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Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles FRS FRAS (5 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) [1] [2] was a British colonial official who served as the governor of the Dutch East Indies between 1811 and 1816 and lieutenant-governor of Bencoolen between 1818 and 1824.
It is now Indonesia's Ministry of Finance office on the east side of Lapangan Banteng (Waterlooplein). He also renamed Buffelsveld (buffalo field) to Champs de Mars (today Merdeka Square). Daendels' rule oversaw the complete adoption of Continental Law into the colonial Dutch East Indies law system, retained even until today in Indonesian legal ...
Parallel and Divergent Aspects of British Rule in the Raj, French Rule in Indochina, Dutch Rule in the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia), and American Rule in the Philippines. Radio address by Queen Wilhelmina on 7 December 1942. Dutch Proposals for Indonesian Settlement 6 November 1945. Dutch Proposals for Indonesian Settlement 10 Feb 1946.
Pages in category "British rule in Indonesia" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak KCB (29 April 1803 [3] – 11 June 1868), was a British soldier and adventurer who founded the Raj of Sarawak in Borneo. He ruled as the first White Rajah of Sarawak from 1841 until his death in 1868. Brooke was born and raised in India during the rule of the British East India Company.
Dutch East India Company rule: 1602–1799: British Bencoolen: 1685–1824: French and British interregnum ... Establishment of the Netherlands-Indonesia Union ...
The death of Mallaby had a significant impact on the British, because they considered that he was on a non-combat mission that day. Regardless of its exact details, Mallaby's death was a significant turning point in the hostilities in Surabaya, and a catalyst for the battle to come.
One point of dispute was the practice of masatia termed suttee by Europeans, the ritual self-sacrifice of relatives upon the death of a ruler. The Dutch demanded its abolition in keeping with European portrayals of indigenous rulers as despotic. The last recorded masatia took place in Tabanan in 1904 against Dutch protests. [2]