Coming of the Europeans (1498 to 1700)
- Portuguese arrival goa
- Portuguese diu bhatkal
- Francis Xavier: Jesuit co-founder, died at Sancian (1552), body at Bom Jesus Goa, annual feast on 3 December
- Portuguese introductions
- Dutch english factories
- French danes
- Portuguese decline: imperial diversion, religious policy, European rivals and Maratha expansion