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Historical Timeline for Malaysia - A chronology of key events
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Malaysia Timeline[edit | edit source]

Date Event

From the Aborigines to the rise of Malacca[edit | edit source]

10,000 BC AD arrival of the first aborigines Orang Asli.
5,000 BC AD arrival of the first "Malays" from Sumatra (Indonesia).
1st century arrival of the first Indians, traders from high castes.
3rd century first contacts with Chinese traders.
4th century the Malays are "Hindu".
7th century Malaysia falls under the domination of the kingdom of Srivijaya of Sumatra, which extends its borders to Cambodia.
1403 a prince of Srivijaya, Iskander Shah, settles in Malacca.
1437 the third raja of Malacca converts to Islam, which spreads very quickly in Malaysia.

Successive colonizations: from the Portuguese to the British[edit | edit source]

1511 Alfonso de Albuquerque seizes Malacca.
1515 death of Alfonso.
1641 the Dutch seize Malacca.
1826 formation of the Straits Settlements which includes Penang, Malacca and Singapore.
1826 mass arrival of Chinese and Indian coolies.
1896 formation of a Federation of Malaysian States.

20th century and independence[edit | edit source]

1909 enlargement of the Federation by the Anglo-Siamese treaty
1914 new extension of the Federation.
December 8, 1941 Japanese invasion.
August 14, 1945 Japanese surrender.
August 31, 1957 independence of Malaysia. The United Malays National Organization (UMNO) is the ruling party.
August 31, 1963 extension of the Federation of Malaysia, enlarged by Singapore, Sabah and Sarawak.
August 9, 1965 Singapore is expelled from the Federation.
May 13, 1969 race riots in Kuala Lumpur. May 13 is remembered as an event that should never be repeated.
1981 Dr Mahathir Muhammad is elected Prime Minister.
1986 Muslim riots in the state of Sabah.
1993 some of the privileges of the 9 sultans are removed.

Growth and crises[edit | edit source]

1996 new record for economic growth (8.4%). Closure of the last Vietnamese camp.
1997-1998 the crisis hits South Asia and hits the country hard, causing a recession and forcing it to abandon many projects (airports, highways, etc.) planned in the country for the 2000s.
1999 Anwar Ibrahim, Deputy Prime Minister of Mahathir Mohamad, more liberal than the latter, is sentenced to 6 years in prison for sodomy and attempted corruption.
2000 Filipino pirates from the Abu Sayaf group take tourists hostage in the southeast of the state of Sabah (East Malaysia).
2001 rising political opposition, in particular the new Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS).
2004 the March 2004 elections confirm the predominance of UMNO, the party of the new Prime Minister, Abdullah Badawi. Only one state, Kelantan, remains under the control of the Islamist opposition.
2008 early elections see the enthronement as Prime Minister of Najib Tun Razak, son of Tun Abdul Razak, the second Prime Minister of independent Malaysia.
2011 the demonstrations of the Bersih ("Clean") movement paralyze the streets of KL and call for clean elections in 2013. The opposition parties unite against the UMNO, a party in their eyes more and more corrupt and removed from the concerns of part of the po
2013 the irruption of an armed group claiming to be from the Sulu Sultanate in Lahad Datu, on the east coast of Sabah, plunges the Malaysian authorities into indecision. The group is finally subdued, not without causing the death of several Malaysian policemen
2014 2 air tragedies four months apart brought mourning to Malaysia Airlines. On March 7, 2014, a Malaysia Airlines aircraft mysteriously disappeared with 239 people on board. The Boeing 777-200 MH370 connecting Kuala Lumpur to Beijing has still not been found
2015 Anwar Ibrahim, leader of the opposition, is returned to prison. 139 graves and 28 mass graves attributed to human traffickers were discovered in May in a remote area of Malaysia on the border with Thailand. Kuala Lumpur had always denied that migrant dete
2015 A magnitude 6 earthquake on Mount Kinabalu shakes Borneo and kills several people.
2016 Prime Minister Najib is shaken by a gigantic corruption case dubbed "1 MDB".

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