{"slug": "warren-hastings", "label": "Warren Hastings", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Hastings", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333994", "qid": "Q333994", "description": "Governor-General of Bengal, 1773–1785", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1732, 1818], "span_label": ["1732 CE", "1818 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "india", "label": "India", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "governor-general-of-india", "label": "Governor-General of India", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "bangladesh", "label": "Bangladesh", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "british-east-india-company", "label": "British East India Company", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "calcutta", "label": "Calcutta", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "british-india", "label": "British India", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bengal-presidency", "label": "Bengal Presidency", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "east-india-company", "label": "East India Company", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "maratha-confederacy", "label": "Maratha Confederacy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bombay", "label": "Bombay", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "surat", "label": "Surat", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "house-of-lords", "label": "House of Lords", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1732, "year_label": "1732 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "December 6", "text": "December 6 – Warren Hastings, British administrator (d. 1818)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369314491#Births", "title": "1732", "revid": 1369314491, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1772, "year_label": "1772 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "April 13", "text": "April 13 – Warren Hastings begins his service for the British East India Company as Governor of Bengal, arriving at the company's headquarters at Fort William, outside of Calcutta, and including what are now parts of northeast India and Bangladesh. Hastings serves for two years, then later becomes Governor-General of India.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362979438#April–June", "title": "1772", "revid": 1362979438, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1775, "year_label": "1775 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 6", "text": "March 6 – Raghunathrao, Peshwa of the Maratha Empire in India, signs the Treaty of Surat with the British Governor-General Warren Hastings in Bombay ceding the territories of Salsette and Bassein to the British East India Company along with part of the revenues from Surat and Bharuch districts in return for military assistance. This leads to the First Anglo-Maratha War fought between the British and the Marathas, ending with the Treaty of Salbai in 1782.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365589248#January–June", "title": "1775", "revid": 1365589248, "section": "Events › January–June"}}, {"year": 1785, "year_label": "1785 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 9", "text": "February 9 – Sir Warren Hastings, who has been governing India on behalf of King George III as the Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William (later British India), resigns. Sir John Macpherson administers British India until General Charles Cornwallis arrives 19 months later.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370566385#January–March", "title": "1785", "revid": 1370566385, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1795, "year_label": "1795 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 23", "text": "April 23 – Former Governor-General of India Warren Hastings is acquitted by the British House of Lords of misconduct.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352627752#January–June", "title": "1795", "revid": 1352627752, "section": "Events › January–June"}}, {"year": 1818, "year_label": "1818 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 22", "text": "August 22 – Warren Hastings, English Governor-General of India (b. 1732)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373165947#July–December", "title": "1818", "revid": 1373165947, "section": "Deaths › July–December"}}]}