The Bengal Presidency establishes a naval base…

February 1786 CE

The Bengal Presidency establishes a naval base and penal colony on Chatham Island in the southeast bay of Great Andaman in 1789.

The settlement is now known as Port Blair (after the Bombay Marine lieutenant Archibald Blair who founded it).

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Port Blair Andaman and Nicobar Islands India View →

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Britain, Kingdom of Great View → British people View → East India Company, British (United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies) View → India, East India Company rule in View → Bengal Presidency View →

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