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  • Thumbnail for St Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore
    Mission was initiated on 25 June 1856, and the first Anglican evangelical outreach in Singapore was launched from the church. In 1869, the church was transferred...
    21 KB (1,906 words) - 10:12, 10 December 2024
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    the Police Act of 1856 (and passed in 1857), in response to calls for a full-time dedicated police officer to helm the police force in response to escalating...
    5 KB (238 words) - 01:51, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Singapore
    state of Singapore dates back to its founding in 1819; however, evidence suggests that a significant trading settlement existed on the island in the 14th...
    110 KB (12,450 words) - 16:22, 9 December 2024
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    Hans Hermann Eschke (category 1856 births)
    Hermann Eschke (10 November 1856 in Berlin – 19 July 1904 in Singapore) was the first German Consul General in Singapore. Eschke was the son of Professor...
    7 KB (713 words) - 13:55, 8 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for René Michel Marie Fée
    René Michel Marie Fée (category 1856 births)
    February 1856 – 20 January 1904) was a French Catholic missionary who served as Bishop of Malacca-Singapore from 1896 to 1904. Fée was born in Ambrières...
    5 KB (404 words) - 14:29, 12 December 2024
  • English-medium school. In May 1839, the first wing extension was completed, and the second at the end of 1841. In 1856, the Singapore Institution Free School...
    53 KB (5,228 words) - 07:07, 30 November 2024
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    George P. Owen (category 1856 births)
    Owen (1856 — 23 May 1928) was the secretary of the Singapore Cricket Club and the Singapore Turf Club and a big-game hunter. Owen came to Singapore in 1879...
    3 KB (294 words) - 08:15, 21 May 2024
  • governors of Singapore were the political leaders of Singapore during its pre-independence phase in the history of Singapore. The Resident of Singapore ruled...
    24 KB (252 words) - 16:43, 29 November 2024
  • Thomas de Multon Lee Braddell (category 1856 births)
    Braddell was born in Province Wellesley on 25 November 1856. He was educated at Brighton College, and Worcester College, Oxford. In 1879 he was called...
    5 KB (391 words) - 14:31, 12 December 2024
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    Johnston's Pier (category Transport infrastructure completed in 1856)
    situated at Collyer Quay, Singapore, where it stood from the mid-1850s to the mid-1930s. After the establishment of Singapore as a Strait Settlements port...
    7 KB (610 words) - 19:19, 20 November 2024
  • seeds from Singapore to Brazil, and with the prosperity leveraged by the Japanese, the population of the municipality more than tripled in twenty years...
    168 KB (18,765 words) - 04:54, 1 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Uniforms of the Singapore Police Force
    introduced in 1856 were also in the same colour. The earliest law enforcement officers in the fledgling colony of Singapore wore no uniforms, until in 1856, when...
    16 KB (2,350 words) - 04:40, 2 September 2024
  • The resident councillor of Singapore was a high ranking government civil position in colonial Singapore during the Straits Settlements era. It was second...
    20 KB (282 words) - 00:35, 7 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Singapore Post
    by boat. After 1856, a footbridge was constructed across the river and a toll of 1⁄4 cent was levied. As trade flourished in Singapore and both postal...
    17 KB (1,790 words) - 09:56, 2 December 2024
  • the IAU's naming conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings...
    92 KB (419 words) - 07:42, 5 October 2024
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    Bhai Maharaj Singh (category 1856 deaths)
    colonial establishment in Punjab. He is also remembered as the first Sikh in Singapore on record, having been exiled there as punishment in the latter part of...
    51 KB (6,405 words) - 22:59, 28 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alocasia longiloba
    Alocasia longiloba (category Plants described in 1856)
    in the family Araceae. It is the namesake of a species complex. The complex has a widespread distribution; Guangdong, Hainan, and southern Yunnan in China...
    5 KB (267 words) - 11:14, 5 August 2024
  • Negros island Bulusan in Sorsogon Smith in Calayan Hibok‑Hibok in Camiguin Pinatubo in Zambales Musuan in Bukidnon Mount Isarog in Camarines Sur Mount Melibengoy...
    21 KB (623 words) - 03:21, 10 December 2024
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    William John Butterworth (category Administrators in British Singapore)
    CB (10 June 1801 – 4 November 1856) was the governor of the Straits Settlements from August 1843 to 21 March 1855. In 1851, when the Straits Settlements...
    3 KB (202 words) - 21:08, 28 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Armenians in Singapore
    her. Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy Cross I cling' Agnes' younger brother Joaquim P. Joaquim (1856-1902) became one of Singapore's most prominent...
    9 KB (1,057 words) - 17:36, 28 September 2024
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