1604Second English East India Company Voyage Encounters VOC Hostility in Banda

A second English East India Company voyage commanded by Sir ...
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🚢 British East India Company Establishes Trading Post in Bantam

June, British East India Company's first voyage, commanded by Sir James Lancaster, arrives in Aceh and sails on to Bantam where he is allowed to build trading post which becomes the centre of British trade in Indonesia until 1682.
British East India Company Establishes Trading Post in Bantam (1602)
British East India CompanyColonialismTradeSpice TradeEuropean Expansion
IndonesiaIndonesiaUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom

🚢 Second English East India Company Voyage Encounters VOC Hostility in Banda

A second English East India Company voyage commanded by Sir Henry Middleton reaches Ternate, Tidore, Ambon and Banda. Fierce VOC hostility is encountered in Banda thus beginning Anglo-Dutch competition for access to spices.
Second English East India Company Voyage Encounters VOC Hostility in Banda (1604)
Spice TradeEast India CompanyVOCColonialismMaritime TradeExplorationBanda Islands
IndonesiaIndonesiaUnited KingdomUnited KingdomNetherlandsNetherlands

💰 English Trading Posts Challenge Dutch East Indies Trade Monopoly

The English establish trading posts at Sukadana (southwest Kalimantan), Makassar, Jayakarta and Jepara in Java, and Aceh, Pariaman and Jambi in (Sumatra) threatening Dutch ambitions for a monopoly on East Indies trade.
English Trading Posts Challenge Dutch East Indies Trade Monopoly (1611)
Dutch East India CompanyBritish East India CompanyTradeColonialismSpice TradeCompetitionMaritime HistoryMercantilism
IndonesiaIndonesiaUnited KingdomUnited KingdomNetherlandsNetherlands

🏢 Dutch East India Company Establishes Trading Post at Jayakarta

The Dutch establish a post at Jayakarta (later 'Batavia' and then 'Jakarta').
Dutch East India Company Establishes Trading Post at Jayakarta (1611)
Dutch East India CompanyColonialismTradeSpice TradeBataviaVOC
IndonesiaIndonesiaNetherlandsNetherlands

🚢 Dutch East India Company Begins Operations in Timor

The Dutch East India Company makes its first forays into Timor.
Dutch East India Company Begins Operations in Timor (1613)
Dutch East India CompanyVOCColonialismSpice TradeTradeExplorationMercantilism
IndonesiaIndonesiaNetherlandsNetherlands

🌿 Dutch Secure Nutmeg Monopoly with Treaty of Breda

As a result of the Treaty of Breda between Dutch and England, the Dutch secured a worldwide monopoly on nutmeg by forcing England to give up their claim on Run, the most remote of the Banda Islands.
Dutch Secure Nutmeg Monopoly with Treaty of Breda (1667)
ColonialismSpice TradeDutch East India CompanyMercantilismBanda IslandsMonopoly
NetherlandsNetherlandsUnited KingdomUnited KingdomIndonesiaIndonesia