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Bengal

historical and geographical region in the east region of the Indian subcontinent

19 dated entries naming Bengal, drawn from 19 separate years between 606 CE and 1971 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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7th century

  • 606Shashanka is the first recorded independent king of Bengal. He establishes his capital in modern-day Murshidabad (approximate date).source

8th century

  • 775King Dharmapala begins his reign of Bengal (South Asia).source

11th century

  • 1021Emperor Rajendra Chola I extends his influence of the Chola Empire to the banks of the Ganges River (North India) and invades Bengal.source

13th century

  • 1225Iltutmish, Ghurid ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, repels a Mongol attack and invades Bengal. His rival, Ghiyasuddin, leads an army to halt Iltutmish's advance, but decides to avoid a conflict by paying him tribute and accepting his suzerainty.source

14th century

16th century

  • 1575March 3 – Battle of Tukaroi: The Mughal Empire decisively defeats the Karrani dynasty of Bengal. The battle took place near the village of Tukaroi in present-day Balasore District of Odisha.source
  • 1576July 12 – The Mughal Empire annexes Bengal after defeating the Bengal Sultanate at the Battle of Rajmahal.source

17th century

  • 1632The Portuguese are driven out of Bengal.source
  • 1666January 27 – Mughal conquest of Chittagong: Mughal forces of Emperor Aurangzeb, in alliance with the Portuguese, under Shaista Khan and his son Buzurg Umed Khan, expel the Maghs from the Bengal port city of Chittagong, renaming the city as Islamabad.source
  • 1669Famine in Bengal kills 3 million people.source

18th century

  • 1733November 16 – Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent ruler of Bengal of undivided India (d. 1757)source
  • 1757July 2 – Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent ruler of Bengal of undivided India (b. 1733)source
  • 1769September – Massive droughts in Bengal lead to the Bengal famine of 1770, in which ten million people, a third of the population, will die, the worst natural disaster in human history (in terms of lives lost).source

19th century

  • 1817The first cholera pandemic originates in Bengal, reaching Calcutta by September.source
  • 1858July 28 – In Bengal, India, British officer William James Herschel uses the hand impression of Rajyadhar Konai, as a contract fingerprint signature.source
  • 1861January 31 – Kukis raid the Chhagalnaiya plains in eastern Bengal, murdering and kidnapping hundreds of people, particularly women.source

20th century

  • 1946October 10 – The Noakhali riots in Bengal begin: several hundred Hindus are massacred by Muslims.source
  • 1971August 25 – Bangladesh and eastern Bengal are flooded; thousands flee the area.source

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