apr 7, 1652 - The Dutch East India company established a base at Cape of Good Hope.
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Dutch merchants and independent trading companies, growing impatient with the monopoly that the Portuguese had established over the spice trade with East Asia at the end of the 15th century and founded the VOC . The VOC was granted a government charter, which guaranteed it the right to the spice trade monopoly in East Asia.
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