History of Malaysia - The arrival of Europeans in Malaysia brought a dramatic change to the country.
Malaysia History - In 1511, the Portuguese captured Malaka and the rulers of the Melaka Sultanate fled south to Johor where they tried to establish a new kingdom.They were resisted not only by the Europeans but by the Acehnese, Minangkabau and the Bugis, resulting in the sovereign units of the present-day states of Peninsular Malaysia.
The Portuguese were in turn defeated in 1641 by the Dutch, who colonized Melaka until the advent of the British in the Dutch exerted any profound influence on Malay society.
The British acquired Melaka from the Dutch in 1824 in exchange for Bencoolen in Sumatra.
From their new bases in Malaka, Penang and Singapore, collectively known as the Straits settlements, the British, through their influence and power, began the
After World War II and the Japanese occupation from 1941-45, the British created the Malayan Union 1946.
This was abandoned in 1948 and the Federation of Malaya emerged in its place.
The Federation gained its independence from Britain on 31 August 1957.
Malaysia History - In September 1963, Malaya, Sarawak, Sabah, and initially Singapore united to form Malaysia, a country whose potpourri of society and customs derives from its rich heritage from four of the world's major cultures - Chinese, Indian, Islamic and Western.
Small Malayan kingdoms existed in the 2nd or 3rd centuries AD, when adventurers from India arrived and initiated more than 1,000 years of Indian influence.
About A.D. 1400, a group of Malay-speaking migrants came to the Malay
Led by a Sumatran prince called Paramesvara, these newly arrived immigrants established a commercial kingdom called Malacca and secured Chinese protection for the city-state.
The Malay Penisula separates the Indian Ocean from the South China Sea. In ancient times, the penisula was a convenient landing point for Indian and Chinese traders.
The north east monsoon (wind & rain) which last from December to March, brought sailing ships from India to the Malay Penisula.
They then waited for the southwest monsoon, which last from June to October, to continue their voyages to China.
By the middle of the 14th century Islam arrived in Malaya via traders and merchants from India and began to spread rapidly as the local nobles embraced it, the influence of the Hindu Javanese Majapahit Empire was also waning at the time.
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