2.3 European Footholds in Southeast Asia

By Lindsay Darrah
  • Period: 1500 to

    Most of 1500s

    Portugal controlled spice trade between Europe and Asia.
  • Period: 1500 to 1550

    Early 1500s

    Netherlands were part of the Holy Roman Empire, later Protestant Northern Provinces want independence.
  • 1510

    1510

    1510
    The Portuguese seized the island of Goa to make a military base.
  • Period: 1510 to 1560

    In Less Than 50 years...

    Portuguese built a trading empire with military and merchant outposts.
  • Period: 1510 to 1560

    1520-1560

    Portuguese built a trading empire in Southeast Asia.
  • Period: 1510 to 1560

    Within about 50 years...

    Spain had conquered and colonized the Philippine Islands.
  • 1511

    1511

    1511
    Portugal takes island of Malacca under Albuquerque.
  • 1521

    1521

    1521
    Magellan had claimed the Archipelago (the Philippines) for Spain.
  • 1526

    1526

    1526
    Mughal empire started and for 200 years it was peaceful, prosperous, and strong. King Affonso I writes a complaint letter to King John III of Portugal.

  • 1599

    1599
    Dutch return with ships from Asia leading to an increase in overseas trade.

  • 1602

    1602
    A group of wealthy Dutch merchants formed the Dutch East India Company.

  • 1641

    1641
    Dutch captured Malacca from the Portuguese and opened trade with China.
  • Period: to

    In the 1700s...

    The growing power of England & France contributed to the decline of the Dutch trading Empire in the East.

  • 1750

    1750
    The British and French had become locked in a bitter struggle for global power.
  • Period: to

    Late 1700s

    Britain has used its great wealth to dominate much of India.

  • 1900

    1900
    The Dutch maintained an empire in Indonesia.