ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Timelines : History of Danish India </title> <META name="keywords" keyword="Trankebar, Tranquebar, Frederiksnagar, Frederiksnagore, Serampore, Nicobar Islands"> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2004 --> </head> <body bgcolor="grey" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"></a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Danish India <BR> Index Page </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xdanindia.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xdanindia.html"> <img src = "../banners/bandanindia.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on December 28th 2004, last revised on December 30th 2004 </i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5834279270464755"; google_alternate_color = "FFFFE1"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_channel ="4814426207"; google_ad_type = "text"; //2007-02-17: MIT_ Ganse google_ad_channel = "0420158018"; google_color_border = "FF3300"; google_color_bg = "FFFFE1"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "6F6F6F"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <BR><BR><BR> </div> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline : Danish India </B></font> </TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1616 <BR> 1618 <BR> 1620 <BR><BR> 1625 <BR> 1626 <BR> 1636 <BR> 1640 <BR> 1643 <BR> 1650 <BR> 1655 <BR> 1660 <BR> 1668 <BR><BR> 1669 <BR> 1670 <BR> 1674 <BR> 1696 <BR> 1698 / 1700 <BR> 1714 <BR> 1722 <BR> 1723 <BR> 1726 <BR> 1729 <BR> 1732 <BR> 1752 <BR><BR> 1755 <BR> 1755 <BR> 1755 <BR> 1759 <BR> 1763 <BR> 1772 <BR> 1777 <BR> 1791 <BR> 1801 <BR><BR> 1802 <BR> 1805 <BR> 1808 <BR> 1815 <BR> 1818 <BR> 1823 <BR> 1824 <BR> 1824 <BR> 1827 <BR> 1836 <BR> 1837 <BR> 1843-1845 <BR> 1845 <BR> 1868 <BR><BR> </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "600"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> Danish East India Company chartered <BR> Danish East India expedition struck first coins (since 1620 mint at Tranquebar) <BR> Danish East India Company established trading factory at Tarangambadi (Tranquebar) <BR> on the Coromandel Coast <BR> Danish East India Company established trade factory at Pipli in Bengal <BR> Danish East India Company established trade fractory at Masulipatnam <BR> Danish East India Company established trade factory at Balasore <BR> Last Danish ship for almost 30 years arrived at Tranquebar <BR> By 1643 the D.E,.I.C. factories at Pipli, Masulipatnam, Balasore were abandoned <BR> (First) Danish East India Company dissolved <BR> Danish Tranquebar besieged by force of Raja of Tanjore <BR> Danes fortified Tranquebar by building a wall around it <BR> Kongsbakke, Danish commander of Tranquebar, sent enmissary, report to Copenhagen <BR> (previous reports got through in 1656, 1662-1665) <BR> Danish ship arrived at Tranquebar <BR> (Second) Danish East India Company founded <BR> Begin of D.E.I.C. China trade <BR> D.E.I.C. established trade factory at Oddeway Torre (Malabar Coast) <BR> D.E.I.C. established trade factory at Dannemarksnagore (Gondelpara, Bengal) <BR> Dannemarksnagore (Bengal) abandoned <BR> Oddeway Torre (Malabar Coast) abandoned <BR> First D.E.I.C. expedition to the Nicobar Islands <BR> (Second) Danish East India Company petitioned King for financial aid; petition rejected <BR> (Second) Danish East India Company dissolved <BR> Establishment of (Danish) Asiatic Company <BR> Danish warships Bornholm, Nellebladet arrived in Tranquebar; trading post at Calicut <BR> (Malabar Coast) established <BR> Denmark took possession of the Nicobar Islands <BR> Trade factory at Colachel (Malabar Coast) established <BR> Trade factory at Serampore (Frederiksnagore, Bengal) established <BR> Arrival of Herrnhut Brethren (missionaries) in Tranquebar <BR> Danish East India Company reestablished trade factory at Balasore <BR> Asiatic Company lost monopoly for India Trade <BR> The Danish State formally assumed possession of the Danish establishments in India <BR> Trade factory at Calicut (Malabar Coast) abandoned <BR> British forces defeated Danish garrison at Tranquebar; Danish India occupied by the <BR> British <BR> Tranquebar returned to Danish administration <BR> Temporary British occupation of Nangcovry, a port on the Nicobar Islands <BR> Tranquebar, Serampore (Frederiksnagore) occupied by the British <BR> Tranquebar, Serampore (Frederiksnagore) again returned to Danish administration <BR> Serampore College established (English Baptists) <BR> Collection of tolls (sea) abolished <BR> Danes abandoned trading factory at Colachel on Malabar Coast <BR> Porto Novo sold <BR> Serampore College elevated to university <BR> Collection of toll on land border abolished <BR> The Danes evacuated Danish personnel from the Nicobar Islands <BR> Liquidation of the (Danish) Asiatic Company <BR> Danes sold Frederiksnagore, Tranquebar to (British) E.I.C. <BR> Denmark ceded her claim to the Nicobar Islands - called Frederik Islands by the Danes <BR> to Britain <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-0213752126925919"; google_alternate_color = "FFFFE1"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_channel ="4814426207"; google_ad_type = "text"; google_color_border = "FF3300"; google_color_bg = "FFFFE1"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "6F6F6F"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "3" cellspace="5" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "100" valign = "top" align = "center" bgcolor="#FFFACD"> <font size = "3" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> EXTERNAL <BR> FILES </font></TD> <TD width = "750" valign = "top" align = "left" bgcolor = "#FFFACD"> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> Coins of Danish India, posted by <A HREF = "http://www.geocities.com/jmd_brussels/EURDKE.html"><B>JMD Brussels</B></A> <BR> The Coins of Tranquebar, Danish East India 1620-1845, by <A HREF = "http://www.tranquebar.dk/thecoins-ramme.htm"><B> Uno Barner Jensen</B></A> <BR> Tranquebar. The Danish East India Company 1616-1669, by <A HREF = "http://www.scholiast.org/history/tra-narr.html"><B> Peter Ravn Rasmussen</B></A> <BR> <A HREF = "http://members.ozemail.com.au/~clday/danish.htm"><B>Family History in India</B></A> : Danish Ancestors <BR> Dansk Ostindien - Danish East India, by <A HREF = "http://home3.inet.tele.dk/ujensen/indeks.html"><B>Uno Barner Jensen</B></A>, partially bilingual <BR> Danish Delight, from <A HREF = "http://www.trankebar.net/article/india_weekly/iw-uk.htm"><B>Trankebar.net</B></A> <BR> Tamilology and a German quest, by <A HREF = "http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1509/15090820.htm"><B>S. Viswanathan</B></A> <BR> Danish Troops in East India 1784, from <A HREF = "http://www.milhist.dk/organisation/ostindien.htm"><B>Dansk Militaerhistorie</B></A> <BR> <A HREF = "http://www.trankebar.net/uk.htm"><B>Trankebar.net</B></A> (mainly photos, newspaper articles) <BR> Danish Possessions, a Chronology, by <A HREF = "http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/6497/DanishP.html"><B>Marco Ramerini</B></A> <BR> Danish India, from <A HREF = "http://www.worldstatesmen.org/India.htm#Danish India"><B>World Statesmen</B></A> <BR> Maps of Tranquebar, from <A HREF = "http://www.trankebar.net/history/oldmap-uk.htm"><B>Trankebar.net</B></A> <BR> Article The Danes, from <A HREF = "http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/D_0022.htm"><B>Banglapedia</B></A> <BR> Article Serampore, from <A HREF = "http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/S_0211.HTM"><B>Banglapedia</B></A> <BR> Danmark, Trankebar, by <A HREF = "http://www.lademann.dk/ns/link.asp?e=76035"><B>Lademanns Leksikon</B></A>, in Danish <BR> Asiatisk Kompani, from <A HREF = "http://www.lademann.dk/ns/link.asp?e=66621"><B>Lademanns Leksikon</B></A>, in Danish <BR> Ostindisk Kompani, from <A HREF = "http://www.lademann.dk/ns/link.asp?e=114924"><B>Lademanns Leksikon</B></A>, in Danish <BR> Asiatisk Kompani 1730-1776, from <A HREF = "http://www.sa.dk/ra/brugearkivet/RAsaml/foer1848/handelskomp/B0444.htm"><B> RA Copenhagen</B></A>, in Danish (survey of archived documents) <BR> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <A href="mailto:aganse@hotmail.com"> <IMG src="../../email.gif" border="0"></a><BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman"> Click here to go <A HREF = "../../index.html">Home</A> <BR> Click here to go to <A HREF = "../../about.html">Information about KMLA, WHKMLA, the author and webmaster</A> <BR> Click here to go to <A HREF = "../..links.html">Statistics</A><BR> </font> <BR><BR><BR> <!-- Start of CH Counter --> <script type="text/javascript"> //<!-- // chCounter v2.0.0 // settings: cstatus = "active"; visible = "1"; path_to_counterfile = "http://www.zum.de/whkmla/counter/counter.php"; urlhp = "http://www.zum.de"; //////////////// url = unescape(location.href); file = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf(urlhp) + urlhp.length, url.length); file = (file.charAt(0) != "/") ? 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