Rijcklof Volckertsz. van Goens (24 June 1619 – 14 November 1682) was the Governor of Zeylan and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. He was the Governor...

dos Milagres de Jafanapatão). It was captured by the Dutch under Rijcklof van Goens in 1658, who expanded the structure. In 1795, it was taken over by...

(bapt.) – Sir Jeffrey Hudson, English court dwarf (d. 1682) June 24 – Rijcklof van Goens, Dutch colonial governor (d. 1682) July 3 – Hyojong of Joseon, 17th...

taught free of charge or Pro Deo. During a visit from the commissioner Rijcklof van Goens in 1657, several regulations concerning the burghers were drawn up...

alongside Johan Bax van Herenthals (who would also take an interest in natural history). Van Rheede served under Admiral Rijcklof van Goens in campaigns against...

Governor Rijckloff van Goens Jr. (1675-1679), who had succeeded his father in 1675 Subsequent to the departure of Governor Rijcklof van Goens, and with the...

Thomas Browne, English polymath and poet (born 1605) November 14 – Rijcklof van Goens, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1678-1681 and travel writer...

1646 and was governor until 26 February 1650. He was succeeded by Jacob van Kittensteyn. He was the third Dutch governor of Zeylan. Seven years later...

Around March 1657, Rijcklof van Goens, a senior VOC officer appointed as commissioner to the fledgling Dutch Cape Colony, ordered Jan van Riebeeck to help...

Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier and poet (died 1655) June 24 – Rijcklof van Goens, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1678–81 and travel writer...

source that is available is a note made by an officer from the VOC, Rijcklof van Goens, who was being dispatched to Mataram at that time. Amangkurat tried...

forces of Golconda, and on the sea side by the fleet of the VOC under Rijcklof van Goens. During the siege an English fleet appeared on the Coromandel coast...

treaty with the Queen of Quilon. But the garrison left behind by Rijcklof van Goens had to be withdrawn because of local and Portuguese resistance. With...

(bapt.) – Sir Jeffrey Hudson, English court dwarf (d. 1682) June 24 – Rijcklof van Goens, Dutch colonial governor (d. 1682) July 3 – Hyojong of Joseon, 17th...

were given safe conduct out of the fort. Although the Dutch (e.g., Rijcklof van Goens) initially restored the captured area back to the Sinhalese kings...

successfully defended their territory and expanded. As hostilities escalated, Van Goes, a Dutch commander, led an army of 900 troops into the territory of...

November 4 – Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop, Dutch astronomer and cartographer (b. 1610) November 14 – Rijcklof van Goens, Dutch colonial governor (b. 1619)...

infantry, illegitimate son of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange. Rijcklof van Goens, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit...

November 4 – Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop, Dutch astronomer and cartographer (b. 1610) November 14 – Rijcklof van Goens, Dutch colonial governor (b. 1619)...

stationed on Ceylon and the Dutch Malabar. He served under Admiral Rijcklof van Goens in campaigns against the Portuguese on the west coast of India. He...

the official protectorate of the Dutch and their officer in-charge, Rijcklof van Goens, placed a military troop in the city to protect it from probable invasions...

governor-general, a post he took up on 25 November 1681, succeeding Rijckloff van Goens. During the term of office of Cornelis Speelman as governor-general, the...

In 1678 Speelman became the Director-General of the VOC, replacing Rijcklof van Goens, who became Governor-General (Speelman would become Governor-General...

punished. The flotilla having been joined by the main force of Colonel Rijcklof van Goens in November, it was decided to split off a large part of the fleet...

mentioned as one of the many distinguished guests at the installation of Rijcklof van Goens as governor-general. He must have died shortly thereafter. Stapel...

as acting Governor of Ceylon on 19 November 1664 and until Rijckloff van Goens, who had previously held this office, returned from Batavia in April 1665...

incomplete list of paintings by Bartholomeus van der Helst that are generally accepted as autograph by Judith van Gent and other sources. The list is in order...