<Li> 1660: King Charles II of England sailed from Breda to Delft in a yacht owned by the VOC . HMY Mary and HMY Bezan (both were built by the VOC) were given to Charles II, on the restoration of the monarchy, as part of the Dutch Gift . </Li> <Li> 1661--1795: Establishment of Dutch Malabar by the VOC . </Li> <Li> 1662: The publication of Johannes Blaeu's Atlas Maior (first edition) in Amsterdam . Johannes Blaeu (also known as Joan Blaeu), like his father Willem Blaeu, was an official cartographer to the VOC . Along with Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570), the Atlas Maior (1662--65) is widely considered a masterpiece of the Golden Age of Netherlandish cartography (also known as the Golden Age of Dutch cartography). </Li> <Li> 1666--1679: The Castle of Good Hope, the oldest surviving building in South Africa, was built by the VOC . </Li>

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