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Bengal Presidency

province of British India from 1699 to 1947

6 dated entries naming Bengal Presidency, drawn from 6 separate years between 1728 CE and 1921 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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18th century

  • 1728September 18 – John Deane, a colonial administrator of Britain's British East India Company, returns to Calcutta (Kolkata) after an absence of more than two years, and takes office at Fort William to return to administering the Bengal Presidency, an area now covering the Indian state of West Bengal and the nation of Bangladesh.source
  • 1732February 25 – John Stackhouse is appointed by the British East India Company as the new President of the Bengal Presidency and serves for seven years.source
  • 1785February 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.source
  • 1789The Bengal Presidency first establishes a penal colony, in the Andaman Islands.source

20th century

  • 1913The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established in Bengal Province (modern-day Bangladesh).source
  • 1921December 23 – Visva-Bharati College is founded by Rabindranath Tagore in Santiniketan, Bengal Presidency, British India.source

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