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Johan van Oldenbarnevelt

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Johan van Oldenbarnevelt

Gender: Male

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The States General grants the VOC its charter

📅 20 March 1602

The States General merged competing Dutch pre-companies into the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) and gave it a monopoly over Dutch trade in a vast area between the Cape of Good Hope and the...