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Dutch takes over Batavia
The Dutch took over Batavia, the Capital of an Island which later became the center of the Dutch's rule called Java initially to control the trade with the spice islands. -
The Dutch Added Lands to Their Territory
From the early 17th century until 1770, the Dutch annexed lands around Batavia and cultivated plantations, including the Preanger districts, Cheribon, Semerand, Bantam, Madura, and most of the coastal regions of Borneo and the Celebes. They reigned over these lands through the Dutch East India Company, and omitting few places, the Comapny used indirect control and ruled through the native rulers rather than trying to control the people. But in 1770, the Dutch East India Company faced Bankruptcy. -
British Grab some control
William V fled from the Netherlands ahead of the French in 1795, and he was apprehended in England. There, he ordered his colonial governers to allow British Troops and merchant ships into their colonies. Once the British were "welcomed" they were able to claim Malacca, Ambon, Banda, and Ternate for themselves by 1799. -
The Treaty of Amiens
Britain's newly claimed land was to be restored to the Dutch by the Treaty of Amiens, but war broke shorty after and Britian ended up keeping all of those lands and prepared to invade Java. -
Herman Willem Daendels becomes governor general of the Netherlands East Indies
Louis Bonaparte became King of the Netherlands in 1806, and appointed Herman Willem Daendels, a Dutch Jacobin, as the governor-general of the Netherlands East Indies. Daendels standardized commercial arrangements, codified the laws, formalized judiciary system, reduced the power of Chinese businessmen, improved the sanitary conditions in Batavia, fortified the city, and moved much of the army out of Batavia where they were vulnerable to the British Army and into Meester Cornelis. -
British Chase Janssens
When Napoleon added the Netherlands to his empire, Daendels was recalled from his position and was replaced with Jan Willem Janssens who ruled a more comfortable approach, and he was less decisive. Right after he arrived, British governor-general of India, Lord Minto led a force of 9,000 soldiers into Batavia, and Janssens retreated to Meester Cornelis, while the British took Batavia, and then they surrounded Meester Cornelis, and Janssens fled south and then he surrendered north of Yogjakart. -
The Convention of London
The Convention of London took place after the Napoleonic wars around 1815. It was decided that all of the lands the British claimed after 1803 from the Dutch would therefore be returned to the Dutch. -
Rebuilding Dutch Rule
The Dutch reestablished their rule of Java in 1830, and built a new governing structure for the region. A new school was established in the Netherlands to educate people about the history and culture of the Dutch East Indies. The Islands of Java and Madura were the economic and governing core of the colonies. -
Dutch exploit natural resources
During the time of the rubber boom, the Dutch established rubber plantations and Tin mines on top of the already existing rice, livestock, and fishing industries in the Dutch East Indies. Mining companies came in and turned the land into a "moonscape." -
The Netherlands expand the boundaries of the Dutch East Indies
The Netherlands didn't annex the north of Sumatra which was controlled by the Aceh sultans until after the Acehnese war, which was from 1873 until 1904. Then in 1906, the Dutch invaded Bali, and tore apart the Balinese nobility who were the resistance, and were able to take over that as well. -
The Netherlands' method of controlling their colonies
The Dutch controlled trade in Borneo, the Celebes, and the rest of the Sunda islands, but not the events that happened. In the Molaccas, the Dutch controlled the population a lot more tightly by building schools, churches, and converted people to join the Dutch Reformed Church.
