In 1830 Morgan's widow Lucinda Pendleton Morgan married George W. Harris of Batavia, a silversmith who was 20 years older.

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.

In 1781, Isaac Titsingh published Bereiding van Sacki in Batavia, Dutch East Indies | Batavia, which was then the main city of the Dutch East Indies.

* February 5 – The ship Ridderschap van Holland is lost at sea after it departs the Cape of Good Hope, but does not arrive at Batavia.

After being released, they returned from Batavia to Amsterdam in the company of Joris van Spilbergen, who was on a circumnavigation of the earth himself, be it via the traditional Strait of Magellan.

De Schouwburg van Batavia ( today Gedung Kesenian Jakarta ) was designed as concert hall in 19th century.

Anthony van Diemen ( also Antonie, Antonio, Anton, Antonius ) ( Culemborg, 1593 – Batavia, 19 April 1645 ), Dutch colonial governor, was born in Culemborg in the Netherlands, the son of Meeus Anthonisz van Diemen and Christina Hoevenaar.

Anthony van Diemen died in April 1645 in Batavia, Dutch East Indies.

Following a second voyage, in 1694, he was asked to mount an expedition to search for the Ridderschap van Holland, a VOC capital ship that was lost with 325 passengers and crew on its way to Batavia in 1609.

In 1706 he joined the Dutch East Indies Company, and between 1707 and 1714 as a Raadsheer van Justitie (" Council Lord of Justice ") at Batavia, Dutch East Indies ( now Jakarta ).

The Batavia journal of Francisco Pelsaert: Algemeen Rijksarchief, The Hague, Netherlands: Document 1630: 1098 QQII, fol. 232-316 / Edited and translated by Marit van Huystee.

This was turned down by the Council of Indies ( Raad van Indie ) in Batavia, since even if VOC managed to conquer the coast, it would not be strong enough to conquer the mountainous interior of Java, which do not provide much level plain required by Western method of warfare.

The cape was named by Abel Tasman after the wife of his patron, Anthony van Diemen, Governor General of Batavia ( now Jakarta ) in January 1643, on the same voyage of discovery during which he named Van Diemen's Land ( now Tasmania ).

Image: COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Brug en sluis in de Tjisadane ( Cisadane ) bij Tangerang ten westen van Batavia TMnr 60001131. jpg | Cisadane floodgates, years 1915-1925

In a 1604 expedition from Batavia ( the central base of the Dutch in Asia ), Admiral van Warwijk set out to attack Macau, but his force was waylaid by a typhoon, driving them to the Pescadores ( now known as Penghu ).

He studied medicine at Leiden and then returned to the Dutch East Indies and was a teacher at the STOVIA ( School tot Opleiding van Indische Artsen or " school for the training of Indian physicians ") Batavia.

* 7 May-Jan van Riebeeck leaves the Cape on promotion to a position on the Council of Justice in Batavia

* 18 January 1677-Jan van Riebeeck dies at Batavia on Java

The island was named in 1642 by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman after Maria van Diemen ( née van Aelst ), wife of Anthony van Diemen, the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies in Batavia.

Pieter, Baron Melvill van Carnbee ( May 20, 1816, The Hague-October 24, 1856, Batavia ), was a Dutch naval officer and geographer.

In 1850 Melvill returned to India as lieutenant of the first class and adjutant to Vice-Admiral van den Bosch ; and after the premature death of this commander he was again appointed keeper of the charts at Batavia.

In November 1946, British forces withdrew and Van der Post became military attaché to the British consulate in Batavia.

He made many valuable contributions to the history of Holland: Batavia Illustrata ( 4 parts, Leiden, 1609 ); Corte historische Beschryvinghe der Nederlandscher Oorlogen ( 1612 ); Inferioris Germaniae.

On 30 May 1619, Coen, backed by a force of nineteen ships, stormed Jayakarta driving out the Banten forces ; and from the ashes established Batavia as the VOC headquarters.

They started to call themselves Batavians, later resulting in the Batavian Republic, and took the name " Batavia " to their colonies such as the Dutch East Indies, where they founded the city that was called Batavia from 1619 until about 1942, when its name was changed to Djakarta ( later respelt Jakarta ; see: History of Jakarta ).

In chapter 5 of Voltaire's novella Candide, a minor character remarks that he was from this region ; " I am a sailor and born at Batavia ".

Gogel's General Taxation Plan was finally enacted in June, 1805 ; a first government-approved attempt at unification of the Dutch spelling was made ; an embryonic Department of Agriculture and Department of Hydraulics were formed, to foreshadow the later government departments ; even a Pharmacopeia Batavia started the regulation of drugs ; and the School Law of 1806 organized a national system of public elementary education.

The original teams included the Batavia Clippers ; the Bradford Bees ; the Hamilton Red Wings ; the Jamestown Jaguars ; the Niagara Falls Rainbows ; and the Olean Oilers.

He was not fighting for Vespasian ; he was fighting for Batavia.

The first voyage under his energetic administration was undertaken within three months of his arrival in Batavia ; starting from Cape York its ships were to chart the unknown coasts, but the venture ended in failure, when its commander was killed by natives in New Guinea, and the ships returned.

* 1622-English ship the Tryall was wrecked at Tryal Rocks off the northwest coast ; 45 survivors reached Batavia independently in two boats.

Additionally, its signal can be heard as far west as Grand Rapids, Michigan ; as far east as Batavia, New York ; as far south as Edgewood, Kentucky ; and as far north as Posen, Michigan.

The market in spices was divided between them in a fixed proportion of two to one ( both companies having legal monopolies in their home markets ); a Council of Defense was instituted in Batavia that was to govern the merchants of both companies ; most importantly, those merchants were now to share trading posts peacefully, though each company was to retain and police the posts it had occupied.

The charter was obtained by citizens of Aurora and Batavia, Illinois, who were concerned that the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad would bypass their towns in favor of West Chicago on its route ; at the time, that was the only line running west from Chicago.

* June 4 – 21 – Led by the American zoologist and philanthropist Richard Archbold and carrying Australian Patrick Gordon Taylor as navigator, the PBY-2 Catalina flying boat Guba II makes the first flight across the Indian Ocean in history, flying from Port Hedland, Australia, to Mombasa, Kenya, via Batavia, Java ; the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands ; Diego Garcia ; and the Seychelles.

Chandler was born in Batavia, New York, the son of Daniel Chandler, a lawyer.

His father, who was very religious, wanted his son to study at a religious school, while his mother wanted him to study medicine in Batavia.

In the summer of 1623 the Englishmen who had been pardoned and acquitted, sailed to Batavia, and complained to the Dutch governor-general Pieter de Carpentier and the Council of Defence about the Amboyna affair, which they said was a false accusation based upon a fantasy and the confessions had been obtained only by severe torture.

), a Freemason of Batavia, New York, who had become dissatisfied with his lodge and intended to publish a book detailing the secrets of the Freemasons.

Two schoolfriends, who had also been evacuated from Singapore to Batavia, heard that Gorton was in hospital, arranged for them to be put on a ship for Fremantle, which left on 23 February and treated Gorton's wounds.

Agriculture is mostly small family dairy farms, or hobby farms for people who work in Buffalo or Batavia.

Among other notable Clermont County citizens is Hugh Nichols of Batavia who was the first Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court in 1914.

At Batavia they received news of Wallis and Carteret who had preceded Bougainville.

On their arrival in Batavia ( Jakarta ) they discovered that the Japanese had handed over their weapons to Indonesian nationalists who attacked the British force when they tried to wrest control, knowing that the British intended to return Batavia to the Dutch.

The founding president of the school is former Batavia Superintendent Stephanie Pace Marshall, winner of the Lincoln Laureate Award, who was involved with the project from the start and helped write IMSA's original legislation.

Frederick de Houtman ( 1571 – 21 October 1627 ), or Frederik de Houtman, was a Dutch explorer who sailed along the Western coast of Australia en route to Batavia, nowadays known as Jakarta in Indonesia.

Carausius, the 3rd century commander of the Roman fleet who declared himself emperor of Britain and northern Gaul, was a Menapian, born in Batavia.

Colonel Mackenzie, an officer who had been dispatched to reconnoitre the coast, suggested a landing site at Cilincing, an undefended fishing village east of Batavia.

He was also the father of Anthonie who emigrated to Batavia.

Lands to the south of there, now among the most urban of the lowlands, were at that time mainly delta lands: marsh and islands, except for the large island of Batavia, populated by a branch of the Chatti ( who had taken it away from the Celts ) and held in subjection by a Roman city at Noviomagus ( Nijmegen ).

Francisco Pelsaert ( first name also spelled as " François ", surname also spelled as " Pelsart ") ( c. 1595 – September 1630 ) was a Dutch merchant who worked for the Dutch East Indies Company, who became most famous as the commander of the ship Batavia, which ran aground in the Houtman Abrolhos off the coast of Western Australia in June 1629.

In 1685, Batavia sent Captain Tack, the officer who captured Trunojoyo, to capture Surapati and negotiate further details into the agreement between VOC and Amangkurat II but the king arranged a ruse in which he pretended to help Tack.

In May and June 1723, the remnants of the rebels and their leaders surrendered, including Surengrana of Surabaya, Pangeran Purbaya and Dipanagara, all of whom were banished to Ceylon, except Purbaya, who was taken to Batavia to serve as “ backup ” to replace Amangkurat IV in case of any disruption in the relationship between the king and VOC since Purbaya was seen to have equal " legitimacy " by VOC.

The unrest prompted VOC authorities to reduce the number of unlicensed Chinese settlers, who had been smuggled into Batavia by Chinese sugar factory owners.

The first Western contact on record is attributed to the British Captain William Raven from the London trading ship Britannia, who in 1793 was on his way from Norfolk Island to Batavia.

During the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century the Dutch continued to exile Muslim leaders from Batavia to the Cape: they included Sheikh Yusuf of Bantam, who lived at Faure in Cape Town.