38 Facts About Dutch Empire

The Dutch were among the earliest empire-builders of Europe, following Spain and Portugal.

Imperial ambitions of the Dutch Empire were bolstered by the strength of their existing shipping industry, as well as the key role they played in the expansion of maritime trade between Europe and the Orient.

Territories that would later form the Dutch Empire Republic began as a loose federation known as the Seventeen Provinces, which Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, inherited and brought under his direct rule in 1543.

In 1566, a Protestant Dutch Empire revolt broke out against rule by Roman Catholic Spain, sparking the Eighty Years' War.

The revolt resulted in the establishment of an de facto independent Protestant republic in the north by Treaty of Antwerp, but the Dutch Empire were never able to successfully remove the Spanish foothold in the southern Netherlands.

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Dutch Empire itself was founded as a joint stock company, similarly to its English rival that had been founded two years earlier, the English East India Company.

The Dutch Empire established a trading post in Ayutthaya, modern day Thailand during the reign of King Naresuan, in 1604.

Spanish-Dutch Empire War was for the Dutch Empire part of their struggle for independence and religious freedom, during the Eighty Years' War.

In 1566, the Dutch Empire revolt erupted and in 1568 the Dutch Empire Republic embarked on the long, torturous path of the Eighty Years' War and began the invasion and looting of Spanish colonies in the Americas and of Asia, including an attempted invasion of the Philippines .

The Dutch Empire sought to dominate the commercial sea trade in Southeast Asia, going so far in pursuit of this goal as to engage in what other nations and powers considered to be little more than piratical activities.

War with the Dutch Empire led to attacks on most of Portugal's far-flung trading network in and around Asia, including Ceylon, and Goa, as well as attacks upon her commercial interests in Japan, Africa, and South America.

The settlements were isolated, difficult to reinforce if attacked, and prone to being picked off one by one, but nevertheless, the Dutch Empire only enjoyed mixed success in its attempts to do so.

Meanwhile, the Dutch Empire continued to drive out the Portuguese from their bases in Asia.

Whilst the Dutch Empire were unable in four attempts to capture Macau from where Portugal monopolized the lucrative China-Japan trade, the Japanese shogunate's increasing suspicion of the intentions of the Catholic Portuguese led to their expulsion in 1639.

Under the subsequent sakoku policy, from 1639 till 1854 the Dutch Empire were the only European power allowed to operate in Japan, confined in 1639 to Hirado and then from 1641 at Deshima.

The Dutch Empire found the climate hostile and abandoned the island after several further decades.

Dutch Empire established a colony at Tayouan, in the south of Taiwan, an island then largely dominated by Portuguese traders and known as Formosa; and, in 1642 the Dutch Empire took northern Formosa from the Spanish by force.

In 1646, the Dutch Empire tried to capture the Spanish colony in the Philippines.

In 1630, the Dutch Empire occupied the Portuguese sugar-settlement of Pernambuco and over the next few years pushed inland, annexing the sugar plantations that surrounded it.

In 1642, the Dutch Empire captured the Portuguese possession of Axim in Africa.

The Dutch Empire had been sending ships annually to the Hudson River to trade fur since Henry Hudson's voyage of 1609.

At the time, the Dutch Empire had subdued the indigenous Khoisan and San peoples in the Cape and seized their traditional territories.

However, the Dutch Empire proved unable to control their own settlers, who disregarded the agreement and crossed into Xhosa territory, sparking one of Southern Africa's longest colonial conflicts: the Xhosa Wars.

The Dutch Empire defense, led by governor Frederick Coyett, held out for nine months.

Second Anglo-Dutch Empire War was precipitated in 1664, when English forces moved to capture New Netherland.

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In South America, the Dutch Empire seized Cayenne from the French in 1658 and drove off a French attempt to retake it a year later.

The Dutch Empire claimed that a treaty signed with the sultan's predecessor the year earlier had granted them control of the region.

Only in the early 20th century did Dutch Empire dominance extend to what was to become the boundaries of modern-day Indonesia.

Dutch Empire traders moved en masse from the islands to the United States or Latin America, leaving behind small populations with little income and which required subsidies from the Dutch Empire government.

The Dutch Empire surrendered two months later in Java, with Indonesians initially welcoming the Japanese as liberators.

The internment of all Dutch Empire citizens meant that Indonesians filled many leadership and administrative positions, although the top positions were still held by the Japanese.

Generally, the Dutch Empire do not celebrate their imperial past, and anti-colonial sentiments have prevailed since Jacob Haafner's 1807 treatise.

Dutch Empire first named the island Anthony van Diemen's Land after his sponsor Anthony van Diemen, the Governor of the Dutch East Indies.

Dutch Empire architecture is easy to see in Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire and Saint Eustatius.

The Dutch Empire were the first to start the spread of the coffee plant in Central and South America, and by the early 19th century Java was the third largest producer in the world.

In 1778 the Dutch Empire brought cacao from the Philippines to Indonesia and commenced mass production.

Many Suriname-born football players and Dutch Empire-born football players of Surinamese descent, like Gerald Vanenburg, Ruud Gullit, Frank Rijkaard, Edgar Davids, Clarence Seedorf, Patrick Kluivert, Aron Winter, Georginio Wijnaldum, Virgil van Dijk and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink have turned out to play for the Dutch Empire national team.

Dutch Empire sport of korfball is practised, and there is a national korfball team.