T Tom Roberts J Jamini Roy U U Ba Nyan L Lim Cheng Hoe C Chuah Thean Teng A Awang Sitai To find out more about these artists, refer to “Six Artists' Lives and Legacies.” 1600 1757 1764 1767 1769 1770 1773 1774 1786 EVENTS OF 1577 1580 1591 1716 1775 1780 1782 1783 1784 Sir Francis Drake is the first Sir James Lancaster and George Queen Elizabeth I grants a royal charter to the newly Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar e EIC defeats Siraj-ud-daula, e EIC defeats allied In the First Anglo-Mysore James Cook, an English e EIC’s administration In the First Anglo-Maratha War against the Maratha Empire, In exchange for British Englishman to make contact with Raymond embark upon a voyage to founded East India Company (EIC) to pursue trade in establishes a decree giving the EIC the ruling Nawab of Bengal, and Mughal, Bengal and Oudh War, Mysorean forces defeat naval lieutenant, sails and of Madras and Bombay the British fail to retain any significant territorial gains in the military assistance against the Spice Islands during his the East Indies with the approval of the East Indies. e Dutch Vereenidge Oost-Indische rights to duty-free trade in India. his French allies at the Battle of forces at the Battle of Buxar. the combined armies of the maps the eastern coast of becomes subordinate to Indian subcontinent. Siam, the Sultan of Kedah EMPIRE IN THE circumnavigation of the globe. Queen Elizabeth I. Lancaster Compagnie, or United East India Company, is founded e EIC had earlier set up factories Plassey. Puppet rulers are installed e Mughal emperor later EIC, the Marathas and the Australia during his first Calcutta, the capital of cedes the island of Penang in reaches Sumatra and the Malay in 1602. When the EIC reaches Maluku two years later, there and been trading since the in Bengal by the EIC, making grants the EIC rights to Nizam of Hyderabad. expedition to the Pacific. He British India. Warren the Malay Peninsula to the Peninsula but is marooned on his years of intense rivalry and conflict with the Dutch for early 1600s. Siraj-ud-daula the last independent collect revenue in Bengal. names it New South Wales Hastings, a British colonial EIC. e British establish way home, eventually returning to control of the spice trade begin. e French East India Nawab of Bengal. Earlier, the EIC and claims possession in the administrator, becomes the e EIC's forces are defeated in the Second Anglo-Mysore War. Penang as a trading port and England in 1594. Raymond and his Company, founded in 1664, also battles with the EIC for recaptured Calcutta, which had name of King George III. first Governor-General of naval base. ASIA-PACIFIC ship are lost at sea. influence in the Indian subcontinent. been forcefully taken by India in 1774. Siraj-ud-daula in 1756, and stormed the French trading post at With the loss of its irteen Colonies in North America as a result of the War of American Independence, Britain Chandernagore near Calcutta. needs a new place to transport its convicts. Botany Bay in New South Wales is chosen. 1832 1828 1826 1824 1819 1818 1817 1815 1811 1809 1805 1804 1803 1802 1800 1799 1792 1790 1788 e Black War, a period of violent e Straits Settlements, comprising With the signing of the e British acquire Singapore and In the ird Anglo-Maratha War, e British attack and take possession e Treaty of Amritsar formalises During the Castle Hill Rebellion, Matthew Flinders of the Royal Navy encounters a During the Fourth Anglo-Mysore e ird Anglo-Mysore War erupts e First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay conflict and hostilities between of Penang, Malacca and Singapore, Anglo-Dutch Treaty in London, establish a free port there. Later, with British victory brings an end to the of Java; Sir Stamford Raffles is the Satlej, a river in Panjab, as the Irish convicts in Sydney attempt to French expedition group on the south coast of Australia War, the EIC and its allies storm when the kingdom of Mysore invades in New South Wales from England Aboriginal Australians and white is formed, further consolidating Singapore and the Malay Peninsula growing trade, the port attracts Maratha Empire. is leaves the EIC installed as the Lieutenant-Governor. Anglo-Sikh frontier. Sikh leader challenge penal rule and seize power during his circumnavigation of the continent. In Srirangapatnam, the capital of Mysore, Travancore, a British ally at the on 18 January 1788 and reaches Port colonists on Van Diemen's Land, is Britain's position in the Malay come under the British sphere of international banks and mercantile with control over almost the entirety Despite Raffles' objections, Java is Ranjit Singh establishes friendly from British colonial authority. response, Captain Philip Gidley King, Governor of New killing Tipu and ending Mysore's southern tip of the Indian subcontinent. Jackson eight days later. Arthur ongoing. e governor declares Peninsula. e cultivation and trade influence. firms that set up agency houses to of India, including the princely states handed back to the Dutch in 1816. relations with the British and secures South Wales, sends a party of British officers from resistance to the expansion of the EIC's e Mysorean troops are heavily Philip, commander of the expedition, martial law in November 1828. of cash crops such as gambier, handle shipping and provide banking which were ruled indirectly through their recognition of his sovereignty. Sydney to occupy Van Diemen's Land, later renamed influence in the subcontinent. outnumbered and their ruler, Tipu assumes government and takes formal nutmeg, sugar and pepper generate facilities. local chiefs. Tasmania in 1856. Sultan, has to surrender half of his possession of the new colony. e considerable revenue for the Straits territories to the EIC and its allies. Second Fleet arrives in 1790 and the Settlements in the 1800s. e British are victorious in the Second Anglo-Maratha War, Humiliated by his defeat, Tipu ird, the year after. Most of the gaining control over northern and central India and expanding strengthens his alliance with France. convicts who arrive during these early their frontiers. years are English. Pemulwuy, an Aboriginal man from the Eora nation at Botany Bay, mounts a sustained resistance against British invasion and settlement. He is shot e EIC declares war against the Burmese Konbaung down in 1802. kingdom in 1824. e First Anglo-Burmese War ends in 1826 with the signing of the Treaty of Yandabo, which Britain is at war with France, which is under the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte. After the French emperor is defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, Britain seeks to create gives the British the territories of Assam, Manipur, a self-sustaining economy instead of continuing to protect its trade monopolies through high military expenditure. Arakan and Tenasserim. e Burmese have to make a large indemnity payment. T 1835 1836 1838 1842 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1856 1857 1858 1859 1874 1877 With the enactment of the English e British and Foreign As a result of the Myall Creek e Sultan of Brunei awards Gold is discovered in Australia; the e Great Exhibition of the Works of During the Second Anglo-Burmese e transportation of convicts to e Eureka Rebellion against e Hindu Widows' Remarriage Known as the First War of Indian e Victorian Board of Protection is e Malay States of Perak, Selangor and Sungai Ujong Rubber is first introduced to Malaya when the Education Act, English becomes Aborigines’ Protection Society is massacre in New South Wales, seven Sarawak to James Brooke, an gold rushes transform the Australian Industry of All Nations is held in War, British forces annex Lower Van Diemen's Land ends. British colonial authority occurs on Act is enacted in India by British Independence to the Indians and the established. It seeks to protect and are brought under British control, and the residential Singapore Botanic Gardens receives and the language of government established in London by evangelical white settlers are convicted and English adventurer, for helping quell colonies. e 1850s, for instance, see London. e very first world's fair, Burma which comprises territories the outskirts of Ballarat, a gold authorities. is opposes the Indian Mutiny to the British, the confine the Aboriginal peoples. system of government is installed and subsequently cultivates seedlings from the Royal Botanic administration and educational Christians. Two years later, a branch executed for murdering indigenous a local rebellion. the first railways being built, the first it is a celebration of the diversity such as Rangoon, Bassein, Martaban mining town in Victoria. established Hindu practice of rebellion by Indian soldiers from the resisted by the Malays. Perak's first Resident, James Gardens, Kew, England. It later becomes one of instruction in British India. in Sydney is established. people, causing outrage among many telegraphs beginning to operate and and richness of the British Empire. and Pegu. disallowing widows to remarry. EIC's Bengal army, which begins in W.W. Birch, is assassinated the year after. is system of Malaya’s key exports. In that same year, the British colonisers. the colony of Victoria contributing Meerut and spreads to other parts of government is extended to the rest of Negeri Sembilan British establish the Chinese Protectorate in more than a third of the world's India, brings an end to Company rule. in 1887 and Pahang in 1888, where it encounters similar the Straits Settlements. gold output. Tom Roberts is born. India consequently comes under the bouts of resistance. rule of the British Crown. J T U T T J T T T 1907 1906 1905 1904 1901 1897 1896 1892 1890 1888 1887 1886 1885 1884 1881 At a colonial conference in London, Modelled after the Young Men's e Malay College is established in Perak; it follows the English public school system.