Whereas up until this point the Dutch presence had been simply as traders, that was sometimes treaty-based, the Banda conquest marked the start of the first overt colonial rule in Indonesia albeit under the auspices of the VOC.

The state of New York, which also has a civil law history from its Dutch colonial days, also began a codification of its law in the 19th century.

The 17th century saw the creation of the French colonial empire and the Dutch Empire, as well as the English colonial empire, which later became the British Empire.

Dutch and German colonies saw relatively scarce European migration, since Dutch and German colonial expansion focused upon commercial goals rather than settlement.

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.

The following table shows the names that were formerly used in French and Dutch for major cities, during the colonial period.

* 1781 – Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opened his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa ( present-day Ghana ).

Ownership and manufacture of gunpowder was later prohibited by the colonial Dutch occupiers.

The tale was composed by Irving while he was living in England, and was based on popular tales told by colonial Dutch settlers of New York's Hudson River valley.

Subsequent major European colonial empires included the French, Dutch, and British empires.

The Dutch Republic, particularly Holland and Zeeland, became a veritable Dutch empire, a maritime power with a commercial, imperial and colonial reach that extended to Asia, Africa and the Americas – but not without slavery and colonial oppression.

The Portuguese were the first European colonial powers to establish themselves in Malaysia, capturing Malacca in 1511, followed by the Dutch.

The idea of uniting former British and Dutch colonial possessions in Southeast Asia actually have its roots in early 20th century, as the concept of Greater Malay ( Melayu Raya ) was coined in British Malaya espoused by students and graduates of Sultan Idris Training College for Malay Teachers in the late 1920s.

Partly driven by re-newed colonial aspirations of fellow European nation states the Dutch strived to establish unchallenged control of the archipelago now known as Indonesia.

The Dutch government went into exile in England and formally ceded its colonial possessions to Great Britain.

After the defeat of Napoleon and the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 colonial government of the East Indies was ceded back to the Dutch in 1817.

The Dutch concentrated their colonial enterprise in the Dutch East Indies ( Indonesia ) throughout the 19th century.

It is characterized by large parks and Dutch colonial buildings.

The area includes Jakarta's Chinatown and Dutch colonial landmarks such as the Chinese Langgam building and Toko Merah.

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

* Andries Bicker of the Netherlands ( 1586 – 1652 ), administrator of the Dutch East India Company, Mayor of Amsterdam, and diplomat

However, Aernoutsz's appointed administrator, John Rhoades, quickly lost control of the territory after Aernoutsz himself left for Curaçao to seek out new settlers, and with effective control of Acadia remaining in the hands of France, Dutch sovereignty existed only on paper until the Netherlands surrendered their claim in the Treaties of Nijmegen.

Johan Anthoniszoon " Jan " van Riebeeck ( 21 April 1619, Culemborg, Gelderland – 18 January 1677 ) was a Dutch colonial administrator and founder of Cape Town.

They were led by Hubertus Johannes van Mook, a pre-war Dutch colonial administrator who led the Dutch East Indies government-in-exile in Brisbane, Australia.

Hartmann, a Dutch administrator of the Kedu region, continued Cornelius ' work and in 1835 the whole complex was finally unearthed.

In the novel, the story of Max Havelaar, a Dutch colonial administrator, is told by two diametrically opposed characters: the hypocritical coffee merchant Droogstoppel, who intends to use Havelaar's manuscripts to write about the coffee trade, and the romantic German apprentice Stern, who takes over when Droogstoppel loses interest in the story.

Hendrik Brouwer ( spring 1581 – August 7, 1643 ) was a Dutch explorer, admiral, and colonial administrator both in Japan and the Dutch East Indies.

Maria van Riebeeck ( 28 October 1629-2 November 1664 ) was the spouse of Jan van Riebeeck, the Dutch colonial administrator and first commander of the settlement at the Cape.

* Johannes Verhulst, Dutch composer, conductor, and music administrator

Clarence Addison Dykstra ( February 25, 1883-May 6, 1950 ) was a U. S. administrator of Dutch descent.

Hubertus Johannes van Mook ( Semarang, 30 May 1894 – L ' Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, 10 May 1965 ) was a Dutch administrator in the East Indies.

According to Kessler, Volpe promised to preserve the site in the form of a park with monuments, and " Edward J. Logue, the administrator of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, said the park would be a ' handsome, open space ' with grass, benches, plaques explaining the history of the tree, and ' the largest elm tree that can be transported and is resistant to Dutch elm disease.

Her mother Helena de Vicq was the daughter of Rene de Vicq, mayor of Amsterdam and administrator of the Dutch West India Company.

* 1652 – At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.

* 1903 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize ( d. 1994 )

* 1944 – Jan Bols, Dutch speed skater

* 1945 – Jan Sloot, Dutch inventor ( d. 1999 )

* 1911 – Jan Koetsier, Dutch composer and conductor ( d. 2006 )

* 1902 – Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and critic ( d. 1943 )

* 1942 – Bas Jan Ader, Dutch artist ( disappeared 1975 )

Due to mutual agreements with foreign clubs, the youth academy has also signed foreign players as teenagers before making first team debuts, such as Belgian defensive trio Jan Vertonghen, Toby Alderweireld and Thomas Vermaelen ( now with Arsenal ) and winger Tom de Mul ( now with Sevilla ), all of whom are full internationals as well as Dutch youth international Javier Martina and Vurnon Anita of the Netherlands Antilles.

* 1656 – Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter ( b. 1596 )

* 1925 – Jan van Roessel, Dutch footballer ( d. 2011 )

He notoriously described in 1724 the case of Baron Jan von Wassenaer, a Dutch admiral who died of this condition following a gluttonous feast and subsequent regurgitation.

* Jan Bruins ( 1940-1997 ), Dutch motorcycle road racer

* Jan Bruin ( born 1969 ), Dutch footballer

Newly-appointed VOC governor-general Jan Pieterszoon Coen set about enforcing Dutch monopoly over the Banda ’ s spice trade.

* 1730 – Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch physician, physiologist and botanist ( d. 1799 )

* 1946 – Jan Akkerman, Dutch guitarist, Focus

The first person to provide evidence and infer the presence of dark matter was Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, a pioneer in radio astronomy, in 1932.

* 1951 – Jan Timman, Dutch chess grandmaster

* 1906 – Jan Pijnenburg, Dutch track cyclist ( d. 1979 )

* 1987 – Jan Smeekens, Dutch speed skater

Prior to the Impressionists, other painters, notably such 17th-century Dutch painters as Jan Steen, had emphasized common subjects, but their methods of composition were traditional.

The captains of these ships — Jan Jacobszoon May van Schellinkhout on the Gouden Cath ( Golden Cat ) and Jacob de Gouwenaer on the Orangienboom ( Orange Tree )— named it Mr. Joris Eylant after the Dutch cartographer Joris Carolus who was on board and mapped the island.

The captains acknowledged that a third Dutch ship, the Cleyn Swaentgen ( Little Swan ) captained by Jan Jansz Kerckhoff and financed by Noordsche Compagnie shareholders from Delft, had already been at the island when they arrived.

From 1615 to 1638, Jan Mayen was used as a whaling base by the Dutch Noordsche Compagnie, which had been given a monopoly on whaling in the Arctic regions by the States General in 1614.

With the exception of a few ships from Dunkirk, which came to the island in 1617 and were either driven away or forced to give a third of their catch to the Dutch, only the Dutch and merchants from Hull sent up ships to Jan Mayen from 1616 onward.