On this day, the name Calcutta was used for one of the first times.

A letter dated June 22, Dacca, 1688, and written by Charles Eyre and Roger Braddyll to the “Agent” in Calcutta, Job Charnock, reads: “He (the Nawab) will grant us his parwanna also for building at Calcutta with ground sufficient for a town or two as you desire.”

In another letter dated July 9, 1689, Dacca, written to Elihu Yale, the president of the British East India Company at Madras, Calcutta was mentioned twice.

Charnock did not mention Calcutta in his correspondence during these years, but used Chutanuttee. But he mentioned Calcutta in his comments on Captain Heath’s campaigns on the east coast of India, which were a setback for the company’s trade.

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