March 20, 1602 (February 27) Renyin years, the establishment of the Dutch East India Company.


Netherlands East India Company
the Dutch East India Company was established on March 20, 1602, the dissolution in 1799. Referred to VOC Chinese full text should be translated into the United East India Company. The concatenation flag V O and C, above, A is the abbreviation of Amsterdam. "Target =" _blank "> in the Dutch East India Company established the Dutch East India Company was established nearly two centuries, a total of 1772 vessels sent to the overseas, about 100 million people, the Europeans take the 4789 cruise ship classes to Asia average 25,000 employees each overseas bases, twelve thousand sailors.
the Dutch East India Company is established in Europe in the 17th century, the Age of Discovery, when European countries the rise of sea adventure, explore world geography, development off the coast of the business opportunities. 16th century Portuguese in Southeast Asia have been colonial and commercial development in the 1560's, a group of Dutch merchants sent ho Terman (? -1599) to Portugal spying Offers Hao Terman after returning to the group of businessmen to set up a company the use of this information east India development, from April 1595 to 1602, the Netherlands has been set up in the 14 east India trade as the focus of the company, in order to avoid excessive competition in the commercial, 14 company then merged to become one The joint company, which is the Dutch East India Company. Netherlands national parliaments authorized by the Dutch East India Company in the East from the Cape of Good Hope and west of South America, the southern end of the Strait of Magellan has a trade monopoly. (TodayinHistory.cn)
the Dutch East India Company can customize the first group of mercenaries to issue currency, but also the first Company Limited, and was allowed given formal treaty with other countries, and the implementation of colonial rule powers of the Dutch East India Company in Java Pakistan Dawei Ya (now Jakarta, Indonesia) to establish a headquarters in 1669, the Dutch East India Company is one of the world's richest private company, with more than 150 merchant ships, 40 warships, 50,000 employees, and a million name mercenary army, dividend up 40% the dissolution of the main reasons for
the Dutch East India Company in the 18th century, wars between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, the war between the two countries in the 1780-1784 period, due to the country greatly reduced for the demand for Asian goods, guide the economic crisis of the Dutch East India Company, and finally, in the December 31, 1799 announced the dissolution of the company site for the University of Amsterdam today.