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Events relating to the dutch empire
The Portuguese establish a presence in Sri Lanka, trading in the island's crop of cinammon
The Portuguese make treaties in the Moluccas (or Spice Islands), to trade in cloves and nutmeg
The first Dutch expedition round the Cape reaches Java and secures trading agreements
The Dutch East India Company is founded, with a tax-free monopoly of the eastern trade for twenty-one years
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
The Dutch West India Company is chartered to trade and found colonies anywhere along the entire American coast
The Dutch gradually exclude the Portuguese from the immensely lucrative trade in cloves from the Spice Islands (or Moluccas)
Peter Minuit purchases the island of Manhattan from local Indians and calls the place New Amsterdam
Rival Dutch, English and French colonies are established in Guiana, the northeast coast of south America
The Dutch expel the Portuguese from their trading posts in Malacca
The Dutch explorer Abel Tasman attempts to land in Golden Bay, New Zealand, resulting in a clash with the Maoris
Peter Stuyvesant begins a 17-year spell as director-general of the Dutch colony of New Netherland in North America
To protect their market, the Dutch destroy all clove trees in the Moluccas except on two islands, Amboina and Ternate
Jan van Riebeeck establishes a Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope
After a six-month siege, the Dutch capture Colombo from the Portuguese in Sri Lanka
The Dutch in South Africa purchase slaves to do domestic and agricultural work
The Dutch expel the Portuguese from the last of their trading posts in Sri Lanka
Peter Stuyvesant accepts the reality of the military situation and yields New Amsterdam to the British without a shot being fired
New Amsterdam is renamed New York by the recently established English regime
In the treaty of Breda, England keeps New Amsterdam and New Netherland, and Holland keeps the English-held territory of Surinam
Easter Island is reached by the Dutch, beginning a spate of European discovery in the islands of the Pacific
Dutch nomads, pressing far north from Cape Town, become known as the Trekboers
Dutch Boers begin calling themselves Afrikaners, to emphasize that Africa is their native land
With the Dutch entering the war on the side of the French, Britain seizes their valuable Cape colony in South Africa
The Treaty of Amiens restores the Cape of Good Hope to the Netherlands
