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| 1909, March 10 |
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| Great Britain gave up the system of extraterritoriality, in return for the cession of Kedah, Kelantan, Trengganu, and Perlis to the Malay States. | 1 |
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| 1910–25 |
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| RAMA VI (Vajiravudh). Educated in England, he continued the policy of modernization and westernization: irrigation projects, education, calendar reform, reduction of compulsory labor, etc. Vajiravudh was a writer, actor, and playwright, and he promulgated his nationalist ideas in public places and through the emerging public press. | 2 |
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| 1912 |
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| An early reaction to Vajiravudh's poor political judgment, however, came when a group of young military officers planned a coup. They claimed that reform was incomplete, and, influenced by developments in Russia (in 1905) and the Chinese revolution of 1911, they planned a revolution for April. Discovered in Feb., however, they were imprisoned. (See Thailand (Siam)) | 3 |
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