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Jakarta

capital and largest city of Indonesia

23 dated entries naming Jakarta, drawn from 23 separate years between 1527 CE and 2025 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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16th century

  • 1527June 22 – Jakarta, modern-day capital of Indonesia, is founded as Jayakarta.source

17th century

  • 1621January 18 – The Dutch East India Company formally names its fortress at Jayakarta in Indonesia, calling it Batavia. Upon the independence of the Dutch East Indies as Indonesia in 1945, Batavia will be renamed Jakarta.source
  • 1622May 25 – The English ship Tryall, which left Plymouth, England for Batavia (now Jakarta), wrecks on the Tryal Rocks, nine months later (the wreck is discovered in 1969).source
  • 1627April 10 – The t Gulden Zeepaert reaches Batavia in the Dutch East Indies.source
  • 1639Japanese wives and children of Dutch and British people from Hirado are sent to Batavia (Asian headquarters of the VOC, renamed Jakarta by the Japanese around three centuries later) on Dutch ships.source
  • 1644January 30 – Dutch explorer Abel Tasman departs from Batavia in the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Jakarta in Indonesia) on his second major expedition for the Dutch East India Company, to map the north coast of Australia. Tasman commands three ships, Limmen, Zeemeeuw and Braek, and returns to Batavia at the beginning of August with no major discoveries.source
  • 1662February 11 – A violent storm in the Indian Ocean strikes a fleet of seven ships of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) as they are traveling back to the Dutch Republic from Batavia in the Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia). Three of the freighters— Wapen van Holland, Gekroonde Leeuw and Prins Willem — are lost with all hands. The ships Vogel Phoenix, Maarsseveen and Prinses Royal make their way back to the Netherlands. The other ship, the freighter Arnhem remains afloat and its roughly 80 survivors are able to evacuate in boats to search for land.source
  • 1694February 5 – The ship Ridderschap van Holland is lost at sea, having departed the Cape of Good Hope with a crew of 300, with a destination of Batavia (modern-day Jakarta in Indonesia), normally a voyage of two months. It never arrives and is never seen again.source

18th century

  • 1724January 18 – The Dutch East India Company cargo ship Fortuyn, on its maiden voyage, departs from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa after a layover of 16 days following its arrival from the Netherlands. With a crew of 225 commanded by Pieter Westrik, the ship departs for Batavia in the Dutch East Indies and is never seen again.source
  • 1725July 8 – Mattheus de Haan becomes the new Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia), governing until his death on June 1, 1729 in Batavia (modern Jakarta).source
  • 1728April 30 – The 82 survivors of the wreckage of the Dutch East India Company frigate Zeewijk arrive in the new ship that they had built, Sloepie, at their original destination of Batavia in the Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta in Indonesia).source
  • 1740October 9–22 – Batavia Massacre: Troops of the Dutch East India Company massacre at least 10,000 Chinese Indonesians in Batavia.source

20th century

  • 1946November 29 – The Central All-Indonesian Workers Organization (SOBSI) is founded in Jakarta.source
  • 1957November 30 – Indonesian president Sukarno survives a grenade attack at the Cikini School in Jakarta, but several children are killed.source
  • 1963September 18 – Rioters burn down the British Embassy in Jakarta, to protest the formation of Malaysia.source
  • 1966June 29 – Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, Indonesian politician, governor of Jakartasource
  • 1975April 20 – Taman Mini Indonesia Indah opens to the public in Jakarta, Indonesia.source
  • 1987October 19 – Two commuter trains collide head-on on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia; 102 are killed.source

21st century

  • 2009July 17 – Two bombs exploded separately at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia, killing 9 people (including 2 suicide bombers) and injuring 53.source
  • 2018August 18–September 2 – The 2018 Asian Games are held in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia.source
  • 2019March 24 – The first phase of Jakarta's MRT system opened with its first line.source
  • 2020January 1 – Flash floods struck Jakarta, Indonesia, killing 66 people in the worst flooding in over a decade.source
  • 2025November 25 – A report published by the United Nations shows that Indonesian capital Jakarta has surpassed Japanese capital Tokyo as the world's largest city, with a population of 42 million people.source

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