The Bengal Presidency of British India at its greatest extent in 1858.

** Bengal Presidency

| PLACE OF BIRTH = Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India

He also served as leader of the Indian National Congress, Premier of the Madras Presidency, Governor of West Bengal, Minister for Home Affairs of the Indian Union and Chief Minister of Madras state.

A Governor-General and Council were appointed to rule over the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal.

The Governor-General originally had power only over the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal.

Born Kumudlal Ganguly in Bhagalpur, Bengal Presidency he attained iconic status in Indian cinema.

The Bengal Presidency started collecting figures on the practice in 1813.

On 4 December 1829, the practice was formally banned in the Bengal Presidency lands, by the then-governor, Lord William Bentick.

A local indication of the numbers is given in the records kept by the Bengal Presidency of the British East India Company.

The Bengal Presidency kept records from 1813 to 1829.

The army in the Presidencies of Bengal, Bombay & Madras functioned as respective Presidency Army until April 1895, when the Presidency Armies were unified into a single Indian Army.

The Bank of Bengal was one of three Presidency banks, the other two being the Bank of Bombay ( incorporated on 15 April 1840 ) and the Bank of Madras ( incorporated on 1 July 1843 ).

Iskander Ali Mirza was born on 14 December 1898, at Murshidabad, Bengal Presidency of British Indian Empire.

The significance of Kaithi grew when the British governments of the Bengal Presidency ( of which Bihar and some southern districts of Nepal was territory ) and the Northwestern provinces and Oudh selected the script for use in administration and education.

Baron Sinha, of Raipur in the Presidency of Bengal, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

XV Corps ( British India ) was first formed from Headquarters Assam and Bengal Presidency District HQ on 30 March 1942, to defend Bengal, under the command of Eastern Army.

# 1937: The Lady Brabourne ( wife of Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne, Governor of the Presidency of Bombay 1931-1937 and of Bengal 1937-1939 )

Metcalfe was born on 30 January 1785 in Lecture House, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, India, the second son of Thomas Metcalfe, then a major in the Bengal Army, who first went to India in 1767 as a cadet in the King ’ s Army, afterwards became a Baronet, MP, and Director of the British East India Company ( 1789 – 1812 ), and was created a baronet on 21 December 1802.

Other regions of Company-controlled India – such as Bengal, the Bombay Presidency, and the Madras Presidency – remained largely calm.

The first cholera pandemic occurred in the Bengal region of India starting in 1817 through 1824.

Clive was appointed by the company as its first ' Governor of Bengal ' in 1757.

For the first few years of its existence, the activities of the Alumni Association were mainly educational, practically confined to the guidance of and assistance to the NCE and the development of the BTI ( Bengal Technical Institute ).

Aurobindo Ghosh was the first Principal of the Bengal National College and among the teachers were luminaries like Rabindranath Tagore, Sir Gurudas Bandyopadhyay, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Surendranath Banerjee, Ramendra Sundar Tribedi, Radha Kumud Mukherjee and Benoy Kumar Sarkar.

* Shashanka is the first recorded independent king of Bengal ( approximate date ).

* September 11 – Portuguese fidalgo Diogo Lopes de Sequeira becomes the first European to reach Malacca, having crossed the Gulf of Bengal.

Pala dynasty were the first independent Buddhist dynasty of Bengal.

Islam made its first appearance in Bengal during the 12th century when Sufi missionaries arrived.

Portuguese traders and missionaries were the first Europeans to reach Bengal in the latter part of the 15th century.

Calcutta was Britain's first foothold in Bengal and remained a focal point of their economic activity.

Job Charnock was one of the first dreamers of a British empire in Bengal.

In the next two years, the Company built its first factory in south India in the town of Machilipatnam on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal.

The first, the Bengal famine of 1770, is estimated to have taken around 10 million lives — one-third of Bengal's population at the time.

The term was first used in English in British India ( now India, Bangladesh and Pakistan ) and neighbouring countries to refer to the big seasonal winds blowing from the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea in the southwest bringing heavy rainfall to the area.

TICA adopted the first written breed standard in 1986 and the first Bengal Bulletin was published in 1988.

During the Seven Years ' War, Britain gained its first substantial foothold on the Indian subcontinent by supporting Mir Jafar's claim to the title of Nawab of Bengal at the expense of Siraj ud-Daulah.

The first organised militant movements were in Bengal, but they later took to the political stage in the form of a mainstream movement in the then newly formed Indian National Congress ( INC ), with prominent moderate leaders seeking only their basic right to appear for Indian Civil Service examinations, as well as more rights, economic in nature, for the people of the soil.

In 1773, he was appointed the first Governor-General of Bengal.

One of his first actions in office was to address the Bengal famine of 1943 by ordering the army to distribute relief supplies to the starving rural Bengalis.

This marks the first day of the Hindu solar calendar and is also observed in Bengal, Manipur, Nepal, Orissa, Punjab, Kerala and Tamil Nadu though called by different names.

Supported by Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajaji was appointed first Governor of West Bengal.

Amar Shonar Bangla (, " My Golden Bengal ") is a 1905 song written and composed by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore ( defender of an undivided India ), the first ten lines of which were adopted in 1972 as the Bangladeshi national anthem.

Resolving to devote himself and his means wholly to the advancement of Christianity, his first proposal for that end, made in 1796, was to organize a vast mission to Bengal, of which he was to provide the entire expense ; with this view the greater part of his estate was sold, but the British East India Company refused to sanction the scheme, which therefore had to be abandoned.