Enlightenment · South Asia · Politics
1690
Job Charnock Founds Calcutta
1690
An East India Company agent named Job Charnock, after years of diplomatic humiliations, re-established the Company's Bengal trading post at three villages on the Hooghly River. The settlement would grow into Fort William and then Calcutta, eventually the capital of British India. The third of the great Company presidencies had begun.
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Also in 1690 (3 other events on record)
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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