Person1781–1826
Stamford Raffles
British colonial administrator: Lieutenant-Governor of Java (1811–1816) and founder of British Singapore (1819). Sources give his date of birth as 5 or 6 July 1781.
- Dates
- between 5 July and 6 July 1781 – 5 July 1826
- Events
- 1 event
- Regions
- Southeast Asia and Oceania
- In the threads
- The world in the Age of Revolution, French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars
Events
- British conquest of Java4 August – 18 September 1811 · Southeast Asia and Oceania
Often together with
British East India CompanyFirst French EmpireJan Willem JanssensUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland