On 13 September 1828 he arrived as the new commandant of Fort Wellington the settlement at Raffles Bay in the Northern Territory, and the following year was commander at King George's Sound in Western Australia.

Pillai was a government clerk from Penang who arrived in Singapore with Stamford Raffles on his second visit to the island in May 1819.

When Raffles ' expedition arrived in Singapore on 29 January 1819 he discovered a small Malay settlement at the mouth of Singapore River headed by a Temenggung ( governor ) of Johor.

Raffles ' expedition arrived in Singapore on 29 January 1819 ( although they landed on Saint John's Island the previous day.

The eight other injured workers who were working on top of the structure, were sent to the nearby Raffles Hospital before rescuers arrived.

When Raffles arrived in 1819, the population numbered about 150.

Modern Singapore was founded on 6 February 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles, an officer of the British East India Company and Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen, in an attempt to counter Dutch domination of trade in the East.

Raffles ' Regulations were most likely illegal as he was acting beyond the scope of his legal powers in making them – although he had power to place the factory at Singapore under the jurisdiction of Bencoolen, he was not vested with power to place the entire island under Bencoolen's control.

On 30 January 1819 Sir Stamford Raffles, an Englishman who was the Governor of Bencoolen ( now Bengkulu, Indonesia ), entered into a preliminary agreement with the Temenggung of Johor, Abdul Rahman Sri Maharajah, for the British East India Company to establish a " factory " or trading post on the island of Singapore.

In 1818, Sir Stamford Raffles was appointed as the governor of Bencoolen on western Sumatra.

Raffles, who was Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen ( now Bengkulu, Indonesia ), placed Singapore under Bencoolen's jurisdiction.

Communication with Raffles in Bencoolen and the East India Company in Calcutta were so poor that for more than three years, Singapore developed on her own with Farquhar at the helm.

In 1818, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles was appointed as the Lieutenant Governor of the British colony at Bencoolen.

Raffles had noble ambitions for Singapore's agricultural development, and had sent from Bencoolen spices like clove plants and nutmeg seeds to be planted in the garden.

It is thought Stamford Raffles passed through before he moved to Bengkulu in south Sumatra.

From Bengkulu Raffles, after relinquishing the Port to the Dutch, established the trade port that became Singapore.

Others have achieved fame by association with dishes or cocktails created on their premises, such as the Hotel de Paris where the crêpe Suzette was invented or the Raffles Hotel in Singapore, where the Singapore Sling cocktail was devised.

* 1819 – Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.

* The 1817 book on the history of the island, by Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore.

Singapore became numerically dominated by immigrant ethnic groups soon after Sir Stamford Raffles established a trading post on the island in 1819.

* January 29 – Sir Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.

In The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, the names of the signatoriess of the Lunar Declaration of Independence are studied ; but Room L of the Raffles Hotel, wherein the revolution was plotted, is still used as an ordinary hotel room, albeit with a plaque on the wall.

It is now generally thought that the aberrations occurred because of the 1815 ( April 5 – 15 ) volcanic Mount Tambora eruption on the island of Sumbawa, Indonesia ( then part of the Dutch East Indies, but under British rule during Napoleon's occupation of the Netherlands ), described by Thomas Stamford Raffles.

early part of the nineteenth century: Fort Dundas on Melville Island in 1824 ; Fort Wellington at Raffles Bay in 1829 ; and Victoria Settlement ( Port Essington ) on the Cobourg Peninsula in 1838.

Raffles was born on the ship Ann off the coast of Port Morant, Jamaica, to Captain Benjamin Raffles ( d. June 1797 ) and Anne Raffles ( née Lyde ).

Under the harsh conditions of the island, his wife, Olivia, died on 26 November 1814, an event that devastated Raffles.

Statue of Sir Stamford Raffles in Singapore, based on the original by Thomas Woolner

To circumvent the situation of having to negotiate with a sultan influenced by the Dutch, Raffles decided to recognise, on behalf of the British Crown, Hussein Shah as being the rightful ruler of Johor.

Raffles declared the foundation of what was to become modern Singapore on 6 February, securing the transfer of control of the island to the East India Company.

originated by Charles Chilton as a radio play, The Long Long Trail in December 1961, and transferred to stage by Gerry Raffles in partnership with Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop created in 1963, which was itself inspired by " The Donkeys ," Alan Clark's 1961 attack on Great War generalship.

During the autumn of 1992 Lamont became a press target in a string of largely fabricated stories: that he had not paid his hotel bill for " champagne and large breakfasts " from the Conservative Party Conference ( in fact his bill had been forwarded on for settlement ); that he was in arrears on his personal Visa credit card bill ( true ); that in June 1991 he had used taxpayers ' money to handle the fall-out from press stories concerning sex therapist Lindi St Clair ( Miss Whiplash ), who was using a flat he owned ( the Treasury contributed £ 4, 700 of the £ 23, 000 bill which had been formally approved by the Head of the Civil Service and the Prime Minister ; there was never any suggestion that he had ever met her ); and that he had called at a newsagent in a seedy area of Paddington late at night to purchase champagne and cheap " Raffles " cigarettes.

The British establishment of Singapore on the Malaya Peninsula in 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles exacerbated the tension between the two nations, especially as the Dutch claimed that the treaty signed between Raffles and the Sultan of Johore was invalid, and that the Sultanate of Johore was under the Dutch sphere of influence.

Mr. Blum currently serves as Chairman of the board of directors of CB Richard Ellis and is a director on the boards of directors of three other portfolio companies: Fairmont Raffles Holdings International Ltd., Current Media, L. L. C.

The name Borobudur was first written in Sir Thomas Raffles ' book on Javan history.

After seven months in the Southeast Asian country doing extensive psychiatric and legal evaluations, they underwent surgery on July 6, 2003, under the care of a large team of international specialists at Raffles Hospital, composed of 28 surgeons ( including world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson ) and more than 100 support staff working in shifts.

* Extensive underground networks exist around most major stations of the Mass Rapid Transit, such as the one at the Raffles Place MRT Station with direct underground connections to 19 buildings in the busy Raffles Place area.

On 19 March 2006, CapitaLand's Real Estate Investment Trusts, CapitaCommercial Trust and CapitaMall Trust jointly acquired the development from Raffles Holdings for S $ 2. 09 billion.

Ernest William Hornung ( 7 June 1866 – 22 March 1921 ), known professionally as E. W. Hornung ( nickname Willie ), was a poet and English author, most famous for writing the A. J. Raffles series of novels about a gentleman thief in late 19th century London.

Raffles Girls ' School was established on 4 March 1844 with six boarders and five scholars.

Rafflesia was found in the Indonesian rain forest by an Indonesian guide working for Dr. Joseph Arnold in 1818, and named after Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the leader of the expedition.

Noting it as a success and reporting it as such back to Raffles, Raffles sailed to Malacca in late 1818 to personally secure a British presence in the Riau area, especially Singapura, which was favoured by him both through the readings of Malayan histories and by Farquhar's explorations.

In 1818, Raffles managed to convince Lord Hastings, the then governor-general of India and his superior at the British East India Company, to fund an expedition to establish a new British base in the region.

In December 1818, Thomas Stamford Raffles invited them to accompany him on his journeys and pursue their collections in places, where he would have to go officially.