What the records say
- When
- 6 Feb 1819
- Kind
- Treaty
- Coordinates
- 1.29° N, 103.85° E
- Description
- Agreement to set up British trading post in Singapore
1819 Singapore Treaty
Establishment of Singapore as a British trading port
The signing of the Treaty of Singapore on 6 February 1819 is officially recognised as the founding of modern-day Singapore. The Treaty allowed the British East India Company to open up a trading post in Singapore, marking the beginning of a British settlement.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Treaty of Singapore, is signed between Hussein Shah of Johor and Sir Stamford Raffles of Britain, to create a trading settlement in Singapore”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page