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Kolkata

Kolkata

City on the Hooghly grown from Sutanuti and two villages; capital of British India until 1911.

Place

Also known as Calcutta

Identifiers
Wikidata Q1348

Sources

Appears in16 items

  • Everest: Mallory to Hillary and Tenzing1 item
    • Peak XV: the highest in the worldMar 1856
  • Mahatma Gandhi2 items
    • Independence and Partition15 Aug 1947
    • The Calcutta fast1 Sep 1947
  • Pandemics1 item
    • Koch identifies the cholera bacterium1884
  • Recorded Sound1 item
    • “My name is Gauhar Jaan”Nov 1902
  • The Automobile: From Benz to BYD1 item
    • The Hindustan Ambassador in production1958
  • The East India Company4 items
    • Job Charnock lands at Sutanuti24 Aug 1690 O.S.
    • Siraj ud-Daulah takes Calcutta20 Jun 1756
    • A monopoly on Bengal opium1773
    • The Regulating ActJun 1773
  • The History of India5 items
    • James Prinsep reads Ashoka1837
    • The capital moves to Delhi12 Dec 1911
    • The Raman effect28 Feb 1928
    • The Bengal famine of 19431943
    • Direct Action Day in Calcutta16 Aug 1946
  • Women’s Rights Beyond the Vote1 item
    • India’s first women graduates1883

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