{"slug": "maratha-empire", "label": "Maratha Empire", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maratha_Empire", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83618", "qid": "Q83618", "description": "1674–1818 empire in the Indian subcontinent", "entries": 11, "years": 10, "span": [1666, 1818], "span_label": ["1666 CE", "1818 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "india", "label": "India", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "mughal-empire", "label": "Mughal Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "shivaji", "label": "Shivaji", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "british-east-india-company", "label": "British East India Company", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "east-india-company", "label": "East India Company", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "aurangzeb", "label": "Aurangzeb", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "andhra-pradesh", "label": "Andhra Pradesh", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bay-of-bengal", "label": "Bay of Bengal", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bombay", "label": "Bombay", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1666, "year_label": "1666 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 12", "text": "May 12 – In India, General Shivaji Bhonsale of the Maratha Empire arrives at the Agra Fort for a meeting with Emperor Aurangzeb of the Mughal Empire, as part of the terms of peace under the 1665 Treaty of Purandar. After taking offence at the disrespect shown to him, he gets angry and attempts to leave; he and his son Sambhaji are immediately placed under arrest and imprisoned at the fort.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365988943#April–June", "title": "1666", "revid": 1365988943, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1670, "year_label": "1670 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 3", "text": "October 3 – In India, Chhatrapati Shivaji maharaj, the ruler of the Maratha Empire, leads an attack on the British settlement at Surat near Bombay. British Governor Gerald Aungier secures the British fortress at Surat and saves the lives and property of British citizens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368809725#October–December", "title": "1670", "revid": 1368809725, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1674, "year_label": "1674 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 12", "text": "June 12 – The British East India Company arranges a commercial treaty with the Maratha Empire after Henry Oxenden, the company's deputy governor, meets Emperor Shivaji for his recent coronation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365128656#April–June", "title": "1674", "revid": 1365128656, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1674, "year_label": "1674 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 6", "text": "June 6 – Shivaji Maharaj is crowned as Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj of the Maratha Empire at Raigad Fort in India.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365128656#April–June", "title": "1674", "revid": 1365128656, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1680, "year_label": "1680 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 16", "text": "June 16 – Sambhaji Bhosle and his troops capture Raigad, the capital of the Maratha Empire and Sambhaji becomes the new Chhatrapati or Emperor. Sambhaji deposes his younger brother Rajaram I and places Rajaram and Rajaram's mother under house arrest.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365997201#April–June", "title": "1680", "revid": 1365997201, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1700, "year_label": "1700 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 2", "text": "March 2 – Jankibai, Empress consort of the Maratha Empire as the first wife of Rajaram Chhatrapati (b. 1675)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366570351#Deaths", "title": "1700", "revid": 1366570351, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1728, "year_label": "1728 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 25", "text": "November 25 – In India, the Maratha Empire's army invades the Mughal Empire's Malwa province, crossing the Narmada River. On November 29, the two armies clash at the Battle of Amjhira; the Maratha troops, commanded by General Chimaji Appa, overcome the defenders of Malwa (now part of India's Andhra Pradesh state) and Malwa's Governor Girdhar Bahadur is killed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363462071#October–December", "title": "1728", "revid": 1363462071, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1737, "year_label": "1737 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 24", "text": "December 24 – General Baji Rao I of the Maratha Empire in India defeats the armies of the rulers of Hyderabad, Oudh, Bhopal and Jaipur in the Battle of Bhopal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367176390#October–December", "title": "1737", "revid": 1367176390, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1776, "year_label": "1776 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 1", "text": "March 1 – The Peshwa of the Maratha Empire and the British East India Company sign the Treaty of Purandar in which the British are able to secure Salsette Island and accept Sawai Madhavrao as a new Peshwa. The Marathas agree not to recognise existence of the French in India.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365773863#March–April", "title": "1776", "revid": 1365773863, "section": "Events › March–April"}}, {"year": 1803, "year_label": "1803 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 14", "text": "October 14 – Orissa, an area of India along the Bay of Bengal that comprises the modern-day Indian state of Odisha, is occupied by the British under the British East India Company, after the Second Anglo-Maratha War. The Maratha Empire formally cedes the area in the Treaty of Deogaon, signed on December 17.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373209562#October–December", "title": "1803", "revid": 1373209562, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1818, "year_label": "1818 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 1", "text": "July 1 – After a war that began on November 5, 1817, the forces of the East India Company defeat Baji Rao II in battle and acquire control over the Maratha Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373165947#July–September", "title": "1818", "revid": 1373165947, "section": "Events › July–September"}}]}