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| 1652 |
| | Jan van Riebeeck establishes a Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope | |
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| 1656 |
| | After a six-month siege, the Dutch capture Colombo from the Portuguese in Sri Lanka | |
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| 1657 |
| | The Dutch in South Africa purchase slaves to do domestic and agricultural work | |
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| 1658 |
| | The Dutch expel the Portuguese from the last of their trading posts in Sri Lanka | |
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| 1664 |
| | Peter Stuyvesant accepts the reality of the military situation and yields New Amsterdam to the British without a shot being fired | |
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| 1666 |
| | New Amsterdam is renamed New York by the recently established English regime | |
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| 1667 |
| | In the treaty of Breda, England keeps New Amsterdam and New Netherland, and Holland keeps the English-held territory of Surinam | |
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| 1683 |
| | Mennonites and other from Germany (later known as the Pennsylvania Dutch) begin to settle in Penn's liberal colony | |
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| c. 1700 |
| | Holland and England are now producing the magnificent ocean-going merchant vessels known as East Indiamen | |
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| 1722 |
| | Easter Island is reached by the Dutch, beginning a spate of European discovery in the islands of the Pacific | |
| | Hodges Monuments on Easter Island (detail) National Maritime Museum
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