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Lucretia Jans, or Lucretia van der Mijlen (1602 in Amsterdam – fl. 1641), was a survivor of the events that followed the sinking of the Dutch East India Company (commonly abbreviated to VOC) vessel Batavia in 1629. [1] She was the daughter of merchant Jans (or Hans) Meynertsz and Steffanie Joosten.
The United East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie [vərˈeːnɪɣdə ʔoːstˈɪndisə kɔmpɑˈɲi]; abbreviated as VOC [veː (j)oːˈseː]), commonly known as the Dutch East India Company, was a chartered trading company and one of the first joint-stock companies in the world. [3][4] Established on 20 March 1602 [5] by ...
Batavia was the capital of the Dutch East Indies.The area corresponds to present-day Jakarta, Indonesia.Batavia can refer to the city proper or its suburbs and hinterland, the Ommelanden, which included the much larger area of the Residency of Batavia in the present-day Indonesian provinces of Jakarta, Banten and West Java.
The Dutch East Indies, [ 3 ] also known as the Netherlands East Indies (Dutch: Nederlands (ch)-Indië; Indonesian: Hindia Belanda), was a Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which declared independence on 17 August 1945.
Batavia (Dutch pronunciation: [baːˈtaːvijaː] ⓘ) was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). She was built in Amsterdam in 1628 as the flagship of one of the three annual fleets of company ships [4] and sailed that year on her maiden voyage for Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies. On 4 June 1629, Batavia was wrecked on the ...
19. Chicago Bears RB D’Andre Swift entered Sunday with 114 total yards from scrimmage, averaging just 2.7 yards per touch. But in a 24-18 defeat of the Rams, he racked up 165 yards and a TD ...
Jeronimus Cornelisz. Jeronimus Cornelisz (c. 1598 – 2 October 1629) was a Dutch apothecary and Dutch East India Company merchant who sailed aboard the merchant ship Batavia which foundered near the Australian mainland. Cornelisz then led one of the bloodiest mutinies in history. After the ship was wrecked in the Houtman Abrolhos, a chain of ...
Here is how Illinois girls basketball rank in the the first AP top 10 poll for Class 1A, 2A, 3A and 4A in 2023-24. ... tie-Batavia 9-1 16. ... East Moline 5. Aurora Waubonsie Valley 3. St. Charles ...