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Historical Event on 8/18/1800

Fort William College was established at Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/29/1947Mysore's popular ministry sworn in.
10/26/1935Ashok P.Jain, great industrialist, was born.
1/22/1945The Indian 7th Division captures Tilin at Burma.
2/10/1961P. L. Deshpande played first solo drama 'Batatyachi Chawl'.
5/19/1991About 20 crore voters go to the polls in the first phase of election in 204 constituencies of the 10th Lok Sabha.
11/2/1984Violence following Indira Gandhi's assassination takes heavy toll.
12/4/1992RBI devalues Rupee by 1.18% against the US dollar. India emerges overall champions with 10 golds; 8 silver and 14 bronzes in the 4th Asian Junior Athletic meet in New Delhi.
5/18/1988The ten-day Golden Temple siege at Amritsar ends with the surrender of 46 militant Sikhs.
1/5/1988India's first indigenously built 'Braille' script released short hand machine for the blind.
11/10/1698East India Company purchased Calcutta, which had not more than a village at that time.