a peace proposal is kept by both parties, despite Shivaji’s unwillingness to participate in Mughal court life.

* '''1668:''' The British East India Company established a Factory in Bombay.

* '''1668, 21st of September:''' Bombay is transferred to the English East India Company for the annual rent of £10. Sir George Oxenden becomes the first Governor of Bombay.

* '''1668, late November:''' The ship <nowiki>''The Bounties Might''</nowiki> arrives in Bombay and delivers its shadowy passengers...