The VOC establishes the post of Governor…

1610 CE

The VOC establishes the post of Governor General in 1610 to enable firmer control of their affairs in Asia.

To advise and control the risk of despotic Governors General, a Council of the Indies (Raad van Indië) is created.

The Governor General effectively becomes the main administrator of the VOC's activities in Asia, although the Heeren XVII (the Lords Seventeen, the Amsterdam-based regents of the VOC) will continue to officially have overall control.

VOC headquarters will be in Ambon from 1610 to 1619 for the tenures of the first three Governors General.

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Ambon Maluku Indonesia View →

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Tupi people (Amerind tribe) View → Cochin, Kingdom of View → Kongo, Kingdom of View → Kandy, Sinhalese Kingdom of View → Johor, Sultanate of View → Matamba, Kingdom of View → Brazil, Colonial View → Spain, Habsburg Kingdom of View → Portugal, Habsburg (Philippine) Kingdom of View → Netherlands, United Provinces of the (Dutch Republic) View → East India Company, British (The Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies) View → Dutch East India Company in Indonesia View → Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC in Dutch, literally "United East Indies Company") View → England, (Stuart) Kingdom of View →

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