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Was a chartered company established on 20 March 1602 by the States General of the Netherlands amalgamating existing companies into the first joint-stock company in the world. Over the next two centuries the company acquired large territories in America, Asia and Africa. The company was dissolved in 1799. The former territories owned by the VOC went on to become the Dutch East Indies.
Establishment
January 1604: Expansion of the Dutch East India Company in Indonesia by 1603.
Chronology
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Was a process of military conquest from 1609 to 1621 by the Dutch East India Company of the Banda Islands.
September 1609: In August, a peace favourable to the VOC was signed: the Bandanese recognised Dutch authority and monopoly on the space trade. That same year, Fort Nassau was built on Banda Neira to control the nutmeg trade.
May 1616: Ai conquered by netherlands.
November 1620: The Dutch proceeded to besiege the English fortress of Run for 1,540 days (over 4 years) and finally managed to conquer it in 1620, after which the English abandoned the island.
March 1621: The Dutch occupied Lontor and entire Banda Archipelago, suffering six dead and 27 wounded.
Was a global conflict between the Portuguese Empire and the Dutch Empire. The conflict primarily saw the Dutch companies invading Portuguese colonies in the Americas, Africa, and the East Indies.
January 1620: After conflict with the Dutch over the pepper trade in 1619, the Dutch East India Company Governor-General Jan Pieterszoon Coen took the port of Jayakarta from Banten. He founded Batavia (now Jakarta) on the ruins of this Javanese town, which became the centre of VOC operation and a serious rival for Banten, later contributing to its decline.
2.1.Operations in the Pacific and Indian Oceans
Were the military operations of the Dutch in the Pacific and Indian Oceans during the Dutch-Portuguese War.
January 1606: Amboina was captured by the Portuguese.
January 1625: The Dutch established a colony at Tayouan in 1624, present-day Anping in the south of Taiwan.
January 1641: The Siege of Malacca of 1641, after many attempts, delivered the city to the Dutch and their regional allies, crucially breaking the spinal cord between Goa and the Orient.
Were three military confrontations between the Dutch East India Company and the Mataram Sultanate on central Java between 1703 and 1755. The hereditary succession in Maratam was at stake, prompting the VOC to field its own candidates in an attempt to gain more influence in central and eastern Java.
3.1.First Javanese War of Succession
Was a struggle between Sultan Amangkurat III of Mataram and the Dutch East India Company who supported the claim of the Sultan's uncle, Pangeran Puger to the throne.
January 1709: Mataram ceded Priangan, Madura, Semarang the Dutch East India Company.
3.2.Third Javanese War of Succession
Was a civil war on the island of Java that led to the partition of the Mataram Sultanate.
February 1755: At the end of the Javanese Wars of Succession, Mataram was carved into three weak Vorstenlanden ("Princely Lands"), independent in name only, as a consequence of the divide and rule policy of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
February 1755: The kingdom of Mataram was divided in 1755 under an agreement signed in Giyanti between the Dutch under the Governor General Nicolaas Hartingh and rebellious prince Mangkubumi. The treaty divided nominal control over central Java between Yogyakarta Sultanate, under Mangkubumi, and Surakarta, under Pakubuwana.
Was the war of independence of the United States of America (at the time the Thirteen Colonies) against Great Britain.
4.1.Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
Was a conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Dutch Republic during the American Revolutionary War.
August 1781: Henry Botham, one of the directors, commandeered the fleet, and with 100 company soldiers sailed for Padang. On 18 August, Jacob van Heemskerk, the VOC chief resident at Padang, surrendered all of the west coast outposts without a fight, unaware that Botham's force was relatively weak.
4.1.1.Treaty of Paris (1783)
Was the treaty that officially ended the American Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain as well as various other related wars. The treaty set the boundaries between British North America and the United States.
Were a series of conflicts between France and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French Revolutionary Wars against the newly declared French Republic and from 1803 onwards the Napoleonic Wars against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They include the Coalition Wars as a subset: seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France - later the First French Empire - and its allies.
5.1.French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars - Theatre of war in the overseas colonies
The theatre of war in the overseas colonies during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
January 1796: British occupation of Malacca during the Napoleonic Wars (1795-1818).
January 1797: British forces captured the Maluku Islands in 1796.
January 1606: The Dutch East India Company allied with the Sultan of Ternate and conquered Ambon and Tidore.
January 1614: The Paji areas on Adonara contained three principalities, namely Adonara proper (centered on the north coast of the island), and Terong and Lamahala (on the south coast). Together with two principalities on Solor (Lohayong and Lamakera), they constituted a league called Watan Lema ("the five shores").
January 1614: The Watan Lema allied with the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in 1613.
January 1620: Territorial losses of the Dutch East India Company in Indonesia by 1619.
January 1620: Expansion of the Dutch East India Company in Indonesia by 1619.
January 1620: After conflict with the Dutch over the pepper trade in 1619, the Dutch East India Company Governor-General Jan Pieterszoon Coen took the port of Jayakarta from Banten. He founded Batavia (now Jakarta) on the ruins of this Javanese town, which became the centre of VOC operation and a serious rival for Banten, later contributing to its decline.
January 1625: The Dutch East India Company, led by Governor-General Jan Pieterszoon Coen, began establishing a base on Formosa in 1624. The bay where they settled eventually gave the entire island its name, becoming known as Dutch Formosa.
January 1636: In 1635 a contract was signed by the Dutch with the Sultanate of Banjarmasin.
January 1641: The Dutch (in the form of the Dutch East India Company) settled West Timor in 1640, forcing the Portuguese out to East Timor.
January 1642: Expansion of the Dutch East India Company in Indonesia by 1641.
January 1666: Makassaris conquered by the Dutch.
December 1669: The Bima Sultanate surrendered to the VOC on 8 December 1669 with an agreement signed in Batavia (Jakarta).
January 1671: The Dutch forced Banten to give up their control on Cirebon.
January 1693: The VOC, or Dutch East India Company, gained control of Bogor and Priangan Highlands in 1692, reducing the power of Banten and making it a protectorate. This marked a significant shift in the political landscape of West Java during that time.
September 1694: On September 21, 1694, a contractual agreement to establish new territorial borders was signed between the Kingdom of Bola'ang and the newly unified federation of Minahasan tribes, backed by the Dutch. Along Poigar river the northern border and along Buyat river its southerly counterpart. The border thus divided the westside territory for Bola'ang and the eastside territory for Minahasan people, which made the kingdom of Bola'ang lose all of its territories and subjects on the east side of the borders.
January 1700: All the kingdoms of Sumbawa Island are annexed by Dutch East India Company.
January 1701: Expansion of the Dutch East India Company in Indonesia by 1700.
January 1741: Expansion of the Dutch East India Company in Indonesia by 1740.
January 1746: The Surakarta Kraton was established in 1745 by Pakubuwono II. Surakarta Sunanate and Yogyakarta Sultanate are together the successors of Mataram Sultanate.
January 1753: In 1752, the Dutch East India Company annexed territories on western Borneo and southern Sumatra that were previously held by the Sultanate of Banten. This expansion was part of the Dutch colonial efforts in the region.
October 1771: The Pontianak Sultanate was founded in 1771 by al-Sayyid Syarif Abdurrahman al-Kadrie, a descendant of Imam Ali ar-Ridha. He led explorers from Hadhramaut to establish the sultanate in the region shown on the map.
January 1777: In 1776 the Fosjoen Tjoenthang (or M. Heshun) consolidated fourteen Chinese mining communities into a single body.
January 1778: The Lanfang Republic was a Chinese state and kongsi federation in Western Borneo established by a Hakka Chinese named Low Lan Pak in 1777.
January 1780: After the explorers arrived in Pontianak, they established the Kadariah Palace and received endorsement as the Sultan of Pontianak by the Dutch East India Company in 1779.
January 1781: Tidore was turned from an ally to a vassal and thus lost its independence.
January 1783: Expansion of the Dutch East India Company in Indonesia by 1782.
January 1788: Banjar became a Dutch protectorate.
Disestablishment
January 1800: The Dutch East India Company came under the administration of the Dutch government in 1800.
Selected Sources
Dutch East Indies Expansion. Wikipedia. Retrieved on 7 April 2024 on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dutch_East_Indies_Expansion.gif
Somers Heidhues, M.F. (2003): Golddiggers, Farmers, and Traders in the "Chinese Districts" of West Kalimantan, Indonesia, SEAP Publications, p.63
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