Portrait Name Term of office Notable events

(Birth–Death)

 Regulating Act of 1773

 Supreme Council of Bengal
 Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort
William (1774) was established
 Asiatic Society of Bengal (1784)
 Pitt's India Act (1784)
 Stopped Mughal pension to Shah
Alam II
 Abolished the Dual System in
Bengal
20  Moved Treasury
Warren October
1
from Murshidabad to Calcutta
Hastings  February
1773 1785  Bengal Gazette- First Indian
(1732-1818) [nb 1]
newspaper published (in 1780)
 First Anglo-Maratha War (1775–82)
 Second Anglo-Mysore war (1780–
84)
 First Rohilla War of 1773–1774
 "Ring fence policy"
 Experimentation on land
settlements. (1772-five years
settlement, changed to 1 year in 1776)
 English Translation of Bhagwat
Gita by Charles Wilkins[1]

 Established lower courts and

appellate courts
 Permanent Settlement in Bihar
and Bengal in 1793
Charles  3rd Anglo-Mysore war (1790–92)
12
Cornwallis 28  Introduction of Cornwallis Code
Septembe
The Marquess October  Introduction of Civil Services in
r
Cornwallis [nb 2] 1786 1793 India
(1738–1805)  Sanskrit
Vidyalaya at Benares (now Varanasi)
established by Johnathan Duncan(then
Governor of Bombay)
 Introduced "Sunset Law"

 Introduction of Subsidiary
Alliance (1798)
 Fourth Anglo Mysore War 1799
Richard
 Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803–
Wellesley, Earl 18 May 30 July
05)
of Mornington [nb 3] 1798 1805
 Fort William College at
(1760–1842)
Calcutta (1800)
 Raj Bhavan at Calcutta was
established in 1803


  Charter Act of 1813
The Lord Minto 31 July 4 October
 Treaty of Amritsar, 1809 with The
(1751–1814) 1807 1813
Great Maharaja Ranjit Singh

 Ended the policy of Non-

intervention
 Third Anglo-Maratha War (1816-
1818)
 Treaty of Sugauli (1816)
 Creation of Bombay Presidency in
1818
Francis Rawdon-
 Establishment of Ryotwari
Hastings, 4 October 9 January System in Madras (1820)
1st Marquess of 1813 1823  Establishment of Mahalwari
Hastings [nb 4] System in Northern India (1822)
(1754–1826)
 Hindu College (now Presidency
University) at Calcutta in 1817
 The Pindari War (1817-1818)
(Complete Destruction of
the Pindari Clan of India)
 General Committee of Public
Instruction was formed in 1823

 First Governor General of India

 Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829
 Mahalwari System in Central
India,Punjab And Western UP.
 Saint Helena Act 1833 or Charter
Act, 1833 (Christian Missionaries get
Lord William 4 July 20 March Exclusive rights to
Bentinck 1828 1835 spread Christianity in British
(1774–1839) India which included the present
day Pakistan)
 Kol Rebellion in 1831
 English Education Act 1835
 Medical College and Hospital,
Kolkata (1835)

The Lord 4 March 28  Tripartite Treaty in 1838

Auckland[nb 6] 1836 February between British, Shah Shuja (a cruel
(1784–1849) 1842 Afghan traitor) and The Great Maharaja
Ranjit Singh against Dost Muhammad
Khan.
 The First Anglo Afghan War(1840-
1842) (British Army massacred by the
strong Afghan army and militia during
the 1842 Retreat from Kabul-worst
British Military disaster)
 Bank of Bombay (1840) established
(later Imperial Bank of India, now State
Bank of India)
 First Bengali daily
newspaper Sambad Prabhakar was
published in 1839
  Tattwabodhini Sabha was formed
by Debendranath Tagore in 1839

 Doctrine of Lapse in 1848

 Bethune Collegiate School
(1849) (was also known as Calcutta
Female School) was established
by John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune
 Charles Wood Despatch (1854)
 Establishment of summer capital
at Shimla
 Second Anglo-Burmese War
(1852) (The sole aim of Dalhousie was
to humiliate and annex more of
Burmese Territories. Burma was
attacked unprovoked)
The Earl of 12 28  First Passenger train between
Dalhousie[nb 8] January February Bombay and Thane (1853)
(1812–1860) 1848 1856  First telegraph Line was laid
between Diamond Harbour to Calcutta.
(1851)
 Post Office Act, 1854
 Established Public Works
Department (1854)
 The Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848-
1849) (The British completely crush The
Great Sikh Empire)
 Santhal Rebellion (1855) (15000
Santhals were brutally killed by the
British Army while crushing the
rebellion. elephants were used to
destroy Santhal Dwellings)

 Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act,

1856
The Viscount 28 31
 Indian Rebellion of 1857
Canning[nb 9] February October
1856 1858  University of Calcutta, University of
(1812–1862)
Bombay, and University of Madras were
set up in 1857

 The Government of India Act,

1858
1  System of Budget introduced
21 March
November  Formation of Imperial Civil Services
1858 1862
 Indigo Revolt in Bengal in 1859-60
 Enactment of Indian Penal Code in
1860

The Earl of Elgin 21 March 20  Establishment of Calcutta High

(1811–1863) 1862 Novembe Court (2 July), Bombay High Court (14
r August) and Madras High Court (15
1863 August) in 1862