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Jun 19, 2024 · On 1 April 1946, the Straits Settlements were disbanded by the Straits Settlements (Repeal) Act (9 & 10 Geo. VI, c. 37) The new Colony of Singapore was created by the Singapore Colony Order in Council 1946 ( SI 464/1946 ) and the Singapore Legislative Council was constituted with power to legislate for the colony.
Straits Settlements was the name given to a series of British colonial possessions on the Malay Peninsula, with the oldest being Penang, founded in 1786, followed by Singapore in 1819. Their strategic position on the Straits of Malacca earned them the title 'Gibraltar of the East', and following a series of wars in the 1860s with local kingdoms ...
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The Straits Settlements, a British colonial administrative unit comprised of three city ports flourishing along the Strait of Malacca, was established in 1826 and administered from Penang, overseeing Malacca and Singapore. Penang, the first Straits settlement, was ceded to the English East India Company on August 11, 1786, by Sultan Abdullah ...
Straits dollar. One Straits one dollar banknote from 1935. One Straits one cent coin from 1920. The Straits dollar was the currency of the Straits Settlements from 1898 until 1939. [1] At the same time, it was also used in the Federated Malay States, the Unfederated Malay States, Kingdom of Sarawak, Brunei, and British North Borneo .
of India", for there were between eleven and twelve hundred Indian convicts in Singapore alone.2 By 1845 the number had risen to fifteen hundred.3. i. Kernial Singh Sandhu, "Tamil and other Indian convicts in the Straits Settlements, A.D. 1 790-1873", Proceedings of the first International Conference Seminar of Tamil Studies, 1966, Vol. I, p. 200.
London, England. Governor of the Gold Coast. 21. Edward VIII. George VI. Japanese occupation of Singapore. From 15 February 1942 to 12 September 1945. British Military Administration of the Straits Settlements. From 12 September 1945 to 31 March 1946.
