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2 unusual facts about United Provinces


Muhammad Faiyaz Ali Khan

Nawab Sir Muhammad Faiyaz Ali Khan Bahadur, the Nawab of Pahasu, GBE, KCSI, KCIE, KCVO, MBE; (1851–1922) was a member of Governor General' Council of the United Provinces and Member of the Legislative council of United Provinces.

Patrick Murray, 5th Lord Elibank

He was married in 1735 to Maria Margaretta, daughter of , lord of Elmeet in Holland, receiver-general of the United Provinces, and widow of William, Lord North and Grey; but there was no issue of the marriage.


1653 in England

8–10 August - Battle of Scheveningen: The final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War is fought, between the fleets of the Commonwealth and the United Provinces off the Texel; the English navy gains a tactical victory over the Dutch fleet.

Baoni State

The state was bounded on the north by the district of Cawnpore in the western district of Jalaun and to the south and east by the district of Hamirpur (all of the United Provinces).

Bergen op Zoom

During the early modern period, Bergen op Zoom was a very strong fortress and one of the main armories and arsenals of the United Provinces.

Company of Merchant Adventurers of London

The merchants who had frequented Middelburg since 1582 were invited to return in 1587 to the (now independent) United Provinces.

Duchy of Cleves

The Hohenzollern margraves thereby got a first foothold in the Rhineland, however, large parts of the Duchy of Cleves were occupied by the United Provinces until the Franco-Dutch War in 1672.

Francis Palmes

From February 1708 Palmes travelled extensively, undertaking mission to the United Provinces, Hanover, Prussia, Vienna and Savoy in order to concert measures with the allies.

George Gall Sim

He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1900 and went out to India at the end of 1901, where he was posted to the United Provinces, serving as an Assistant Magistrate and Collector.

Gervasio Antonio de Posadas

During his rule, Saavedra and Campana were exiled, Montevideo fell to the United Provinces but serious problems arose with José Gervasio Artigas and the Liga Federal on the Banda Oriental.

Harcourt Butler Technological Institute

On 25 November 1921, the governor of the United Provinces, Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler (1869–1938), K.C.S.I., C.I.E., laid the foundation of the present building.

Indian Councils Act 1909

It was fixed as 50 in Bengal, Bombay, Madras, United Provinces, and Eastern Bengal and Assam, and 30 in Punjab, Burma, and any lieutenant-governor province created thereafter.

Oliver Óge French

He was an agent for the Irish Confederation to the United Provinces in May 1648, making a speech to the states general in The Hague.

Ralph Winwood

In 1603 Winwood was sent to The Hague as agent to the States-General of the United Provinces, and was appointed a member of the Dutch council of state on the basis of the Treaty of Nonsuch.

Selwyn Fremantle

He was appointed Registrar of Co-operative Societies in the United Provinces in 1907, Collector and Magistrate of Allahabad in 1913, Commissioner of Bareilly in 1918, Controller of Passages of the United Provinces in 1919, and Commissioner of Meerut in 1919.

Socialism in India

Small communist groups were formed in Bengal (led by Muzaffar Ahmed), Bombay (led by S.A. Dange), Madras (led by Singaravelu Chettiar), United Provinces (led by Shaukat Usmani) and Punjab (led by Ghulam Hussain).


see also

Battle of Beachy Head

The third day of fighting in the Battle of Portland, 1653, during the First Anglo-Dutch War, took place off Beachy Head between fleets of the Commonwealth of England under General at Sea Robert Blake and the United Provinces under Admiral Maarten Tromp

Harry George Champion

He joined the Indian Forest Service in 1915 and became a silviculturist at the Forest Research Institute at Dehradun staying there until 1936 before becoming a Conservator in the United Provinces.

Ishwar Das Varshnei

Later he established the first flat glass factory in Bahjoi by the name of United Provinces Glass Works, incorporated as a limited liability company in 1916.

Kortenaer

Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer (1604–1665), admiral of the United Provinces of the Netherlands

Walrad, Prince of Nassau-Usingen

At different times, he was General Field Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation and of the United Provinces of the Netherlands under Prince William III of Orange.

Willem II

William II, Prince of Orange (1626-1650), stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands

William of Orange

William II, Prince of Orange (1626 – 1650), stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands from 1647