Timeline History Of Malaysia
History of malaysia the history of malaysia is a relatively recent offshoot of the history of the wider malay indonesian world.
Timeline history of malaysia. Malaysia was under british rule for 186 years. Until 1405 the following superpowers reigned over the peninsula. It conquered peninsular malaysia southern thailand and the eastern cost of sumatra and malacca became a very important port in southeast asia.
Create a timeline now. Portugese seize melaka 1511. 1963 british colonies of sabah.
1957 federation of malaya becomes independent from britain with tunku abdul rahman as prime minister. A chronology of key events in the history of malaysia. Among the first signs of human life found in present day malaysia was a skull found in sarawak in the 1950s dating to 40 000 years ago.
Culturally and linguistically there was until recent times little to distinguish the territories which now constitute malaysia from the lands of the malay archipelago. Malasia under british rule 1771 1957. 700s 1700s 700 1100 most of the malay peninsula was under the buddhist srivijaya empire based near palembang 1400s prince parameswara founded malacca 1409 admiral cheng ho of china arrived in malacca 1511 portuguese captured malacca the center of the east indian spice trade 1641 dutch and their allies took over malacca built a famosa fortress.
Gangga negara was founded by a son of merong mahawangsa. About 10 000 years ago the orang asli comparable to malay aboriginals left from southwest china to the peninsula we now call west malaysia. The most prominent of these is the main range which is about 300 miles 480 km long and has peaks exceeding 7 000 feet 2 100 metres.
To read about the background to these events see history of malaysia 2nd century. Strictly the name malaysia is a modern concept created in the second half of the 20th century. However contemporary malaysia regards the entire history of malaya and borneo spanning thousands of years back to prehistoric times as its own history and as such it is treated in this page.
Karst landscapes limestone hills with characteristically steep whitish gray sides stunted vegetation caves. This is a timeline of malaysian history comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in malaysia and its predecessor states. In 1511 portugese seized melaka an international spice trade center taking it from the malaysians.
Peninsular malaysia is dominated by its mountainous core which consists of a number of roughly parallel mountain ranges aligned north south.
