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    The North Borneo Chartered Company (NBCC), also known as the British North Borneo Company (BNBC) was a British chartered company formed on 1 November 1881...
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    Provisional Association was replaced by the North Borneo Chartered Company. The granting of a royal charter worried both the neighbouring Spanish and Dutch...
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    of North Borneo was the appointed head of the government of North Borneo. Originally the Governor was appointed by the North Borneo Chartered Company, which...
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    Company) (3 February 1898). "North Borneo Chartered Company: North Borneo Railway; The first train in North Borneo". British North Borneo Chartered Company:...
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    created by the British Government upon the cession of North Borneo from the North Borneo Chartered Company. The appointment was made by King George VI, and...
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    Mat Salleh Rebellion (category North Borneo)
    major armed disturbances against the British North Borneo Chartered Company administration in North Borneo, now the Malaysian state of Sabah. It was instigated...
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    northern Borneo. Once the protocol had been ratified, the British North Borneo Chartered Company administered North Borneo, and in 1888, North Borneo became...
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    North Borneo (Chartered) Company's government was abolished after the conclusion of discussions between the Colonial Office and the Chartered Company...
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    seaport. In 1898, the British set up a settlement in Tawau. The North Borneo Chartered Company (BNBC) accelerated growth of the settlement's population by...
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    moved to North Borneo to work under the North Borneo Chartered Company as an administrative officer. He entered the service of the company and becomes...
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    Rakyat is Semporna. Semporna was founded soon after the British North Borneo Chartered Company established Sandakan, and initially settled by Chinese traders...
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  • New Calamba (category History of North Borneo)
    the British North Borneo Chartered Company. The Filipino settlement was proposed to be governed autonomously under British North Borneo. Rizal envisioned...
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    After the entry into force of the Royal Charter for the North Borneo Chartered Company on 1 November 1881, the company faced with the task of creating a functioning...
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    Antanum (category North Borneo)
    (1885-1915) was a Murut warrior from North Borneo who led a rebellion against the North Borneo Chartered Company (NBCC). Claiming to have supernatural...
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    History of Sabah (category History of North Borneo)
    syndicate and later emerged as British North Borneo under the management of the North Borneo Chartered Company. Sabah became a protectorate of the United...
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  • Archipelago Company 1853 Standard Chartered 1881 British North Borneo Company 1886 Royal Niger Company 1888 Imperial British East Africa Company 1889 British...
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    William Cowie (merchant) (category North Borneo)
    businessman who helped establish British North Borneo and was Chairman of the British North Borneo Company. Born on 8 April 1849, Cowie was the oldest...
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    The North Borneo War Monument (Malay: Tugu Peringatan Perang Borneo Utara) is a monument that was erected on 8 May 1923 by the North Borneo Chartered Company...
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  • the North Borneo Chartered Company; the involvement of William Clark Cowie become crucial for the establishment of railway systems in North Borneo. Already...
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    Alfred Dent (category North Borneo)
    May 1882, the British North Borneo Company, also known as the North Borneo Chartered Company. Dent became head of the firm of Dent Brothers and Co, merchants...
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    West, a railway engineer for the North Borneo Chartered Company. Weston is one of the towns along the Pan Borneo Highway. The original name of the settlement...
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    Brunei (category Borneo)
    installed him as the White Rajah, and it ceded Sabah to the British North Borneo Chartered Company. In 1888, Brunei became a British protectorate and was assigned...
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  • protectorate of North Borneo was sent via Labuan or Singapore, using postage stamps of the Straits Settlements. After the North Borneo Chartered Company was founded...
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    William Burgess Pryer (category North Borneo Chartered Company administrators)
    with the supervisory board of the North Borneo Chartered Company to acquire his estate, about 20 kilometres north of Sandakan along with a further property...
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  • Governor of Labuan (category History of North Borneo)
    London. When the administration was taken over by the North Borneo Chartered Company in 1890, the company became responsible for the appointment of the governors...
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    protectorate of Spain in 1851. North Borneo was eventually given to the British through the North Borneo Chartered Company after a lease agreement was signed...
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    Hatton who died during his expedition to Segama River, the North Borneo Chartered Company announced the establishment of a memorial briefly after his...
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    Hood Treacher, the first governor of North Borneo under the North Borneo Chartered Company, moved the company's headquarters to a small bay in Marudu...
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    which stipulated that North Borneo was either ceded or leased (depending on translation used) to the British chartered company in return for payment of...
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  • of the British North Borneo Chartered Company from 1895 to circa 1905. The enigmatic Mat Salleh led the 1897 attack on the Company's fort on Gaya island...
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