The date marks the traditional founding of Jakarta, at the time the port of Sunda Kelapa, which Fatahillah, a commander in the service of the Sultanate of Banten and Demak, captured from the Hindu Kingdom of Sunda. He renamed the place Jayakarta, often translated as complete victory. In 1619 the Dutch East India Company under Jan Pieterszoon Coen destroyed the town and founded Batavia on the site, which became the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The Japanese occupation renamed it Jakarta in 1942, and after independence it became the capital of Indonesia. Today it is one of the most populous urban areas in the world, and the government has been building a new capital, Nusantara, on Borneo, partly because of Jakarta's overcrowding and sinking land.
Before and after
- from 11 November 1526 to 16 August 1570Eastern Hungarian Kingdom
- 1527Origins of Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine
- 21 May 1527Birth of Philip II of Spain
- 21 June 1527Death of Niccolò Machiavelli
- 22 June 1527Founding of Jakarta
- 6 April 1528Death of Albrecht Dürer
- 22 April 1529Treaty of Zaragoza
- from 24 October 1529 to 10 August 1530Siege of Florence
- 25 August 1530Birth of Ivan the Terrible
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