Event EVT-000225
20 March 1602 · global
The VOC. Eighty-three years later it enlists Jan Oosthuijsz as an adelborst at Texel and lands him at the Cape, and for the next century it is the government every one of these people lives under. [Wikipedia: Dutch East India Company]
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