Born on April 5, 1883, Tan was the third son of Tan Keong Ann, who had seven sons and daughters, and the fifth-generation Peranakan Chinese Malaysian living at 111, Heeren Street () in Malacca.

* In the upcoming film Prince of Malacca, a Wall Street billionaire hedge fund manager, after seeking nadi astrology in India, is getting into a double deal by becoming a CIA ’ s intelligence officer with a special directive from the President of the United States of America to detect a drug cartel in Southeast Asia, in an exchange for using space and satellite technology to locate an island in the Strait of Malacca where in a tribal community his lover of previous birth is born as a beautiful dancer.

The walk is using the Malacca well known Jonker Street and was provided 72 business site where 30 sites will sell food and beverage while the rest is general requirement in the area besides providing stage to enable any show or cultural shows held.

W. E. Horley at the temporary premises of an unused pork market in Malacca Street.

Clarke Street, located next to Clarke Quay, was officially named in 1896, and was originally two streets known simply as East Street and West Street in north Kampong Malacca.

After arriving in Portuguese Malacca in October of that year and waiting three months in vain for a ship to Makassar, he gave up the goal of his voyage and left Malacca on 1 January 1546, for Ambon Island where he stayed until mid-June.

Other pilgrimage centres include Saint Francis Xavier's birthplace in Navarra, Church of Il Gesu, Rome, Malacca ( where he was buried for 2 years, before being brought to Goa ), Sancian ( Place of death ) etc.

The Port of Singapore is the busiest port in the Indian Ocean, located in Strait of Malacca where it meets the Pacific.

The sailors later established posts at Goa in 1510, and conquered Malacca in 1511, driving the Sultan to the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula from where he kept making raids on the Portuguese.

Further, the distance is only moderate from this Region of Brazil to Malacca, where St. Thomas was crowned with martyrdom .”.

From the fifteenth century, Ayutthaya showed an interest in the Malay Peninsula, where the great trading port of Malacca contested its claims to sovereignty.

In Indonesia, sepak takraw was spread from nearby Malacca across the strait to Riau islands and Riau area in Sumatra as early as 16th century, where it is also called as Sepak Raga in local Malay tongue, at that time some of Sumatran areas were part of Malacca sultanate.

They sailed for Malacca, where the Portuguese put them on a ship bound for Lisbon.

Tunku called for an emergency meeting at UMNO in Malacca where he asked for financial help.

The rendang making spread to regional Malay culture, to Mandailing, Riau, Jambi, across the strait to Malacca and Negeri Sembilan where large numbers of overseas Minangkabau resides.

The two squadrons sailed together, arriving at Malacca on 1 June, where they made contact with a division of troops from Bengal under Lieutenant-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty, escorted by Commodore Broughton aboard the 74-gun.

: Oh Malacca, where there's always freshness,

In late 1964 the 1st Battalion deployed to Malaysia, which had only been formed the previous year, where it joined the 28th Commonwealth Brigade, and was based in Camp Terendak, Malacca.

With a few junior officers and some local Europeans, Bennett commandeered a sampan at gunpoint and crossed the Strait of Malacca to the east coast of Sumatra, where they transferred to a launch in which they sailed up the Jambi River.

En route, he called at Madras where, in a little less than three months, he met Mrs Elizabeth Braun, née Martin ( 1794 – 1874 ), marrying her the day before he sailed to Malacca.

Medhurst was ordained at Malacca in 1819, and engaged in missionary labours, first at Penang, then at Batavia-and finally, when peace was concluded with China in 1842, at Shanghai where he founded the London Missionary Society Press ( 墨海書館 ) together with William Muirhead, Joseph Edkins, and William Charles Milne.

The British sought to depopulate Malacca and as a result many Eurasians and other people moved north to thriving Penang ( where other Eurasians fleeing Phuket or moving from Kedah also settled ) and later south to Singapore as it grew in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

From Java Milne made his way to Malacca, where he received equal kindness from the authorities.

First, they sailed from Malacca along the Muar River to reach Jempol River, where they have to pull the boats on shore for a short distance to get into the Serting River.

Leong Yew Koh, was a KMT major general who became a cabinet minister and later became governor of Malacca ; Malaysia's first minister of finance, Tun Henry H. S.

The celebrated Tun Perak, the Malacca Sultanate's greatest Bendahara, came from Klang and became its territorial chief.

Not to be confused with Bendahara Tun Ali ( the son of Mani Purindan ), the Bendahara of Melaka and the uncle of Muzaffar Shah of Malacca.

Not to be confused with Tun Mutahir of Malacca, who lived between the 15th to 16th centuries.

Another donation of S $ 1. 5 million was made for the purpose of acquiring two other houses on Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock in Malacca for the conservation and promotion of Peranakan architecture and culture in Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia.

According to the Malay Annals, the Portuguese army, led by Afonso de Albuquerque, launched a second assault on Malacca ( during the reign of Sultan Ahmad Shah ), the first being repulsed by the late Bendahara Tun Mutahir.

Under Tun Perak's service which spanned several sultans, Malacca reached its height in the late 15th century.

* Tun Perpatih Tulus, Bendahara of Malacca

* Tun Perpatih Sedang, Bendahara Sri Wak Raja, Bendahara of Malacca

* Tun Perpatih Putih, Bendahara Paduka Tuan, Bendahara of Malacca

* Tun Perak, Bendahara Paduka Raja, Bendahara of Malacca

* Tun Mutahir, Bendahara Seri Maharaja, Bendahara of Malacca

* Tun Tepok, Bendahara Paduka Tuan, Bendahara of Malacca

Tun Ledang Shah ( 1234 – 1463 ) was a mythical but probably based on a real character in the ancient Malay history who was assumed to live during the 13th century Srivijayan Empire till the 15th century Sultanate of Malacca.

Indonesian 15th century records indicate the influence of Princess Darawati, a Cham, in influencing her husband Kertawijaya, Majapahit's seventh ruler, similarly to Parameshwara of Malacca, to convert the Majapahit royal family to Islam.

Peranakans, known as " Phuket Babas " in the local tongue, constitute a fair share of members Chinese community, particularly among those who have family ties with the Peranakans of Penang and Malacca.

Malacca is the first city in Southeast Asia to be taken by a Western nation, gaining home rule only in 1957 when it becomes part of Malaysia.

Shortly after, he finally departed from Singapore for Malacca, Penang and Calcutta en route back home to England.

In 1511, soon after the Portuguese conquest of Malacca, knowing of Siamese ambitions over Malay, Afonso de Albuquerque immediately sent him in a diplomatic mission to the court of the King of Siam Ramathibodi II, traveling in a Chinese junk returning home.