<Tr> <Th> Name (Birth--Death) </Th> <Th> Portrait </Th> <Th_colspan="2"> Term of office </Th> <Th> Happenings </Th> <Th> Appointer </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="6"> Governors of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), 1773--1833 </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Warren Hastings (1732 - 1818) </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 20 October 1773 (originally joined on 28 April 1772) </Td> <Td> 1 February 1785 </Td> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Regulating Act of 1773 </Li> <Li> Supreme Council Of Bengal </Li> <Li> Asiatic Society of Bengal </Li> <Li> Stopped Mughal pension to Shah Alam II </Li> <Li> Stopped Diarchy in Bengal </Li> <Li> New Sanskrit School by Jonathan Deccan </Li> <Li> Moved Treasury from Murshidabad to Calcutta </Li> <Li> Bengal Gazette - First Indian newspaper published </Li> <Li> First Anglo - Maratha War (1775--82) </Li> <Li> Second Anglo - Mysore war (1780--84) </Li> <Li> First Rohilla War of 1773--1774 </Li> <Li> Second Rohilla War 1779 </Li> <Li> Experimentation on land settlements . (1772 - five years settlement, changed to 1 year in 1776) </Li> <Li> English Translation of Bhagwat Gita </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> East India Company (1773--1858) </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> Regulating Act of 1773 </Li> <Li> Supreme Council Of Bengal </Li> <Li> Asiatic Society of Bengal </Li> <Li> Stopped Mughal pension to Shah Alam II </Li> <Li> Stopped Diarchy in Bengal </Li> <Li> New Sanskrit School by Jonathan Deccan </Li> <Li> Moved Treasury from Murshidabad to Calcutta </Li> <Li> Bengal Gazette - First Indian newspaper published </Li> <Li> First Anglo - Maratha War (1775--82) </Li> <Li> Second Anglo - Mysore war (1780--84) </Li> <Li> First Rohilla War of 1773--1774 </Li> <Li> Second Rohilla War 1779 </Li> <Li> Experimentation on land settlements . (1772 - five years settlement, changed to 1 year in 1776) </Li> <Li> English Translation of Bhagwat Gita </Li> </Ul>

Who was the first governor general of india during british rule