28 Facts About Dutch East India Company

The name 'Dutch East India Company' is used to make a distinction from the [British] East India Company and other East Indian companies.

In 1600, the Dutch East India Company joined forces with the Muslim Hituese on Ambon Island in an anti-Portuguese alliance, in return for which the Dutch East India Company were given the sole right to purchase spices from Hitu.

In 1613, the Dutch East India Company expelled the Portuguese from their Solor fort, but a subsequent Portuguese attack led to a second change of hands; following this second reoccupation, the Dutch East India Company captured Solor in 1636.

East of Solor, on the island of Timor, Dutch advances were halted by an autonomous and powerful group of Portuguese Eurasians called the Topasses.

In 1602, the Dutch government followed suit, sponsoring the creation of a single "United East Indies Company" that was granted monopoly over the Asian trade.

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Dutch East India Company saw the possibility of the VOC becoming an Asian power, both political and economic.

Dutch East India Company supported Christian missionaries and traded modern technology with China and Japan.

Dutch East India Company had however already followed the example of its European competitors in diversifying into other Asian commodities, like tea, coffee, cotton, textiles, and sugar.

The Dutch East India Company military searched houses of Chinese in Batavia for weapons.

The Dutch East India Company later re-captured Manhattan, but returned it along with the colony of New Netherland in the Treaty of Westminster ending the Third Anglo-Dutch East India Company War.

Dutch East India Company was much an unofficial representative of the States General of the United Provinces in foreign relations of the Dutch Republic with many states, especially Dutch-Asian relations.

Fine textiles from Dutch East India Company were a popular luxury import into Indonesia, and some still survive as treasured heirlooms.

The Dutch East India Company came to dominate the map-making and map printing industry by virtue of their own travels, trade ventures, and widespread commercial networks.

Dutch East India Company ships carried goods, but they opened up opportunities for the exchange of knowledge.

Hansken, a young female Asian elephant from Dutch East India Company Ceylon, was brought to Amsterdam in 1637, aboard a VOC ship.

Dutch East India Company was turned back by the ice of the Arctic in his second attempt, so he sailed west to seek a north-west passage rather than return home.

Dutch East India Company ended up exploring the waters off the east coast of North America aboard the vlieboot Halve Maen.

Dutch East India Company first discovered Delaware Bay and began to sail upriver looking for the passage.

Dutch East India Company found the water too shallow to proceed several days later, at the site of present-day Troy, New York.

Dutch East India Company's report was first published in 1611 by Emanuel Van Meteren, an Antwerp emigre and the Dutch Consul at London.

Dutch East India Company replaced it with one of his own, which included a copy of Hartog's inscription, and took the original plate home to Amsterdam, where it is still kept in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

Dutch East India Company named Tasmania Anthoonij van Diemenslandt, after Anthony van Diemen, the VOC's governor-general, who had commissioned his voyage.

In 1645 Dutch East India Company cartographers changed the name to Nova Zeelandia in Latin, from Nieuw Zeeland, after the Dutch East India Company province of Zeeland.

Dutch East India Company has been criticised for its quasi-absolute commercial monopoly, colonialism, exploitation, slave trade, use of violence, environmental destruction, and for its overly bureaucratic organisational structure.

The Dutch East India Company launched punitive expeditions that resulted in the near destruction of Bandanese society.

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From 1658 to the end of the company's rule, many more slaves were brought regularly to the Cape in various ways, chiefly by Dutch East India Company-sponsored slaving voyages and slaves brought to the Cape by its return fleets.

In 1659 Doman, a Khoikhoi who had worked as a translator for the Dutch East India Company and had even traveled to Java, led an armed attempt to expel the Dutch East India Company from the Cape peninsula.

Second Flag of the Dutch East India Company, adopted with red stripe around 1630 or 1663 and beyond, for the purpose of better visibility at sea against a light sky.