Dutch Bengal

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Was a directorate of the Dutch East India Company in Bengal.

Establishment

January 1628: In 1627, the Ottomans lost control of Aden and Lahej to the Zaidi Imamate.

Chronology

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1. Conquests of Aurangzeb

Expansion during the rule of Aurangzeb in the Mughal Empire.

January 1688: In 1687, the Dutch factory in Malda was taken over by the Mughal Empire.

2. American Revolutionary War

Was the war of independence of the United States of America (at the time the Thirteen Colonies) against Great Britain.

2.1.Fourth Anglo-Dutch War

Was a conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Dutch Republic during the American Revolutionary War.

July 1781: British occupation of Dutch Bengal.

May 1784: End of British occupation of Dutch Bengal.

3. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

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.

3.1.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.

July 1795: British occupation of Dutch Bengal.

August 1814: The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 restored Bengal to Dutch rule.

4. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 1636: From 1635 Dutch Bengal was administered by Dutch Coromandel.

January 1636: Foundation of the Dutch factory of Hougli.

January 1656: The territory of Dutch Bengal was administered by the Dutch Coromandel from 1635 to 1655.

January 1677: In 1676, the Dutch established a factory at Bellasoor (Baleshwar) in Bengal.

January 1677: In 1676, the Dutch established a factory at Patna in Bengal.

January 1677: In 1676, the Dutch East India Company established a trading post in Malda, a city in Bengal, India.

May 1690: In 1690, Chandernagore (Chandernagor) became a French possession in India.

January 1711: In 1710, Murshidabad became a Dutch trading post in Bengal, India.

January 1760: Murshidabad was a Dutch trading post from 1710 to 1759.

January 1764: Establishment of the Danish outpost in Balasore.

March 1824: With the desire to divide the Indies into two separate spheres of influence, the Dutch ceded all their establishment on the Indian peninsula to the British with the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824.