Year
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World History
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Local History
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Family History
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| 1606 |
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The Dutch, under Admiral Matelieff de Jonge, team up with the Sultan
of Johor and attack Malacca. After a three-month seige troops arrive
from Goa and Malacca is saved by the Portuguese
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| 1621 |
An area of land in the Hudson River Valley known as Nieuw Nederland
was granted by Holland to the Dutch West India Company (WIC)
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| 1624 |
New Amsterdam was founded on Manhattan Island and later became New
York City
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| 1641 |
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The Dutch captures Melaka from the Portuguese
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| 1648 |
The building of the Taj Mahal in India was completed
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| 1650 |
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The Stadhuys was built as the official residence of the Dutch Governors
in Melaka
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| 1652 |
The Dutch settlement in Cape Town, the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
was established by Jan van Rieback
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| 1656 |
The Dutch took Colombo (Ceylon) from the Portuguese
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| 1662 |
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Jan van Riebeeck became Gonernor of Melaka
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| 1664 |
The Dutch region of land in the Hudson River Valley was seized by
England and it was divided into the two colonies of New York and New
Jersey
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| 1665 |
Begining of the Second Anglo-Dutch Wars
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| 1668 |
The Dutch entered in a Triple Alliance with England and Sweden to
halt the French invasion of Spanish Netherlands
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| 1672 |
Johan DeWitt and his brother Clornelis Dewitt were murdered at The
Hague
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| 1677 |
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Jan de Wit was born at Nieuw York, Nieuw Nederland
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| 1689 |
William III (also known as William of Orange) became King of England
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| 1695 |
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Cheng Hoon Teng Templee is founded by the Kapitan China, Li Kup
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| 1700 |
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Jan de Wit arrives at Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (thus begins
the line of the de Wit family of South Africa)
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| 1707 |
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Jan de Wit is married to Maria, "voordogter" of Anna Pieters, of Batavia
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| 1710 |
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St. Peter's Church was built in Melaka by the Catholic Portuguese
descendants
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| 1716 |
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Petrus Johannes de Wit (son of Jan de Wit) was born in Cape Town,
South Africa
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| 1726 |
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Francois Valentyn writes about the history of Melaka in "Valentyn's
Account of Malacca" from his work 'Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien' and
was published in Amsterdam
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| 1728 |
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Melaka's Kampung Hulu Mosque, the oldest Mosque in Malaysia still
standing was built
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| 1729 |
Catherine the Great was born in Rusia
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| 1753 |
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The building of Melaka's Chrish Church (formerly was the Dutch Reformed
Church) was completed
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| 1755 |
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Jan de Wit dies at South Africa
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| 1756 |
Mozart was born in Austria
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| 1759 |
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Adriaan Koek was born in Melaka
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| 1766 |
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Willem Adriaan de Wit (grandson of Jan de Wit) was born in Cape Town,
South Africa
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| 1769 |
James Watt patented the Steam Engine
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| 1770 |
Beethoven was born in Germany
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| 1774 |
King Louis XV of France died and was succeeded by Louis XVI
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| 1778 |
Herman Cornelis de Witt died, bringing an end to the lineage of the
famous de Witts of Dordrecht, the Netherlands
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| 1786 |
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Cap. Francis Light founded the English settlement in Penang
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| 1793 |
King Louis XVI died at the guilotine
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| 1795 |
Cape Town was captured by British forces during the Napoleonic wars
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Melaka was captured by the English form the Dutch after only a token
resistance. Melaka was taken to prevent it from falling into French
hands during the Napoleonic wars
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| 1796 |
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Petrus Johannes de Wit (great-grandson of Jan de Wit) was born in
Cape Town, South Africa
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| 1797 |
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Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir or better known as Munshi Abdullah was born
in Malacca
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| 1802 |
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End of the first English rule of Melaka and retaken over by the Dutch
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| 1806 |
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Under Captain William Farquar, the English begin demolishing A Famosa
fort and plan to transfer the city's population to Penang
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| 1807 |
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The A Famosa was destroyed by Cap. William Farquhar
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| 1808 |
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Adriaan Koek was given the title Captain of the Civil Guards and was
granted land outside the Trankerah gate by the British Governor of Melaka,
William Faruhar. Stamford Raffles signs an agreement with Sultan Hussin
Mohamed Shah, Sultan of Johor, which hands over Singapore to the East
India Company. Hussain Shah moves to Melaka
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| 1810 |
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Sir Stamford Raffles arrived in Melaka as an Agent of the Governor-General
of India to the Malay States
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| 1811 |
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Begining of the second English rule of Melaka
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| 1812 |
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Adriaan Koek became President of the Melaka Court of Justice
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| 1814 |
Cape Town became the capital of the British Cape Colony
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| 1815 |
Battle of Waterloo was fought near Belgium
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| 1816 |
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Petrus Johannes de Wit arrives at Melaka (thus begins the line of
the DeWitt family of Melaka)
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| 1818 |
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English returns Melaka to Dutch rule under the Treaty of Vienna after
the Napoleonic Wars and the opening of the Anglo-Chinese College in
Melaka
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| 1819 |
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The British establish Singapore as a trading centre
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| 1820 |
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Petrus Johannes de Wit was married to Jacobina Elizabeth Koek
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| 1821 |
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Gesina Maria de Wit was born in Melaka
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| 1823 |
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Adriaan Koek became Acting Dutch Governor of Melaka
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Magdalena Johanna de Wit was born at Melaka
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| 1824 |
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Adriaan Koek died and was burried in Melaka. The Anglo-Dutch Treaty
which separates Dutch claimed territories from the British gives Bencoolen,
in Sumatra, to the Dutch and Malacca to the English
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| 1825 |
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The permanent transfer of Melaka to Great Britain
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Willem Adriaan de Wit was born in Melaka
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| 1826 |
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Malacca, Penang and Singapore are incorporated as the Straits Settlements
of the India government under the British
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| 1827 |
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Philip de Wit was born at Melaka but died the following year
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| 1830 |
World's first railroad opens between Liverpool and Manchester
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| 1831 |
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Petrus Johannes de Wit died at Batavia
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| 1840 |
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Munshi Abdullah began writing his autobiography called "Hikayat
Abdullah"
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| 1848 |
Karl Marx publishes the Communist Manifesto
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| 1859 |
Chales Darwin publishes Origin of the Species
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| 1867 |
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Straits Settlements become a Crown Colony under the Colonial Office
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| 1868 |
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Jacobina Elizabeth Koek died and was buried at Melaka at the vault
of the Koek family on St Paul's hill
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| 1885 |
The first automobile was built in Germany
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| 1886 |
Burma was made a province of British India
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Willem Adriaan de Witt died of a heart attack. (This was the first
time the family name was changed to DeWitt)
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| 1892 |
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John Charles DeWitt was born in Selangor
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| 1895 |
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Melaka found a commercially successful crop when Tan Chay Yan first
started planting rubber trees
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| 1900 |
The Boxer Rebellion in China
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| 1901 |
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The Queen Victoria Fountain is erected. Made of English marble, it
commemorates the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, (1837-1897)
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| 1903 |
The first aeroplane was flown by the Wright brothers
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| 1905 |
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A railroad track was constructed to connect Melaka with the main Peninsular
system at Tampin but this track no longer exist now.
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| 1906 |
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Mary Olive Faith Richter was born in Rangoon, Burma
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| 1909 |
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John Charles DeWitt held his first job as a clerk at the Gali Rubber
Estate in Raub, Pahang
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| 1914 |
The begining of World War 1 in Europe
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John Charles DeWitt was employed as Signalman with the Federated Malay
States Railways
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| 1918 |
The end of World War 1 in Europe
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| 1919 |
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Joseph Louis DeWitt was born
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| 1921 |
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Ruby Beatrice DeWitt was born
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| 1922 |
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Albert Horace DeWitt was born in Penang
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| 1926 |
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The Straits Settlement was formed by the British
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John Charles DeWitt joined the Singer Sewing Machine Company
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| 1929 |
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Helen Pearly DeWitt was born in Penang
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| 1930 |
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The British controlled the entire Malay Peninsular
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| 1935 |
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The Portuguese Settlement was established in Ujong Pasir, Melaka
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| 1939 |
The begining of World War 2 in Europe
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| 1941 |
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Japanese Imperial Forces invades Malaya
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Some time during the Japanese occupation of Malaya,Joseph Louis DeWitt
was taken to work on the Death Railway but managed to escape and returned
home
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| 1945 |
The end of World War 2 with the surrender of the Axis forces
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Japanese Imperial Forces surrenders and returns Malaya to the British
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| 1949 |
Indonesia gained independence from the Netherlands
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| 1952 |
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Albert Horace DeWitt was married to Irene Koh at St Peters Church
Melaka
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| 1954 |
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John Charles DeWitt retires from the Singer Sewing Machine Company
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| 1956 |
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Malaysia's 1st Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, announces the news
of impending independence to 50,000 people gathered on the Padang Pa'lawan,
in Melaka
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| 1957 |
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Malaya gains independence from Great Britain. The last British Resident
Commissiooner of Melaka, H. G. Hammett, hands the instrument of independence
to the first local Governor, on 31st August
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| 1962 |
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Dorothy DeWitt was born in Melaka
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| 1963 |
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Malaya changed its name to Malaysia
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| 1965 |
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Singapore broke away from Malaysia
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| 1967 |
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Dennis Dewitt was born in Melaka
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| 1968 |
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Mary Olive Faith DeWitt nee Richter died and was buried in Melaka
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| 1969 |
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Race Riots began in Kuala Lumpur but because of Melaka's long time
experience of foreign influences, less tension was felt in Melaka.
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| 1971 |
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Ruby Beatrice Pereira nee DeWitt died and was buried in Johor Bahru
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| 1976 |
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John Charles DeWitt died and was buried in Melaka
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| 1984 |
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A modern replicate of Sultan Mansur Shah's palace was opened as a
cultural museum
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| 1989 |
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Proclaimation of Melaka as the Historical City by the Prime Minister
of Malaysia
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| 1994 |
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Albert Horace DeWitt died and was buried in Melaka
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| 1995 |
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Dennis DeWit married Lizianna Claudine Sequerah at St Peters Church,
Melaka
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| 1996 |
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Proclaimation of Melaka as the Cultural State by the Deputy Prime
Minister of Malaysia
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| 1997 |
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Helen Pearly Robless nee DeWitt died and was buried in Melaka; Avery
Faith DeWitt was born in Selangor and baptised at St Peters Church,
Melaka
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| 1999 |
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Dennis & Claudine DeWitt created this family website
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