In 1609, the Dutch East India Company hired Hudson, gave him two learned geographers, fitted him out with a ship called the Half Moon, and supplied him with Dutch sailors.

Batavia ( Jakarta ), Dutch East Indies

* In Germanic languages, except English, East Sea is used: Afrikaans ( Oossee ), Danish ( Østersøen ), Dutch ( Oostzee ), German ( Ostsee ), Icelandic and Faroese ( Eystrasalt ), Norwegian ( Østersjøen ), and Swedish ( Östersjön ).

The myth was perpetuated by Romeyn de Hooghe's Spiegel van Staat der Vereenigden Nederlanden (" Mirror of the State of the United Netherlands ", 1706 ), which also ran to many editions, and it was revived in the atmosphere of Romantic nationalism in the late eighteenth-century reforms that saw a short-lived Batavian Republic and, in the colony of the Dutch East Indies, a capital ( now Jakarta ) that was named Batavia.

The Trekboers, as they were originally known, were mainly of Dutch origin and included Calvinists, such as Flemish and Frisian Calvinists, as well as French Huguenot and German and British protestants who first arrived in the Cape of Good Hope during the period of its administration ( 1652 – 1795 ) by the Dutch East India Company ( Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC ).

The Boer quest for independence manifested in a tradition of declaring republics, which predates the arrival of the British ; when the British arrived, Boer republics had already been declared and were in rebellion from the VOC ( Dutch East India Company ).

The allure of such profits saw an increasing number of Dutch expeditions ; it was soon seen that in trade with the East Indies, competition from each would eat into all their profits.

Thus the competitors united to form the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie ( VOC ) ( the ‘ Dutch East Indies Company ).

Fort Belgica, one of many forts built by the Dutch East India Company, is one of the largest remaining European forts in Indonesia.

* Dutch East India Company in Indonesia

Category: Dutch East India Company

Apart from a visit by the French Parmentier brothers in 1529, for much of the 16th century the only Europeans to visit the islands were Portuguese ; British and Dutch ships began arriving at the turn of the century and the island of Ndzwani became a major supply point on the route to the East.

In the Dutch East Indies ( now Indonesia ) the vast majority of Dutch settlers were in fact Eurasians known as Indo-Europeans, formally belonging to the European legal class in the colony.

* Dutch East Indies

The Dutch Public Health Service provides medical care for the natives of the Dutch East Indies, May 1946

Many European nations chartered corporations to lead colonial ventures, such as the Dutch East India Company or the Hudson's Bay Company, and these corporations came to play a large part in the history of corporate colonialism.

Acting under a charter sanctioned by the Dutch government, the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) defeated Portuguese forces and established itself in the Moluccan Islands in order to profit from the European demand for spices.

A bond ( finance ) | bond issued by the Dutch East India Company, dating from 1623, for the amount of 2, 400 florins

Japan also invades Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies at the same time ( December 8 in Asia ).

* 1941 – Japanese forces simultaneously invade Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies.

ARIN formerly covered Argentina, Aruba, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dutch West Indies, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands ( UK ), French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela until LACNIC was formed.

In the Karang Intan Agreement during the reign of Prince Nata Dilaga ( Susuhunan Nata Alam ) ( 1808 – 1825 ), the Banjar Kingdom gave up its territories to the Dutch Indies which included Bulungan, Kutai, Pasir, Pagatan and Kotawaringin.

Other territories given up to the Dutch Indies were Landak, Sambas, Sintang and Sukadana.

End of the Dutch East Indies.

Haeckel postulated that evidence of human evolution would be found in the Dutch East Indies ( now Indonesia ), and described these theoretical remains in great detail.

Throughout the year 1690, French naval ships from Pondicherry ravaged the coast in order to drive the English and the Dutch out of the East Indies but were unsuccessful.

In 1658 the Dutch West Indies Company seized French territory to establish the Dutch colony of Cayenne.

They quickly gained air superiority over the Allies, who at this stage of the war were often disorganized, under-trained and poorly equipped, and Japanese air power contributed significantly to their successes in the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore, the Dutch East Indies and Burma.

* 1942 – World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies

After this, Flores became part of the territory of Dutch East Indies.

Following bankruptcy, the VOC was formally dissolved in 1800, and the government of the Netherlands established the Dutch East Indies as a nationalised colony.

Indonesia claimed all territories of the former Dutch East Indies, and previously viewed British plans to group the Straits Settlements, the Federated Malay States, the Unfederated Malay States, Sarawak and British North Borneo into a new independent federation of Malaysia as a threat to its objective to create a united state called Greater Indonesia.

Dutch settlement in the East Indies.

He enraged Elizabeth by accepting the post of Governor-General from the Dutch States-General.

The Dutch Governor-General, highest authority in the colony and the Sultan of Jogjakarta.

* 1894 – Hubertus van Mook, Dutch administrator and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies ( d. 1965 )

* 1713 – Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies ( b. 1653 )

Landing at Blackman's Bay and later having the Dutch flag flown at North Bay, Tasman named the island Anthoonij van Diemenslandt in honour of Anthony van Diemen, the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies who had sent Tasman on his voyage of discovery in 1642.

* May 2 – Herman Willem Daendels, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies ( b. 1762 )

* May 30 – Hubertus van Mook, Acting Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1942 to 1948 ( d. 1965 )

* June 6 – Adriaan Valckenier, Dutch Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1737 to 1741 ( d. 1751 )

* July 18 – Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies ( b. 1634 )

* Jan Pieterszoon Coen of the Netherlands ( 1587 – 1629 ), Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies

* October 12 – Jan Willem Janssens, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies ( d. 1838 )

* October 21 – Herman Willem Daendels, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies ( d. 1818 )

* September 21 – Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies ( b. 1587 )

* July 18 – Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies ( d. 1695 )

* November 1 – Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff, Dutch Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies ( b. 1705 )

* June 20 – Adriaan Valckenier, Dutch Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1737 to 1741 ( b. 1695 )

* January 8 – Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies ( d. 1629 )

* October 18 – Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies ( d. 1713 )

* November 17 – Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies ( b. 1653 )

* August 8 – Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff, Dutch Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies ( d. 1750 )