Concluded this day in 1757 by Robert Clive, the Treaty of Alinagar restored Calcutta (Kolkata)—which Clive had recovered in January from Siraj-ud-Dawlah—to British rule and served as a prelude to the seizure of Bengal.
| 1996: | | German physicist Peter Armbruster synthesized the chemical element 112, a heavy, transuranium element. |
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| 1984: | | Soviet Premier Yury Andropov died 15 months after succeeding Leonid Brezhnev and was replaced by Konstantin Chernenko. |
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| 1796: | | The Qianlong emperor of China abdicated and was succeeded by the Jiaqing emperor. |
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