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    the East Indies. Cornelis de Houtman was born in 1565 in Gouda, South Holland. His father, Pieter de Houtman, was a brewer. Cornelis had a younger brother...
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  • surname include: Cornelis de Houtman (1565–1599), Dutch explorer who discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia Frederick de Houtman (1571–1627),...
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    Indies from 1595 until 1597. In 1598, de Houtman sailed on a second expedition led by his brother, Cornelis de Houtman, who was killed during the voyage....
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  • and their CEO in South America Cornelis van Haarlem (1562–1638), leading Northern Mannerist painter Cornelis de Houtman (1565–1599), explorer who started...
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    One of the first things these men did was to send Pauw's cousin, Cornelis de Houtman, to Lisbon, posing as a merchant. His job was to confirm Plancius'...
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    interpersonal contacts should be further strengthened. Cornelis de Houtman and Frederick de Houtman (a.k.a. de Houtman brothers), were Dutch explorers who discovered...
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    merchants and explorers, such as Jan Huyghen van Linschoten and Cornelis de Houtman, went on to obtain firsthand knowledge of the "secret" Portuguese...
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    were provided with wives and homes. In 1597, the Dutch explorer Cornelis de Houtman arrived in Bali with 89 surviving men (out of 249 who had departed)...
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    and to the eastern islands. In 1596, a four-ship expedition led by Cornelis de Houtman was the first Dutch contact with Indonesia. By the end of the 18th...
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    forty-nine men and sixty-four cannons led by Cornelis de Houtman. 1596: Birth of René Descartes. 1596: June, de Houtman's expedition reaches Banten the main pepper...
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    the service of Dewa Agung. In 1597, the Dutch merchant-explorer Cornelis de Houtman arrived at Bali, and the Dutch East India Company was established...
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    August 22 – Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (b. 1553) September 1 – Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (b.1565) September 11 – Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman...
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  • Cornelis de Houtman (1565–1599), explorer of the East Indies Frederick de Houtman (1571–1627), Dutch explorer, elder brother of Cornelis de Houtman Willem...
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    East galvanised English interest in the region. That same year, Cornelis de Houtman was sent by Dutch merchants to Lisbon, to gather as much information...
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    navigation and mapmaking, engaged with Portuguese voyages. In 1592, Cornelis de Houtman gathered information on the Spice Islands in Lisbon. The same year...
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    expedition to the East Indies archipelago in 1595 under the command of Cornelis de Houtman. The English East India Company's first voyage in 1602, commanded...
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  • Bawean during their trading expedition to Java led by the explorer Cornelis de Houtman – on 11 January 1597, the badly damaged expedition ship Amsterdam...
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    of the "secret" knowledge of the Portuguese trade routes, which Cornelis de Houtman had managed to acquire in Lisbon. The coastal provinces of Holland...
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    language" from Madagascar to western Polynesia, although Dutch explorer Cornelis de Houtman observed linguistic links between Madagascar and the Malay Archipelago...
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  • Island. June 17 – Willem Barents discovers Spitsbergen. June 24 – Cornelis de Houtman arrives in Banten, the first Dutch sailor to reach Indonesia. July...
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    rights for the trade with Asia for the following 21 years. In 1597 Cornelis de Houtman succeeded in the so-called Eerste Schipvaart (first expedition) to...
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    2008 at the Wayback Machine "Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus Count de Benyowsky: Consisting of His Military Operations in Poland, His Exile into...
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    galvanized interest in the region. That same year, Dutch merchants sent Cornelis de Houtman to Lisbon, to gather as much information as he could about the Spice...
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    Africa in search of new trading routes and business opportunities. Niccolò de' Conti arrived in Southeast Asia as the earliest documented European in the...
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    concerning the West Coast". The Globe (19): 12–13. ISSN 0311-3930. "Cornelis and Frederik de Houtman - Dutch explorers". Encyclopedia Britannica. Collingridge,...
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    from Madagascar to western Polynesia; although the Dutch explorer Cornelis de Houtman also realized the linguistic links between Madagascar and the Malay...
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    Mossel Bay (redirect from De Bakke)
    16th and the early 17th centuries. In one account, the explorer Cornelis de Houtman named the place Mosselbaai when he stopped there in 1595, whilst...
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    fleets arrived in Banten. On 27 June 1596 Dutch trade ships led by Cornelis de Houtman, the first Dutch fleet to arrive in East Indies, landed in Banten...
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  • expedition Cornelis de Houtman (1565–1599), brother to Frederick, established Dutch trading route to the Spice Islands Frederick de Houtman (1571–1627)...
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    spice trade, but after the first Dutch expedition to Indonesia under Cornelis de Houtman, the backers of that expedition decided that the time was ripe for...
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