The Danish East India Company (in Danish Dansk Ostindisk Kompagni) was founded in 1616, following a privilege of the Danish king Christian IV. It was focused on trade with India and had its base in Tranquebar. Events October 25 — Dirk Hartog makes the first recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at an island off the Western Australian coast Pocahontas arrives in England War between Venice and Austria Collegium Musicum founded in Prague Nicolaus Copernicus De revolutionibus is placed on the Index of Forbidden Books... An image of Christian IV. Christian IV (1577–1648), king of Denmark and Norway, the son of Frederick II, king of Denmark and Norway, and Sophia of Mecklenburg, was born at Frederiksborg castle in 1577, and succeeded to the throne on the death of his father (April 4, 1588), attaining... Tranquebar, 1600. ...

After a short blossoming, it lost importance quickly and was dissolved in 1729. In 1732, it was refounded as Asiatische Compagnie, yet in 1772 it lost its monopoly. During its heyday, the Danish and Swedish East India Company imported more tea than the British East India Company - and smuggled 90% of it into Britain, where it could be sold at a huge profit. Events July 30 - Baltimore, Maryland is founded. ... Events February 23 - First performance of Handels Orlando, in London June 9 - James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia. ... 1772 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The Swedish East India Company, or Svenska Ostindiska Companiet (SOIC) was founded in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1731 for the purpose of conducting trade with the far east. ... The English East India Company, sometimes referred to as John Company, was a joint-stock company of investors, which was granted a Royal Charter by Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600, with the intent to favour trade privileges in India. ...

During the Napoleonic Wars, in 1801 and again in 1807, the British navy attacked Copenhagen in the Battle of Copenhagen (1807). As a consequence of the last attack, Denmark lost its entire fleet and the island of Helgoland; British control of the seas spelled the end of the Danish East India Company. The Napoleonic Wars are the wars fought during Napoleon Bonapartes rule of France. ... 1801 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1807 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The second Battle of Copenhagen, which lasted from 16 August to 5 September 1807, was, like the First Battle of Copenhagen, an attack by the British on the Danish capital of Copenhagen. ...

See also: Tranquebar, History of Denmark, History of India. Tranquebar, 1600. ... Ancient Denmark See also: Neolithic and Bronze Age People lived in what is today Denmark more than 100,000 years ago, but they were likely forced to leave for a time because of the ice cap that covered the land for some of the intervening time during the ice age. ... The History of India for times preceding 1947 is inseparable from that of the history of the Indian subcontinent as a whole. ...

References

• The Danish East India Company
• Denmark during the Age of the French Revolution, 1790-1814