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