Question: who was the first governor general of east india company in bengal
Answer: Portrait Name ( Birth -- Death ) Term of office Notable events Appointer Governors Generals of the Presidency of Fort William ( Bengal ) , 1773 -- 1833 Warren Hastings ( 1732 - 1818 ) 20 October 1773 1 February 1785 Regulating Act of 1773 Supreme Council Of Bengal Asiatic Society of Bengal Stopped Mughal pension to Shah Alam II Stopped Diarchy in Bengal New Sanskrit School by Jonathan Deccan Moved Treasury from Murshidabad to Calcutta Bengal Gazette - First Indian newspaper published First Anglo - Maratha War ( 1775 -- 82 ) Second Anglo - Mysore war ( 1780 -- 84 ) First Rohilla War of 1773 -- 1774 Second Rohilla War 1779 Experimentation on land settlements .