Founding of Batavia
The Dutch gain their spice-trade capital in Asia
Jan Pieterszoon Coen seized Jayakarta and founded Batavia on its site as the Asian headquarters of the Dutch East India Company. From here the Dutch ran the spice trade and their colonial empire in Indonesia.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1598 Edict of Nantes — 21 years earlier
- 1600 East India Company founded — 19 years earlier
- 1610 Galileo's telescopic discoveries — 9 years earlier
- 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War — 1 year earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1598–1613 Time of Troubles — 21 years earlier
- 1612 Minin and Pozharsky liberate Moscow — 7 years earlier
- 1613 Election of Michael Romanov as Tsar — 6 years earlier
Africa
- 1624–1663 Nzinga becomes Queen of Ndongo — 5 years later
Americas
- 1600 Eruption of Huaynaputina — 19 years earlier
- c. 1605–1694 Quilombo of Palmares — 14 years earlier
- 1607 Founding of Jamestown — 12 years earlier
- 1609 Jesuit reductions among the Guaraní — 10 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Galileo Galilei (aged 55)
- René Descartes (aged 23)
- Rembrandt (aged 13)
- James I (aged 53)
- Johannes Kepler (aged 48)
- Abbas the Great (aged 48)
- Nur Jahan (aged 42)
- Ferdinand II (aged 41)
- Tokugawa Hidetada (aged 40)
- Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba (aged 36)