1894 Rare coin Straits Settlements British colony,Queen Victoria,silver On 28 January 1819, an expeditionary force was landed in Singapore under the command of Thomas Stamford Raffles, governor of the British colony of Bencoolen on the west coast of Sumatra, who signed an agreement with the Temengung Sultanate of Riau Johor to establish a British trading station in Singapore (in February of the same year, the agreement was confirmed by the Sultan of Riau Joho). Under the British-Netherlands Agreement signed in London on 17 March 1824, Malacca passed to the United Kingdom from the Netherlands, and the Netherlands recognized Britain's right to Singapore. In 1826, all British possessions in Malaya (Penang, Malacca and Singapore) were merged to form the fourth, Eastern Presidency of British India, named Straits Settlements. Straits Settlements - settlement on the Straits, meant Malacca Strait).
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