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SHORT CHRONICLE
1780. Alexander Cornabé, forty-seventh Governor of the Moluccas. Ahral,
sixteenth Sultan of Ternate. 84 Patra Alam, seventeenth Sultan of Tidore. 85
1783. Tidorese revolution; Tidore taken by surprise and punished. Sultan Patra
Alam deposed and sent into exile on Java.
1784. Kamaludin, eighteenth Sultan of Tidore. 86
1793. J. Ekenholm, forty-eighth Governor of the Moluccas.
1796. Johan Godfried Budach, forty-ninth Governor of the Moluccas. Sarka or
Sarkan, seventeenth Sultan of Ternate.
1797. Sultan Kamaludin flees from Tidore to Ternate. [p. 167] The English come
to Ternate under E. Packenham and demand that the British protectorate be
acknowledged. After Budach’s refusal they leave for Menado. Nuku captures Tidore and
becomes the nineteenth Sultan of that state under the name of Mohamadanil Mabusi
Amirudin.
1798. Second demand for Ternate by the English, again refused by Budach.
1799. Third demand by the English under Commodore Hills; Budach refuses to
surrender Ternate. Willem Jacob Cranssen, fiftieth Governor of the Moluccas. 87
84 [p. 166, n. 1] In van der Crab: Achraal. In TKI, p. 472 note 57, van der Crab claims that this
Sultan came to the throne in 1793.
85 [p. 166, n. 2] The deed of investiture for this ruler was drawn up in Batavia. It was signed and
the oath was taken on July 17, 1780, at Castle Oranje on Ternate. Article 16 reads: “The King and
Nobles promise in their capacity as vassals to the Company, in its capacity as Liege Lord and
Protector, to send annually to the Governor-General and the Indies Councils, as a token of their
loyalty and obedience, and as homage, besides their letters, two male slaves, two female slaves, ten
cockatoos, and ten parrots with red heads, without the Company desiring more than that, as is
described in the letters of the King and the Nobles, and that these serfs and birds will be sent there
and given to the Governor or whoever is in authority on Ternate.”
Article 25 fixes the annual payments at 2,800 rijksdollars for the Sultan and Nobles of
Tidore, 362.5 for the officials of Maba, 387.5 for those of Weda, and 237.5 for those of Patani.
The appointment of this ruler took place in April 1780, after the death of Prince Gaigira, who
had been provisionally appointed Regent by the authorities at Ternate. Haga (1884, I:296) wrongly
writes of “Sultan” Gaigira, though a Sultan bearing this name is not known in the Sultanate of
Tidore.
86 [p. 166, n. 3] He was appointed at Batavia, in a deed of investiture signed on October 18 by the
Governor-General, Dr. W.A. Alting, and the Council. The next year he returned to Ternate.
87 [p. 167, n. 2] The heroic defense of Ternate under Governor Budach has been described in
detail by Leupe (BKI, p. 262). According to an old escutcheon, preserved at Ternate, Budach died
there in January 1800.
In recognition of the help given by the Ternatese, the Jogugu (as Major-Prang) Saptu and the
Marsaole (as Captain-Prang) Patuseranga received, to wear on the left breast, a silver shield with a
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