Events
- 1 January - Visit Selangor Year 2000 officially begins.
- 1 January - Y2K passes without serious, widespread computer failures, as many experts and businesses had feared.
- January - The KLSE Composite Index rises to 1,000 points.
- 20 February - Kota Kinabalu is granted city status.
- 23 April - 21 people are kidnapped by the Philippine terrorist group Abu Sayyaf at Sipadan Island, Sabah.
- June - The Teluk Kemang MP by-election takes place, Barisan Nasional (BN) wins this election.
- 1 July - The Sauk arms heist occurs in Sauk, Perak. Many of Al-Mau'nah's gang members are arrested.
- August - Proton Waja, the very first Malaysian-designed car, is launched.
- 26 September - The first Malaysian micro satellite Tiung SAT is launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
- 10 October - Shah Alam is granted city status.
- November - Lunas state assemblyman, Dr Jose Fernandes is assassinated in Bukit Mertajam.
- December - Lunas DUN by-elections take place.
- 22 December - The 2000 Federal Territory of Putrajaya Agreement is signed at Istana Negara between Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah with Tengku Idris Shah (Regent of Selangor).
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“By many a legendary tale of violence and wrong, as well as by events which have passed before their eyes, these people have been taught to look upon white men with abhorrence.... I can sympathize with the spirit which prompts the Typee warrior to guard all the passes to his valley with the point of his levelled spear, and, standing upon the beach, with his back turned upon his green home, to hold at bay the intruding European.”
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