Dutch East India Company: All Data

This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.

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.