West Bengal



YEAR DATE EVENT HEAD OF STATE GENERAL GOVERNOR
1634 2 february UK occupation
1700 26 may UK provence Charles Eyre
1701 7 january John Bead
1703 Kingdom Nawab Murshid Quli Ja'far Khan
1705 Edward Littleton
1705 july Anthony Weltden
1711 4 march John Russell
1713 3 december Robert Hedges
1718 12 january Samuel Flake
1723 17 january John Deane (I)
1726 30 january Henry Frankland
1727 Nawab Shuja ud`din
1728 17 september Edward Stephenson
1728 18 september John Deane (II)
1732 25 february John Stackhpuse
1739 29 january Nawab Safaraz Khan Thomas Broddyll
1740 Nawab Alivardi Khan
1746 4 february John Forster
1748 18 april William Barwell
1749 17 june Adam Dawson
1752 5 july William Fytche
1752 8 august Roger Drake
1756 october Nawab Siraj ud Daula Robert Clive, Baron Clive of Plassey (I)
1757 Nawab Mir Jafat
1760 28 january Nawab Mir Kasim John Zephaniah Holwell
1760 27 july Henry Vansittart
1764 3 december John Spencer
1765 3 may Nawab Najim ud Daula Robert Clive, Baron Clive of Plassey (II)
1766 Nawab Saif ud Daula
1767 29 january Harry Verelst
1769 26 december John Cartier
1770 -
1772 13 april Warren Hastings
1774 20 october Direct rule by the central government of British India
1854 Frederick James Halliday
1859 1 may John Peter Grant
1862 24 april Sir Cecil Beadon
1867 William Grey
1871 1 march George Campbell
1874 9 april Richard Temple
1877 8 january Ashley Eden
1879 15 july Stuart Colvin Bayley (I)
1882 24 april Augustus Rivers Thompson
1885 11 august H.A. Cockerell
1887 2 april Sir Stuart Colvin Bayley (II)
1890 17 december Charles Alfred Elliot
1893 30 may Anthony Patrick MacDonnell
1895 18 december Alexander Mackenzie
1897 23 june Sir Charles Cecil Stevens
1898 7 april John Woodburn
1902 23 november James Austen Bourdillon
1903 2 november Arthur Henderson Leith Fraser
1906 10 april Lancelot Hare
1906 16 august Sir Francis Alexander Slacke
1908 1 december Sir Edward Norman Baker
1911 14 july Sir Frederick William Duke
1912 1 april Thomas David Gibson-Carmichael, Baron Carmichael of Skirling
1917 26 march Lawrence John Lumley Dundas
1922 28 march Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Earl of Lytton
1927 28 march Francis Stanley Jackson
1932 29 march Sir John Anderson (I)
1934 10 august John Ackroyd Woodhead (I)
1937 1 april Sir John Anderson (II)
1937 27 november Michael Herbert Rudolph Knatchbull-Hugessen, Baron Brabourne
1939 24 february Robert Neil Reid
1939 12 june John Ackroyd Woodhead (II)
1939 18 november John Arthur Herbert
1943 6 september Thomas George Rutherford
1944 22 january Sir Richard Gardiner Casey
1946 19 february Sir Frederick John Burrows
1947 15 august Indian provence
1950 26 january State of India


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