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