...first English East India Company factory (trading…
June 1601 CE
...first English East India Company factory (trading post) established at Bantam and a commercial mission dispatched to the Moluccas.
The Company struggles initially due to the competition from the already well established Dutch, but imports of pepper from Java are to become be an important part of the Company's trade for twenty years.
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Aceh, or Atjeh, Sultanate
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England, (Tudor) Kingdom of
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Bantam, Sultanate of
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Portugal, Habsburg (Philippine) Kingdom of
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Netherlands, United Provinces of the (Dutch Republic)
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East India Company, British (The Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies)
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