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Governor-General of India

viceroy of British India

18 dated entries naming Governor-General of India, drawn from 16 separate years between 1785 CE and 1972 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.

Also written as Viceroy of India, Viceroy of india in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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18th century

  • 1785Governor-General of India Warren Hastings charged with maladministration and returns to Britain.source
  • 1795April 23 – Former Governor-General of India Warren Hastings is acquitted by the British House of Lords of misconduct.source
  • 179523 April – former Governor-General of India Warren Hastings acquitted by the House of Lords of misconduct.source
  • 1800July 10 – Fort William College is established by Lord Wellesley, British Governor-General of India, in Calcutta, to promote Bengali, Hindi and other vernaculars of the Indian subcontinent.source

19th century

  • 1814November 1 – Francis Rawdon-Hastings, the Governor-General of India declares war on Kingdom of Nepal and Anglo-Nepalese War begins.source
  • 1818August 22 – Warren Hastings, English Governor-General of India (born 1732)source
  • 1818September – Sir Stamford Raffles sets out to visit Lord Hastings, Governor-General of India, to gain his approval to establish a trading station at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula (modern-day Singapore).source
  • 1823August 1 – William Pitt Amherst arrives in Calcutta with Lady Amherst to become the new Governor-General of India.source
  • 1828July 4 – Lord William Bentinck arrives at Calcutta (modern-day Kolkata) to begin his administration as the new Governor-General of India, on behalf of King George IV of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1859January 11 – George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, British statesman, Viceroy of India (died 1925)source
  • 186221 March – James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin appointed Governor-General of India.source
  • 18728 February - Viceroy of India, Lord Mayo killed by a prisoner of Cellular Jail, Sher Ali Afridi.source

20th century

  • 1901February 12 – Viceroy of India Lord Curzon creates the new North-West Frontier Province in the north of the Punjab region, bordering Afghanistan.source
  • 1922March 13 – Edward, Prince of Wales, inaugurates the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College in Dehradun, India, marking a capitulation of the Governor General and Secretary of State for India to growing pressure for Indianization of the officer cadre of the Indian Army.source
  • 1930March 2 – Mahatma Gandhi informs the British Viceroy of India that civil disobedience will begin the following week.source
  • 1939September 3 – The United Kingdom, France, New Zealand, Australia and India (by its Viceroy) declare war on Nazi Germany. Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King, in English, and Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe, in French, give an international radio address stating the Dominion's intention to declare war also.source
  • 1947August 15 – Jawaharlal Nehru takes office as the first prime minister of India, taking his oath from Louis Mountbatten, Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Governor-General of India (but no longer viceroy).source
  • 1972December 25 – C. Rajagopalachari, Indian politician and freedom-fighter. Last Governor-General of India (1948–50) (born 1878)source

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