Dutch East India Company chartered
1602 · Event
VOC founded with extraordinary state-backed monopoly powers; first multinational joint-stock corporation; dominates Asia trade for 200 years.
On these timelines: Master, Economic History, The Low Countries
Around 1602
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- 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)