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In what year did Stamford Raffles sign the treaty that founded Singapore as a British trading post?
Raffles landed on Singapura on 28 January 1819 and signed the treaty with Sultan Hussein Shah on 6 February 1819, establishing a free-trade port at the entrance to the Straits of Malacca. 1786 is the British acquisition of Penang; 1824 is the Anglo-Dutch Treaty; 1839 is the start of the First Opium War.
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The Man Who Founded Singapore and Lost Almost Everything Else Stamford Raffles spent a decade governing Java, founded Singapore, and was the most important English Asianist of his generation. He lost his Sumatran governorship, his fortune, four of his five children, and most of his collection in a single bad year.
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