Tin & the Confluence · event 5 of 8

1874

A Resident arrives. The Pangkor Treaty installs a British Resident in Selangor — formally an adviser to the Sultan, in practice the government. Frank Swettenham is the one who matters for Kuala Lumpur.

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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