Quote about the society
“The way societies evolve is by going from dictatorship to oligarchy to democracy to chaos and back to dictatorship.”
Plato—The Republic, 375 BC
“Chaotic systems come in two shapes. The weather, for example, is a level one chaotic system. History, markets and politics are level two chaotic system.”
Yuval Noah Hariri—Sapiens, 2014
Time Machine
To get a better picture of a particular time in history, these are the links I would recommend:
- Travelogue footage of Michael Rogge from
1912to2011. - The Travel Film Archive from
1900to1970. - Newsreel and documentaries archive by British Pathé from
1910to1984. - Big History Project
Timeline
802- 1431(years) Angkor Empire(Khmer)
849- 1297(years) Bagan Empire
1293- 1517(years) Majapahit Empire
1350- 1767(years) Ayutthaya Kingdom
1402 Malacca sultanates
1501- 1600 Spain dominated western europe in 16th century
1511 Portuguese in Malaysia
1641 Dutch in Malaysia
1817- 2020 (203 years) Cholera pandemic
France dominated 18th century
1859- 1945(86 years) Vietnam1893- 1949(56 years) Laos1953Cambodia
1869- 1948 (78 years) Mahatma Gandhi
1869 Suez international canals
1889- 2020 (131 years) Influenza pandemic
Great Britain dominated 19th century
1948Myanmar- India
- Sri Lanka
- Malaya
- Brunei
1900- 1920 Chinese and Indian immigrants coming to Malaya for labor works in plantation and mining
1903- 1990(87 years) Tunku Abdul Rahman
1913 Malay reservations lands Law
1914 Panama international canals
1914- 1918(4 years) World War I
1918- 2013(95 years) Nelson Mandela
1918- 1919 H1N1 spanish flu (The world’s 1st epidemic)
1922- 1991(69 years) Soviet Union/USSR (divided into 15 countries)
1923- 2015(92 years) Lee Kuan Yew
1923 Robert Kuok born
1924 Rowell Road Little India, Singapore
1925 Tun Mahathir born
1926 Queen Elizabeth born
1927- 2016(87 years) Former King of Thailand
1929- 1945(16 years) Anne Frank
1930- 1945(15 years) the Great Depression
1930- 2006(76 years) Grandpa
1930 Warren Buffet born
1938 Tun Daim born
1939- 1945(6 years) World War II
1945 Atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
1941- 1942 Japanese occupation of Malaya (left in 1945)
1945 Vietnam independence (from France)
1945- 2000(55 years) Kuomintang(KMT) rule in Taiwan until Chen Shui Bian
1945 Aung San Suu Kyi born
1945 Indonesia independence (from Dutch)
1946 North & South korea divided
1946 Grandma born
1947- 1991(44 years) Cold War
1947 India independence (from British)
1948 Sri Lanka independence (from British)
1948- 1994 South Africa apartheid policy (Ended by Nelson Mandela)
1949 Myanmar independence (from British)
1949 Laos independence (from France)
1949 People’s republic of China (communist party)
1949 Gennaro Contaldo born
1950- 1953(3 years) Korean War
1950s- 1960s Polio
1952 Malaya granted full citizenship to chinese immigrants born in malaya
1953 Cambodia independence (from France)
1955 Bill Gates born
1955- 1975(20 years) Vietnam War
1956- 1958(2 years) H2N2 Asian flu pandemic
1957 Malaya independence (from British)
1962- 1990(27 years) Nelson Mandela political imprison
1963 Michael Jordan born
1963 Malaysia Day
1964 Parents born
1964 Michelle Obama born
1965 Singapore independence (from Malaysia)
1966-1997 Rent Control Act Malaysia
1968- 1969 H3N2 Hong Kong flu pandemic
1969 Malaysia race riot
1970- 2018(48 years) Barisan National governed Malaysia
1970- 1990 Malaysia New Economy Policy
1975- 1979(4 years) Cambodia genocide(Khmer rouge)
1976 Saigon renamed to Ho Chi Minh City
1978 China open for tourism (maoist china ended)
1978- 1980 Oil shock
1979 China-Vietnam war
1981- 1991 Measles epidemic
1984 Brunei independence (from British)
1986 Chernobyl disaster
1987 Stock market collapsed 40% to 80%
1980- 1990 Japan bubble bursts
1989- 2010(15 years) Aung San Suu Kyi political imprison
1990- 2020(2nd wave) Bubble tea bandwagon effect
1991 Destruction of Berlin wall
1992 Myanmar (open for tourism)
1992 Cambodia government open door policy
1993 Czech Republic & Slovakia split
1998 Stock bubble
1999 Cambodia (open for tourism)
USA dominated 20th century
2000Dotcom crash
2001 Malaysia announced as Islam country by Tun Mahathir
2001- 2020(18 years) 911 attacks, US invaded Taliban, an Afghan peace deal is under way.
2002- 2004 SARS outbreak
2003 Japan economy started to rebound
2004 Sumatra earthquake & tsunami
2005- 2012 HIV/AIDS pandemic
2007- 2009 the Great Recession due to financial crisis (collateral debt + credit default swaps)
2009- 2010 H1N1/09 swine flu pandemic
2015- 2018 GST
2016 Cambridge analytica data scandal
2018 Malaysia general election won by opposition 1st in history
2018- 2020 North & South korea diplomatic relationships improved until 2020 cut off communication
2019 Saudi Arabia (open for tourism)
2019-2020 Australia bushfire
2019- 2020 Hong Kong protests
2019 Covid19 pandemic
China dominate 21st Century
2020
- UK brexit
- Malaysia political crisis
- China-Hong Kong tensions (HK security law)
- China-USA tensions (trade war)
- China-India tensions (borders military standoff)
- China-Canada tensions (Huawei case)
- China- Australia tensions (covid19, trade sanctions)
- Thai political protest
- Russia Minsk protest
- Indonesia omnibus law protest
- Year end flood in Terengganu, Kelantan, Pahang