Dutch East Indies established
1800–1949 · Event
The Netherlands takes over the bankrupt VOC's territories, building the colonial state that became modern Indonesia.
On these timelines: Southeast Asia, Master
More from Southeast Asia
- Khmer Empire (Angkor) (802)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Angkor Wat built (1113)
- Majapahit Empire (1293)
- Srivijaya Empire (650)
- Khmer Rouge regime (1975)
- Sultanate of Malacca founded (1400)
- Indonesian National Revolution (1945)
Around 1800
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Jenner's smallpox vaccine (1796)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Napoleonic Wars (1803)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Abolition of British slave trade (1807)
- Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (1806)
- Cession of Louisiana to the US (1803)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 (1808)