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