Jacob Roggeveen is arrested in Batavia because …
Years: 1722 - 1722
September
Jacob Roggeveen is arrested in Batavia because he had violated the monopoly of the Dutch East India Company, but the Company is later forced to release him, to compensate him for the trouble, and to pay his crew.
Roggeveen will return to the Netherlands in 1723, and publish part four of De val van 's werelds afgod (The fall of the world's idol).
Locations
People
Groups
- Easter Island
- Netherlands, United Provinces of the (Dutch Republic)
- Dutch East India Company in Indonesia
- Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC in Dutch, literally "United East Indies Company")
