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Events on Saturday 22 August 1818 1
1732 – 1818Warren Hastings (1732-1818)Died 22 August 1818, aged 85Warren Hastings served as the first Governor-General of Bengal and effectively the first head of British India. He was impeached by Parliament in 1787 on charges of corruption and mismanagement but was acquitted in 1795 after a seven-year trial. His tenure shaped the early administrative structure of British rule in India.