History of Penang Malaysia

History of Penang began in 1786, when Captain Francis Light made an agreement with the Sultan of Kedah. He acquired Penang on behalf of the East Indies Company from the Sultan and in return, the company promised to provide security protection to Kedah from its strong neighbors.
Up to 1800, Light also managed to get a land area across the island. The area is called Province Wellesley (by the name of the Indian Governor) which is now called Seberang Perai.
Light named the island of Putera Wales Island as it dates it with the date of birth of the Prince. He has landed at the place now called Esplanade. At that time it was a swamp of swamps.
To clear the place he had loaded his cannon with silver and fired at the swamp forest to stimulate the work of clearing his staff faster.
A town was opened and named after George Town, in conjunction with the name of Prince Wales. The boundary of the area is the streets of Light Street, Chulia Street, Pitt Street and Jalan Bishop Street.
To encourage settlers, the port has been granted tax-free status and newcomers are allowed to claim the amount of land they can explain. From an uninhabited island, its population grew to 10,000 by the end of the century.
Penang is a trading place for tea, spices (cloves and nutmegs from local farms), china, black pepper from Acheh and textiles from India. Later, regional trade expanded with tin and rubber.
It became the intersection of a great civilization, a place of east clash. Merchants and settlers come from Europe, India, China, the Malay Archipelago, Thailand and Burma.
The independent and independent British port is more attractive than the Dutch trading stop which has strict rules and taxes.
Europeans live in Light Street, the Serani people of Kedah and Phuket live on Bishop Street and Church Street (Church Street). The Chinese traders of the Straits from Kedah and Melaka who came here to find new opportunities have concentrated on China Street while Indian settlements settled on Chulia Street.
In the early 1800s, George Town had grown with an additional two more roads - the Armenian Street occupied by the Armenians and Acheen Street, where the Achehs, Sumatra and Malays lived.
In 1832, Penang became part of the Straits Settlements with Malacca and Singapore.
In addition to being a commercial and place of opportunity, Penang is also a free and safe place for its residents - Malays off Siamese attacks in Kedah, the Serans run away from religious oppression in Southern Thailand, the persecuted Chinese Manchu and Southern Indians leaving a poor and disputed country.
Penang was under the British Colonial rule until 1957 when it gained independence under the Federation of Malaya. It was inhabited by Japan from 1941 to 1945. In 1963 it became part of Malaysia when Sabah and Sarawak entered the group.

Source: BIRO PENERANGAN NEGERI PULAU PINANG.

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