British Malaya · event 1 of 7

1896

Federal capital. The Federated Malay States are constituted with Kuala Lumpur as their capital — a town of about twenty thousand, forty years old, now running four Malay states on behalf of the British.

The British Malaya era

  1. 1896
  2. 1897
  3. 1909
  4. 1910
  5. 1922
  6. 1930
  7. 1939

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