History notes (timeline, memorising events by dates) ;]

To help memorise dates and events from quizlet more easily using summarisation.

7th to 13th century n 13th century

Srivijaya was a powerful maritime kingdom.

White stem cup fragment found in Parliament House complex.

12th to 14th century, 14th century, 16th to 17th century

• Found in fort canning hill

  • Blue & white stem cup

  • Gold earring & armlet

  • Glass beads

• found in parliament house complex

• Dehua plate fragment

• Mercury jar

• white stem cup fragment(12th to 14th century)

• Found at Empress Place

  • Ceramic shards with design motifs in an underglazed blue

  • Majapahit-style headless horseman

  • gold coin with jawi text (16th to 17th century)

14th century + artefacts found

China experienced droughts & famines.

• Kingdoms of Majapahit and Siamese kingdom Ayutthaya weakened Temasek.

• Parameswara killed local ruler in Temasek

15th Century

• Parameswara became Sultan of Melaka.

• Melaka took over Sg's dominance as a trading centre.

17th Century

• Dutch was the dominant European power in SEA (Southeast Asia).

• British EIC vs Dutch EIC had trade rivalry since the 17th Century.

18th Century

• Sg declined due to changing trade patterns

1819

• 1819 (6 Feb 1819)

  • Treaty of Friendship & alliance was signed.

1823 (June 1823)

• Raffles left.

• Sg under British India government.

• All decisions had to be approved by Raffles. [Sg under administration of Bencoolen].

1824 (17 March 1824)

Anglo-Dutch Treaty signed

1819 to june 1823 (administrative changes)

all decisions regarding sg had to be approved by sir Stamford raffles until June 1823

1824 to 1858 ( administrative changes)

• Singapore was formally transferred to the East India Company (EIC) and came under official British control.

• 1826: Singapore became part of the Straits Settlements along with Penang and Melaka. (still part of EIC)

1852

Keppel Harbour was established.

1819 to 1867 (problem at hand)

• Government did not provide medical services; high death rates. Limited education opportunities (left to missionaries and traders).

1858 – 1867( administrative changes)

• The EIC is dissolved. Singapore comes under the administration of the British government's India Office in London.

Opening if the suez canal

17 november 1869

in and after 1874 (topic of tin and rubber industries)

-Spread of british control to parts of malaya after 1874 left to peaceful conditions there.

• facilitated the development of tin mining and tin trade (after 1874)

-Malaya was the fourth largest tin producer in the world (in 1874)

By 1890, (tin and rubber industries

by 1890, malaya was producing more than half of the worlds tin

By the early 20th century

Straits trading company on pulau Brani (a tin smelting factory) had become the leading tin smelter in the world

Early 20th century (tin and rubber industries)

singapore also exported rubber in large quantitites

1867 – 1942 (administrative changes) + effects

Singapore officially becomes a Crown Colony and is transferred to the Colonial Office in London.

Better healthcare and growing educational opportunities.

1881

Police Training School was started

1884

Detective force was established.

1887

Public Health department established (to combat high death rates).

1911 + 1911 ( tin and rubber industries)

Growth of Chinese schools.

the singapore chamber of commerce (a rubber association) was established, which organised sales of rubber in singapore and made it an international rubber market

1913

Government set up the Singapore Harbour Board.

1914 (tin and rubber industries )

Rubber exports from malaya rose from 104 tonnes in 1905 to 196000 tonnes in 1914.

Early 1930s ( the great depression)

-share prices went up too bigh

US factories overproduced goods, causing a massive stock market crash that killed global demand for Singapore's rubber and tin.

What is the great depression?

People got overly excited in the 1920s and bought tons of company stocks using borrowed bank money, pushing stock prices way higher than what companies were actually worth. At the same time, US factories made too many goods (like cars and appliances) that regular people couldn't afford to buy anymore. Once investors realized factories were struggling with unsold stock, everyone panicked and tried to sell their shares at the exact same time in October 1929—crashing the stock market, bankrupting the banks, and leaving millions of Americans completely broke.

1942

• Causeway between Singapore and Malaya opened.