DiplomacyEast India Company rule
Denmark sells Tranquebar to the British
Denmark sold its settlement of Tranquebar (Tharangambadi) to the East India Company, ending Danish rule on the Tamil coast.
Tranquebar, now Tharangambadi, had been a Danish trading post since 1620 under a grant from the Nayak of Thanjavur. It was occupied by the British in 1808 during the Napoleonic Wars but restored to Denmark after the Treaty of Kiel in 1814. In 1845 Denmark sold Tranquebar and its other continental Indian settlements to the British East India Company. The town lost its special trading status and its administrative role passed to Nagapattinam, though it remained a centre of Lutheran mission work.
