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The Singapore Bicentennial celebrations are launched to commemorate the founding of modern Singapore by Stamford Raffles 200 years ago. [42] [43] Ministry of Health reveals that personal data of about 14,200 people with HIV have been illegally disclosed. [44] 30 January Plans are unveiled to revamp Orchard Road. [45] [46]
A bicentennial or bicentenary is the two-hundredth ... Celebration of Mexican political ... Bicentennial of the Founding of Modern Singapore in 2019; See also ...
9 August - The National Day Parade (NDP) 2018 is held at the Float at Marina Bay for its second time after the NDP two years before was held at Singapore Sports Hub, therefore the following year's parade was held at Padang for Singapore's Bicentennial celebration.
In 2019, as part of events commemorating the bicentennial of the Founding of modern Singapore, numerous alterations have been made to and around the statue of Raffles such as using camouflage to make the statue 'disappear' into the backdrop of the buildings in Raffles Place on the south bank, [2] and erecting statues of Raffles's contemporaries ...
Singapore's Bicentennial [ edit ] On 5 June 2019, on Hari Raya Aidilfitri , Singapore President Halimah Yacob launched commemorative notes featuring Adnan along with 7 other historical Singaporean figures in a $20 commemorative notes marking Singapore's bicentennial celebrations, 1819–2019 edition.
The conquest of Singapore forces him to flee to the Malay Peninsula, eventually leading to the establishment of the Melaka Sultanate; the destruction of Singapore is instead blamed on a king known as Iskandar Shah, the fifth Raja of Singapura and fourth successor to Sang Nila Utama, and the island's conquerors are identified as Javanese of ...
Singapore Post issued stamps portraying Pillai on 28 February 2001 to commemorate his contributions to the Indian community and Singapore. [10] He was also featured as one of the stories under Singapore’s early pioneers in the Singapore Bicentennial in 2019.
The then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew decided to deliver a speech on 6 February to start the year-long series of celebrations, [35] corresponding to the date when the Treaty of Singapore was signed. The government did not only issue commemorative stamps [ 36 ] and gold coins [ 37 ] but also notably invited the British royal family to attend ...