Batavia (1628) | Timeline

Batavia replica
(courtesy Bataviawerf, Lelystad)

The Batavia was a ship of the Dutch East India Company. Built in Amsterdam in 1628 as the company's new flagship, she sailed that year on her maiden voyage for Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies. On 4 June 1629, the "Batavia" was wrecked on the Houtman Abrolhos, a chain of small islands off the coast of Western Australia. (Intro from Wikipedia)

October 28, 1628 - Texel, Netherlands - Sets sail for the East Indies in a group of eight Dutch East India Company (VOC) ships: "Buren", "Dordrecht", "'s-Gravenhage", "Galliasse", "Batavia", "Assendelft", "Saerdam" and "Kleine David". The "Batavia" runs aground temporarily in the low tide =(START)

October 29, 1628 - Coast of Zeeland / outside Antwerp - The high tide releases the "Batavia" and she is able to rejoin the other ships. Then, the fleet is battered by two storms and the "Batavia" is stranded

October 30, 1628 - The Downs, England - The "Batavia" rejoins again the rest of the fleet at the Downs. The "'s-Gravenhage" is badly damaged by the storm and has to return to port to be repaired. The fleet is reduced to 7 ships

December 28, 1628 - Sierra Leone - Pulls into port in Sierra Leone. They find Abraham Gerritszoon, a 15-year-old dutch sailor who had deserted the "Leyden" a few months earlier. Pelsaert agrees to take him aboard

January 1(?), 1629 - Sierra Leone - The course is changed towards Brazil, to sail around the southeastern winds. As they sail further to the South Atlantic, they begin to face many dead calms in the South Atlantic and long hours of blazing Sun

March 10, 1629 - Coast of Brazil - The "Batavia" reaches the coast of Brazil. The ship is then steered to the southeast, towards South Africa

April 14, 1629 - Table Bay, South Africa - The "Batavia" calls at Table Bay for provisions and to careen the ship

April 15, 1629 - Table Bay - Pelsaert goes ashore to negotiate with the khoikhoi, a local tribe of hearders

April 17, 1629 - Table Bay - Pelsaert returns to the "Batavia" and listens to complains of the other captains about the drunkenness of skipper Ariaen Jacobszoon

April 20, 1629 - Table Bay - Skipper Ariaen Jacobszoon and apothecary-turned-merchant Jeronimus Cornelisz begin plotting to seize the ship and its treasures. The first part of their plan: To separate the "Batavia" from the rest of the fleet. Then kill Pelsaert and sail the ship to Mauritius, away from VOC reach

April 22, 1629 - Table Bay - The fleet continues voyage after eight days at Table Bay

April 26, 1629 - Coast of South Africa - Pelsaert falls seriously ill, while the number of mutineers grows to eight. Jacobszoon steers the ship away from the rest of the fleet, probably during a storm

May 13, 1629 - South Indian Ocean - To the surprise of everyone, Pelsaert appears on deck, seemingly recovered

May 14, 1629 - South Indian Ocean - A group of mutineers abuses the young noblewoman Lucretia Jans to force Pelsaert to take unpopular measures

May 15, 1629 - South Indian Ocean - Pelsaert warns the entire crew that he would stop at nothing to put the criminals responsible in chains. The mutineers begin to arm themselves and get ready. Later, Pelsaert speaks to Lucretia Jans, who tells him she had recognized the voice and accent of high-boatswain Jan Evertszoon. Pelsaert concludes that if a high-ranking officer was involved, then skipper Ariaen Jacobszoon was probably as well. So, to protect the ship's precious cargo, he remains silent until arriving in Batavia, to let the VOC do justice there.

June 4, 1629 - Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia - During the night, the "Batavia" hits a reef in the Abrolhos Islands off the west coast of Australia. Most passengers and crew manage to get off the ship to some small islands. A small portion of the crew remains inside the ship's wreckage waiting to be rescued. Captain Francisco Pelsaert and 47 others (including a baby) begin an epic journey to Batavia on the ship's longboat to bring a rescue mission to the survivors. When he reaches Batavia, all 48 of them had survived. =(END)

Frans Banninck Cocq | Timeline

Frans Banninck Cocq (sometimes incorrectly spelled as Banning) (1605–1655) was a burgemeester (mayor) of Amsterdam in the mid-17th century. He is best known as the central figure in Rembrandt's masterpiece "The Night Watch". (Intro from Wikipedia)

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February 23, 1605 - Amsterdam - Frans Banninck Cocq is born

February 27, 1605 - Amsterdam - Frans Banninck Cocq is baptized (a scandal, because his parents, Jan Jansz Cock and Lysbeth Frans, were not married

September 17, 1605 - Amsterdam - Jan Jansz Cock and Lysbeth Frans notice their marriage at the Town Hall
April 24, 1607 - Haarlem - His brother Jan Cocq is born
September 1(?), 1623 - Amsterdam - His mother Lijsbeth dies, aged 42
June 1, 1625 - Poitiers, France - Arrives at Poitiers, France, to study Law
April 26, 1626 - Saumur, France - Visit to Saumur
September 16, 1626 - Poitiers - Departs from Bourges
November 15, 1626 - Bourges - Moves to Bourges to continue his studies
April 16, 1627 - Bourges - Departs from Bourges
January(?) 1(?), 1630(?) - Amsterdam - Frans Banninck Cocq returns to Amsterdam as a Doctor in Law

April 23, 1630 - Amsterdam - Marries Maria Overlander van Purmerland

October 18, 1630 - The Hague - Volkert Overlander, his father-in-law and one of the founders of the East India Company, dies. Banninck Cock inherits his properties, including a canal house, the castle of Ilpenstein north of Amsterdam along with the title Lord of Purmerland and Ilpendam =(START)

The Night watch, 1642 (Rembrandt)

January(?) 1(?), 1632 - Amsterdam(?) - Commissioner of the college of marital affairs

January(?) 1(?), 1633 - Amsterdam(?) - Commissioner of the college of marital affairs
August 22, 1633 - Amsterdam - His father, Jan Jansz Cock dies, aged 58
January(?) 1(?), 1634 - Amsterdam - Becomes member of the City Council

January(?) 1(?), 1635 - Amsterdam - Lieutenant of the militia of district I and captain of district II (until 1646)

January(?) 1(?), 1636 - Amsterdam - Commissioner of the college of marital affairs
January(?) 1(?), 1638 - Amsterdam - Frans Banninck Cocq orders a painting of his company of Civic Guards from Rembrandt, to decorate a wall of the main hall on the first floor in the new headquarters of the City's "Schutterij"(Civic Guard) at the Kloveniers Voorburgwal.

Banninck Cocq (on the left) with
the Amsterdam archery Militia, 1653

January(?) 1(?), 1642 - Amsterdam - Rembrandt completes the "Night watch"" for Frans Banninck Cocq

January(?) 1(?), 1646 - Amsterdam - Promoted to Colonel

January(?) 1(?), 1648 - Amsterdam - Holds the function of governor of the Amsterdam "longbowmen's shooting range"

January(?) 1(?), 1650 - Amsterdam - Appointed Burgemeester (Mayor) of Amsterdam

January(?) 1(?), 1653 - Amsterdam - Frans Banninck Cocq is re-elected as Burgemeester of Amsterdam

January 6, 1655 - Amsterdam - Frans Banninck Cocq dies, aged 49 =(END)

Bibliography
MEE Jr. Charles L. - "Rembrandt: A life"

Anne Frank | Timeline

Annelies Marie Frank (12 June 1929 – February or March 1945) was a German-born diarist and writer. She is one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her diary, The Diary of a Young Girl, which documents her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II, is one of the world's most widely known books and has been the basis for several plays and films. (Wikipedia)

June 12, 1929 - Frankfurt, Germany - Annelies Marie Frank is born

March 13, 1933 - Frankfurt - The Nazi Party wins the elections for the Municipal Council

December(?) 1(?), 1933 - Aachen - Edith (Anne's mother) and daughters arrive in Aachen to stay with her mother, Rosa Holländer

February 1(?), 1934 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Anne, sister Margot and mother Edith arrive in Amsterdam

January 8, 1941 - Amsterdam - Jews are forbidden to have access to movie theaters
June 12, 1942 - Amsterdam - Anne Frank starts writing her diary, aged 13 =(START)
June 20, 1942 - Amsterdam - Anne Frank lists many of the restrictions that had been placed upon the lives of jews
July 6, 1942 - Amsterdam - The Frank family move to their hiding place, a secret annex
July 13, 1942 - Amsterdam - Three other people, the Van Pels family, join the Frank family in their hiding place
October 9, 1943 - Amsterdam - Diary entry: "Our many Jewish friends are being taken away by the dozen. These people are being treated by the Gestapo without a shred of decency, being loaded into cattle trucks and sent to Westerbork"

April 5, 1944 - Amsterdam - Anne Frank writes that she aspires to become a journalist
June 6, 1944 - Amsterdam - Great commotion in the "secret annexe" with news of D-Day on the british radio
July 21, 1944 - Amsterdam - Anne Frank is excited and optimistic while hearing on the radio about the attempt to kill Hitler
August 1, 1944 - Amsterdam - Last entry on the diary
August 4, 1944 - Amsterdam - Following a tip from an informer, the Franks, Van Pels and Pfeffer are taken
August 5, 1944 - Amsterdam - The Franks are transfered to the Huis van Bewaring (House of Detention)
August 7, 1944 - Westerbork Transit Camp, Hooghalen - The Franks are transported to the Westerbork transit camp
September 3, 1944 - Westerbork Transit Camp - The Franks are deported to Auschwitz
September 6, 1944 - Auschwitz - The Franks arrive in Auschwitz. All survive, including Anne, lucky to be 15 already
October 28, 1944 - Auschwitz - Selections begin for women to be relocated to Bergen-Belsen
November(?) 2(?), 1944 - Bergen-Belsen, Lower Saxony - Anne and sister Margot arrive in a group of 8,000 women. Edith stays in Auschwitz and later dies of starvation
February 7, 1945 - Bergen-Belsen - Anne Frank and sister Margot start displaying symptoms of typhus
March(?) 1(?), 1945 - Bergen-Belsen - Margot and Anne die of typhus around this date, in an epidemic that killed 17,000 other women in the camp =(END)