Dutch East India Company chartered
1602 · Event
Chartered with a state-granted trade monopoly and powers to wage war and make treaties; often described as the first multinational corporation, it dominates much of Europe's Asian trade in the 17th century.
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Around 1602
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- English Civil War (1642)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Edo period (1603)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)