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Fort William College (also known as the College of Fort William) was an academy of oriental studies and a centre of learning, founded on 18 August 1800 by Lord Wellesley, then Governor-General of British India, located within the Fort William complex in Calcutta. Wellesley started the Fort William College with the original intention that it ...
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A view of Calcutta from Fort William (1807) Plan (top-view) of Fort William, c. 1844. There are two Fort Williams. The original fort was built in the year 1696 by the British East India Company under the orders of Sir John Goldsborough which took a decade to complete. The permission was granted by Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.
That particular period of William's life features prominently in the final season of The Crown, so we're taking a look back at real photos from William's university years. September 21, 2001
Fort William College at Calcutta (1800) The Subsidiary Treaty of Bassein (1802) [5] and Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803–1805) [6] Raj Bhavan at Calcutta was established (1803) Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738–1805) 30 July 1805 5 October 1805 George Barlow, 1st Baronet (acting) (1762–1847) 10 October 1805: 31 July 1807
William & Mary officially became a public college in 1906. Rutgers was founded in 1766 as Queen's College, named for Queen Charlotte. For much of its history, it was privately affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church. It changed its name to Rutgers College in 1825 and was designated as the State University of New Jersey after World War II.
Fort William Collegiate Institute (FWCI) was a collegiate institute operated by the Lakehead District School Board in Thunder Bay, Ontario from 1907 to 2005. [1] The school's teams were called the "FWCI Blue Bears". The building was granted Historical Heritage Site status in 1983, and was designated a historic building on May 15, 1983.
Print depicting Ancient Campus as it would have appeared before 1859. The Brafferton (left) and President's House (right) flank the Wren Building. The history of the College of William & Mary can be traced back to a 1693 royal charter establishing "a perpetual College of Divinity, Philosophy, Languages, and the good arts and sciences" in the British Colony of Virginia.