Tin & the Confluence · event 3 of 8

1868

Yap Ah Loy. A Hakka immigrant who arrived in Malaya at seventeen becomes Kapitan Cina of Kuala Lumpur at thirty. He holds the town, runs the mines, and effectively builds the place. The temple he founded still stands in Chinatown.

The Tin & the Confluence era

  1. 1857
  2. 1859
  3. 1868
  4. 1870
  5. 1874
  6. 1880
  7. 1881
  8. 1886

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