ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Timelines : History of Straits Settlements </title> <META name="keywords" keyword="Malaysia, Singapore"> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2004-2007 --> </head> <body bgcolor="grey" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"></a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Straits Settlements <BR> Index Page </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xstraits.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xstraits.html"> <img src = "../banners/banstraits.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on December 21st 2004, last revised on November 5th 2006 </i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5834279270464755"; google_alternate_color = "FFFFE1"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_channel ="4814426207"; google_ad_type = "text"; //2007-02-17: MIT_ Ganse google_ad_channel = "0420158018"; google_color_border = "FF3300"; google_color_bg = "FFFFE1"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "6F6F6F"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <BR><BR><BR> </div> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline : Straits Settlements </B></font> </TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1786 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> The E.I.C. acquired Penang </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1795 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> The British occupied Malacca (property of the V.O.C.) </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1800 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> The E.I.C. acquired Wellesley Province </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1805 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Penang was made an E.I.C. Presidency </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1810 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> British forces occupied Ambon, Banda (Dutch East Indies) </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1811 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> British forces occupied Java (Dutch East Indies) </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1816 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> The British returned Ambon, Banda, Java, Malacca to the Dutch (D.E.I.) </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1819 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> The E.I.C. established a trading factory on Singapore (Johore), an island then inhabited by c. 150 Malays </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1822 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Request by Kelantan for a British protectorate not accepted </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1824 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Anglo-Dutch Treaty; D.E.I. ceded Malacca to the E.I.C. </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1826 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Straits Settlements established as an administrative unit of E.I.C. India; seat of administration Penang </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1830 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Penang Presidency reduced to a lieutenant governorship subordinate to Bengal </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1832 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Seat of administration moved from Penang to Singapore </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1837-1870es </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Actions to suppress piracy in, around Malacca Straits undertaken </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1858 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> E.I.C. bankrupt; Straits Settlements became part of British India </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1867 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Straits Settlements declared separate crown colony, under Colonial Office </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1867 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> First postage stamps for Straits Settlements issued </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1871 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Currency Reform; introduction of the Straits Dollar </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1871 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Patent Ordinnance decreed, permitted patenting of inventions </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1874 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Flag of the Straits Settlements adopted </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1874 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Perak ceded Dindings to Straits Settlements <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1878 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Population of Straits Settlements 420,000 </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1881 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Cocos (Keeling) Islands administratively placed under Straits Settlements </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1886 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Straits Settlements Govt. assumed administration of education </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1888 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Christmas Island administratively placed under Straits Settlements </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1902 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Straits Settlements and FMS Govt. Medical School established at Singapore; first institution of higher learning </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1905 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Labuan administratively placed under Straits Settlements </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1906 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Compulsory Education Act </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1906 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> About half of the colony's revenue was derived from licensing opium farms, opium smoking houses </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1913 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Straits Settlements had a population of 759,000 </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1915 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> WW I : German warship Emden sunk after destroying wireless and cable station on Christmas Island </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1915 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> WW I : Mutiny of Sepoy regiments in Singapore </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1917 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> About half of the colony's revenue was derived from licensing opium farms, opium smoking houses </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1922 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Straits Settlements Volunteer Force established by combining local forces </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1928 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Raffles College established in Singapore </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1930 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> British naval base constructed in Singapore </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1935 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Straits Settlements ceded Dindings back to Perak </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1941 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Population of Straits Settlements 1,410,000 </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1942 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Straits Settlements, except for Cocos Islands, occupied by the Japanese </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1946 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Straits Settlements dissolved </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <BR><BR><BR><BR> </div><div align = "center"> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; 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