Which Happened First?

Dutch Gold Coast

Dutch Gold Coast
Image: Jan Luyken · Public domain · source

The Dutch Gold Coast or Dutch Guinea, officially Dutch possessions on the Coast of Guinea, was a portion of contemporary Ghana known as the Gold Coast, that from 1612 was gradually colonised by the Dutch West India Company (WIC) from the Dutch and Batavian Republics.

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Which happened first?

Timeline

  1. Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach1596–1809
  2. Saxe-Coburg1596–1735
  3. Dutch Gold Coast (this page)1598–1872
  4. Time of Troubles1598–1613
  5. Dahomey1600s – January 15, 1894
  6. Edo period1603–1868

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