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The Dutch East India Company is nationalized by the Batavian Republic.

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Dutch East India Company

1602–1799 Dutch trading company

The United East India Company, commonly known as the Dutch East India Company, was a chartered trading company and one of the first joint-stock companies in the world. Established on 20 March 1602 by the States General of the Netherlands amalgamating existing companies, it was…
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Batavian Republic

Dutch client state of the French First Republic and French Empire, 1795–1806

The Batavian Republic was the successor state to the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. It was proclaimed on 19 January 1795 after the Batavian Revolution and ended on 5 June 1806, with the accession of Louis Bonaparte to the Dutch throne. From October 1801 onward, it was…
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