Mengikut sejarah, Bukit Malawati ini pernah ditakluki oleh Belanda dari tangan Sultan Ibrahim (Julai 1784). Setahun kemudian pada 28 Januari 1785, Sultan Ibrahim dengan bantuan adindanya, Dato' Penggawa Permatang Mahabijaya (Penggawa Tua) dan Bendahara Adb. Majid Pahang, telah menghalau Belanda dalam tempoh satu malam sahaja. Serangan yang bermula selepas waktu Isyak itu telah berjaya menawan bukit ini sebelum fajar subuh menyinsing. Di atas Bukit Malawati terdapat beberapa buah rumah pegawai-pegawai tinggi kerajaan, sebuah rumah rehat, rumah api dan kesan-kesan sejarah.
History Of Bukit Melawati (Melawati Hill)
Bukit Melawati (Melawati Hill) at Kuala Selangor was the administrative center and stronghold of the Selangor Sultanate in the late 18th and early 19th century. A heavily fortified fort once stood on the summit. It was built during the reign of Sultan Ibrahim from 1782 to 1826 to fight against the Dutch. Selangor had been sucked into the struggle between the Dutct amd the ruler of Johor and Riau.
The fort fell to the Dutch in 1784, renamed it "Altingsburd Fort" after they did not hold it for long. Sultar Dutch governor-general. Butn Ibrahim recaptured the fort in January 1785 in a daring night attack with the aid of warrior from Pahang and mercenaries from Permatang. The victory was significant. It was the first time that a local Sulatn had been able to retake his fort from a foreign power.
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In Bukit Melawati are found relics of the past, including the protective walls of the fort, the palace ground, a lighthouse, royal graves, seven walls, a flat stone used for beheading offenders, a 100-step ladder, a poisonous well and several cannons pointed at the moth of the Selangor River (Sungai Selangor). Bukit Melawati was designated a historical monument and historical site under Antiquities Act 1976 in 1977.
