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1732 - 1818Life of the colonial administrator and first Governor-General of the East India Company Warren Hastings.
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6 Dec 1732Warren Hastings is born in Churchill, Oxfordshire.
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1750Warren Hastings joins the East India Company as a clerk or ‘writer’.
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1758 - 1761Warren Hastings serves as the East India Company's representative at the court of the Nawab of Bengal.
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1761Warren Hastings is appointed to the East India Company's Council of Bengal.
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1772Warren Hastings is appointed the East India Company Governor of Bengal.
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1774 - 1785Warren Hastings serves as the first Governor-General of the East India Company.
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1787Warren Hastings is impeached by Parliament on charges of corruption. He is ultimately acquitted.
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1818Warren Hastings dies in Daylesford in Gloucestershire, England.
