<Li> 1598--1600: Second Dutch expedition to the East Indies . </Li> <Li> 1599--1602: Establishment of the Brabantsche Compagnie, one of the forerunners of the United East Indies Company / Dutch East India Company (VOC). </Li> <Ul> <Li> 1602: On March 20, the United East Indies Company / United East India Company (Vereenigde Oost - Indische Compagnie, or VOC in Dutch), often referred to by the British as the Dutch East India Company, the world's first true transnational corporation, was originally established as a chartered company . The VOC was the first joint - stock company to get a fixed capital stock and the first recorded (public) company ever to pay regular dividends . </Li> <Li> 1606: The first (undisputed) documented European sighting of and landing on the Australian continent (Nova Hollandia) by the VOC navigator Willem Janszoon aboard the Duyfken . </Li> <Li> 1608--1825: Establishment of Dutch Coromandel by the VOC . </Li> <Li> 1609: The VOC ship Halve Maen's exploratory voyage, a milestone in the history of New York (including New York City) and North America . English explorer Henry Hudson, in the employ of the VOC, sailed the Halve Maen through the Narrows into Upper New York Bay . He was looking for a westerly passage to the Far East . </Li> <Li> 1609: Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius wrote Mare Liberum, a foundational treatise on modern international law of the sea, while being a counsel to the Dutch East India Company (VOC) over the seizing of the Santa Catarina Portuguese carrack issue . </Li> <Li> 1609: The first recorded corporate governance dispute, took place on January 24 (1609) between the shareholders / investors (most notably Isaac Le Maire) and directors of the VOC . </Li> <Li> 1609: The first recorded short seller in history, Isaac Le Maire, a sizeable shareholder of the VOC . </Li> <Li> 1609: Establishment of the Bank of Amsterdam (Amsterdamsche Wisselbank in Dutch), arguably the world's first central bank . </Li> <Li> 1610: An early mechanism of financial regulation practice was the first recorded ban on short selling, by the Dutch authorities . </Li> <Li> 1611: The world's first official / formal stock exchange (Amsterdam Stock Exchange, or Beurs van Hendrick de Keyser in Dutch) and stock market were launched by the VOC in Amsterdam . </Li> <Li> 1611: The VOC was the first corporation to be ever actually listed on an official / formal stock exchange . In other words, the VOC was the world's first formally listed public company (or publicly listed company). </Li> <Li> 1611: Discovery of the Brouwer Route by the VOC navigator Hendrik Brouwer . </Li> <Li> 1616: The VOC navigator Dirk Hartog made the first recorded European landing on the west coast of the Australian continent . </Li> <Li> 1616: Hartog Plate, the first known European artefact found on Australian soil (Dirk Hartog Island). </Li> <Li> 1616--1825: Establishment of Dutch Suratte by the VOC . </Li> <Li> 1619: Establishment of Batavia at the site of the razed city of Jayakarta by the VOC . </Li> <Li> 1621: Establishment of the Dutch West India Company (WIC / GWIC in Dutch). </Li> <Li> 1622: On January 24, Amsterdam - based businessman Isaac Le Maire filed a petition against the VOC, marking the first recorded expression of shareholder activism or shareholder rebellion . </Li> <Li> 1623: Amboyna massacre . </Li> <Li> 1624--1662: Tainan (Dutch Formosa), the first urban area to be established in Taiwan . </Li> <Li> 1627--1825: Establishment of Dutch Bengal by the VOC . </Li> <Li> 1627: The VOC explorers François Thijssen and Pieter Nuyts made the first recorded European landing on the south coast of the Australian continent and charted about 1,800 kilometres of it between Cape Leeuwin and the Nuyts Archipelago . </Li> <Li> 1629: Wiebbe Hayes Stone Fort (West Wallabi Island), the first known European structure to be built on the Australian continent . It was built by survivors of the Batavia shipwreck and massacre . </Li> <Li> 1636--1637: Tulip Mania, generally considered to be the first recorded economic bubble (or speculative bubble) in history . Early stock market bubbles and crashes also have their roots in financial activities of the Dutch East India Company and Dutch Republic . </Li> <Li> 1637: Hansken, a young female Asian elephant from Dutch Ceylon, was brought to Amsterdam in 1637, aboard a VOC ship . Dutch Golden Age artist Rembrandt made some historical drawings of Hansken . </Li> <Li> 1638--1710: Dutch Mauritius, the first permanent human settlement to be established in Mauritius . </Li> <Li> 1640--1796: Establishment of Dutch Ceylon by the VOC . </Li> <Li> 1641--1825: Establishment of Dutch Malacca by the VOC . </Li> <Li> 1641--1853: Beginnings of Rangaku (first phase: 1641--1720). After 1641, the VOC businessmen were the only Western allowed to trade with or to enter isolated Japan . </Li> <Li> 1642: The VOC explorer Abel Tasman discovered, explored, and charted Tasmania and its neighboring islands . He named Tasmania Anthoonij van Diemenslandt (Anglicised as Van Diemen's Land), after Anthony van Diemen, the Dutch East India Company's Governor General, who had commissioned his voyage . </Li> <Li> 1642: On December 13, Abel Tasman's VOC crew were the first non-natives known to discover, explore and chart New Zealand's coastline (Nova Zeelandia). </Li> <Li> 1643: The VOC's navigator Maarten Gerritsz Vries became the first recorded European to explore and map Vries Strait . </Li> <Li> 1643--1644: Cambodian--Dutch War . </Li> <Li> 1652--1806: Kaapstad (Cape Town), the first urban area to be established in South Africa . </Li> <Li> 1653--1666: The VOC bookkeeper Hendrick Hamel was the first known non-Asian to experience first - hand and write about Joseon - era Korea (often referred to as the "Hermit Kingdom"). </Li> <Li> 1659: Beginnings of the South African wine industry . </Li> <Li> 1659--1677: Khoikhoi--Dutch Wars . </Li> <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> 1679: Stellenbosch, the second oldest urban area (town) in South Africa, was founded in 1679 by the Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony Simon van der Stel . </Li> <Li> 1680: Establishment of Simonstad (Simon's Town), a town near Cape Town . </Li> <Li> 1688--1689: The first large - scale emigration of Huguenots to the Dutch Cape Colony (modern - day Western Cape, South Africa). </Li> <Li> 1688: Establishment of Franschhoek, a town in the Western Cape Province, in 1688 by Huguenots . </Li> <Li> 1688: After observing and analyzing the workings of the VOC - lead Dutch stock market, Amsterdam - based businessman Joseph de la Vega published Confusion de Confusiones, the earliest known book about stock trading, and helped lay the foundations for modern fields of technical analysis and behavioral finance . </Li> <Li> 1697: European discovery of black swans for the first time in history, by the VOC navigator Willem de Vlamingh . </Li> <Li> 1697: In his undercover visit to the Dutch Republic as part of the Grand Embassy mission (1697--98), Tsar Peter I of Russia (Peter the Great) worked as a ship's carpenter in the VOC's shipyards in Amsterdam and Zaandam / Saardam . </Li> <Li> 1722: In the service of the Dutch West India Company (WIC / GWIC), Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen and his crew were arrested for violating the monopoly of the VOC and sent back to the Dutch Republic almost as prisoners on ships of the VOC, the rivals of the Dutch West India Company . </Li> <Li> 1740: Batavia massacre . </Li> <Li> 1746: Establishment of Swellendam, the third oldest urban area (town) in South Africa . </Li> <Li> 1780--1784: Fourth Anglo - Dutch War . </Li> </Ul> <Li> 1602: On March 20, the United East Indies Company / United East India Company (Vereenigde Oost - Indische Compagnie, or VOC in Dutch), often referred to by the British as the Dutch East India Company, the world's first true transnational corporation, was originally established as a chartered company . The VOC was the first joint - stock company to get a fixed capital stock and the first recorded (public) company ever to pay regular dividends . </Li>

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