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The Spanish, however, continued to trade with the Moluccas. <BR> King Carlos I. of Spain (= Emperor Charles V.) mortgaged his claim to the Moluccas to <BR> Portugal; Spaniards secretly continued trade with the Moluccas <BR> Arrival of Governor Antonio Galvao at Ternate; under him proselytizing began <BR> Portuguese deposed Sultan Tabarji of Ternate, replaced him by his father <BR> St. Francis Xavier arrived in the Moluccas <BR> Ternate force, with Portuguese support, took control of Sultanate of Jailolo (Halmahera) <BR> Ternate force attacked the Portuguese <BR> The Portuguese established a fort on Ambon; in 1572 it was abandoned, another fort <BR> constructed at a different location <BR> Portuguese fort at Ternate besieged by Sultan's forces; no aid from Goa, Malacca <BR> The Portuguese expelled from Ternate <BR> The city of Ambon began growing outside Portuguese Fort Victoria <BR> Arrival of the Jesuits <BR> Portuguese Ambon besieged by Sultan of Ternate <BR> Portuguese Ambon besieged by Sultan of Ternate <BR> Portuguese Ambon besieged by Sultan of Mataram <BR> Portuguese Ambon besieged by the Dutch <BR> English established fort on Banda <BR> <A HREF = "tlvoc.html">V.O.C.</A> ousted the Portuguese from the Moluccas <BR> The Spanish took Ternate, Tidore <BR> <A HREF = "tlvoc.html">V.O.C.</A> constructed Fort Oranje on Ternate <BR> During negotiations, <A HREF = "tlvoc.html">V.O.C.</A> employee Pter Verhoefd murdered on Banda; the V.O.C. occupied <BR> main island Neira <BR> <A HREF = "tlvoc.html">V.O.C.</A> occupied Ai, expelled population <BR> <A HREF = "tlvoc.html">V.O.C.</A> occupied Lontor, massacred population; islands were resettled <BR> English founded trading post on Ambon <BR> <A HREF = "tlvoc.html">V.O.C.</A> had English merchants on Ambon murdered <BR> <A HREF = "tlvoc.html">V.O.C.</A> attacked Sultanate of Ternate <BR> Mandarsyah became Sultan of Ternate with <A HREF = "tlvoc.html">V.O.C.</A> help. <BR> Protestant church, parish documented at Amahai on Ceram <BR> Rebellion in the Sultanate of Ternate; Sultan, <A HREF = "tlvoc.html">V.O.C.</A> had clove trees cut down <BR> clove trees cut down in Sultanate of Tidore <BR> <A HREF = "tlvoc.html">V.O.C.</A> forcefully resettled population of Buru <BR> <A HREF = "tlvoc.html">V.O.C.</A> recognized Sultan of Tidore's sovereignty over <A HREF = "../pacific/tlirianjaya.html">Papuan Islands</A> <BR> The Spanish abandoned the Moluccas (Tidore) <BR> Sultanate of Tidore recognized <A HREF = "tlvoc.html">V.O.C.</A> sovereignty <BR> Sultan of Ternate fought, was defeated by <A HREF = "tlvoc.html">V.O.C.</A> <BR> Sultan of Tidore ceded his claims to territory on <A HREF = "../pacific/tlirianjaya.html">Irian Jaya</A> to <A HREF = "tlvoc.html">V.O.C.</A> <BR> British occupation of Ambon <BR> British occupation of the Moluccas <BR> Arrival on Ambon of Joseph Kam, 'apostle of the Moluccans' (1769-1833) <BR> Ambon - Rebellion of Thomas Matulessy; suppressed <BR> Establishment of K.N.I.L. (Dutch East Indies' Army); most soldiers were Moluccans <BR> Sultan of Jailolo deposed, Halmahera annexed into <A HREF = "tldei.html">Dutch East Indies</A> <BR> Mandatory cultivation of spices abolished <BR> Sultanate of Tidore abolished by the Dutch <BR> Sultanate of Ternate abolished by the Dutch <BR> Japanese occupation <BR> 3,468 Moluccans, upon Indonesian independence, emigrated to the <A HREF = "../lowcountries/xnederland.html">Netherlands</A> <BR> Secessionist movement in Southern Moluccans <BR> Begin of Transmigrasi policy, which acording to official sources brought over 100,000 <BR> (Muslim) immigrants to the Moluccas <BR> Moluccan exil govt. in the <A HREF = "../lowcountries/xnederland.html">Netherlands</A>, Republik Maluku Selatan, issued postage stamps (never used) <BR> Exile Moluccan in the <A HREF = "../lowcountries/xnederland.html">Netherlands</A> took school children, train passengers hostage; <BR> overwhelmed by Dutch forces <BR> Indonesia's Maluku Province split in two <BR> Strife between religious groups <BR> Peace agreement signed between Ambon factions <BR> <BR> <A HREF = "tlvoc.html">Timeline V.O.C.</A> <BR> <A HREF = "tldei.html">Timeline Dutch East Indies</A> <BR> <A HREF = "tlindonesia.html">Timeline Indonesia</A> <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> </div><div align = "center"> <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"> An Online Timeline of the History of Indonesia, from <A HREF = "http://www.gimonca.com/sejarah/sejarah.shtml"><B> Serajah Indonesia</B></A> <BR> Indonesia History, from <A HREF = "http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/south_east_asia/indonesia/history.htm"><B> Lonely Planet</B></A> <BR> Timeline, from <A HREF = "http://users.skynet.be/network.indonesia/ni6001.htm"><B>Network Indonesia</B></A> <BR> World Statesmen : <A HREF = "http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Indonesia.htm"><B>Indonesia</B></A>, by Ben Cahoon <BR> <A HREF = "http://voc-kenniscentrum.nl/index.html"><B>V.O.C. Kenniscentrum</B></A>, Dutch language site <BR> History of Islam in Indonesia, from <A HREF = "http://www.ummah.net/islam/nusantara/history.html"><B>Islam Nusantara</B></A> <BR> Brief History, from <A HREF = "http://coci.itb.ac.id/brief.htm"><B>Indonesia Culture and Information</B></A> <BR> Royalty in Indonesia, from <A HREF = "http://www.royalty.nu/Asia/Indonesia.html"><B>royalty.nu</B></A> <BR> Indonesian Traditional Polities, from <A HREF = "http://rulers.org/indotrad.html"><B>rulers.org</B></A> <BR> Muslim Sultanate in South East Asia, from <A HREF = "http://islamic-world.net/khalifah/sultanate_in_SEA.htm"><B>Khalifa</B></A> <BR> Indonesian Princely Stats, from <A HREF = "http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Indonesia_princely_states2.html"><B> World Statesmen</B></A> <BR> The Portuguese in the Moluccas and the Lesser Sunda Islands, by <A HREF = "http://www.colonialvoyage.com/ternate.html"><B> Marco Ramerini</B></A> <BR> Article Maluku Islands, from <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moluccas"><B>Wikipedia</B></A> <BR> Andres de Urdaneta 1498-1569, from <A HREF = "http://heritage.villanova.edu/vu/heritage/famous/urdaneta.htm"> <B>Villanova University</B></A> <BR> History of Maluku, from <A HREF = "http://www.websitesrcg.com/ambon/history/history-maluku-01.htm"><B> Ambon Information Website</B></A> <BR> Kerk, adat en Theologie. Een korte geschiedenis van Amahai, een christelijke negorij op Ceram 1600-1935, by <A HREF = "http://members.home.nl/cgf.de.jong/Amahai.pdf"><B>Chris G.F. de Jong</B></A>, in Dutch <BR> Document : Republik Maluku (1950), posted by <A HREF = "http://www.cwis.org/fwdp/Oceania/maluku1.txt"><B>CWIS</B></A>; search site for <A HREF = "http://www.picosearch.com/cgi-bin/ts.pl"><B>more</B></A> Maluku documents <BR> </font></TD> </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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