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Dutch Empire timeline
1505
The Portuguese establish a presence in Sri Lanka, trading in the island's crop of cinammon
1512
The Portuguese make treaties in the Moluccas (or Spice Islands), to trade in cloves and nutmeg
1595
The first Dutch expedition round the Cape reaches Java and secures trading agreements
1602
The Dutch East India Company is founded, with a tax-free monopoly of the eastern trade for twenty-one years
1619
Jan Pieterszoon Coen destroys the town of Jakarta, on the coast of Java, and rebuilds it as a Dutch trading centre under the name Batavia
1621
The Dutch West India Company is chartered to trade and found colonies anywhere along the entire American coast
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