Renaissance · Southeast Asia · Exploration
1595
Dutch Reach the East Indies
1595
A Dutch expedition of four ships under Cornelis de Houtman reached Bantam in Java after a miserable fifteen-month voyage that killed half the crew. They returned with a modest cargo of pepper and a roadmap to the Indies. Dutch merchants, scenting profit, began organizing the companies that would become the VOC.
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.