against the king of Siam, and requesting shipwrights,
who are sent to him.
August 22.—The king of Mataram sends: ®
fresh army to attack Batavia.
Sept. 21. 1 he Javanese assault the fortress of
Batavia, and are driven back with loss.
Sept. 25.—-The Dutch governor-general dying,
James Specx is nominated in his room.
Sept. 29.—The Javanese renew the assault on
the fort, and are again defeated.
Oct. 20.—The Javanese make a third and last
attack on the fortress of Batavia.
The Javanese raise the siege of Batavia, and retreat,
having, it is alleged, lost by famine, death, or
desertion, one half of an army, amounting to from
one hundred to one hundred and twenty thousand
men.
C. 1632. S. 1554. H. 1042.
July 22.—-Don Lorenzo Olaso, provisional governor
of the Philippines.
Henry Brouwer, governor-general of the Dutch
Indies.
C. 1633. J. 1555. H. 1043.
The Dutch governor-general sends a fruitless
embassy to the king of Bali, to claim his assistance
against the sultan of Mataram.
The sultan of Mataram directs measures to be
taken for changing the kaléndár ; and the lunar
months are adopted instead of the solar.
C. 1634. J. 1556. H. 1044.
Amboyna and the rest of the Moluccas continue
in a state of revolt.
C. 1635. J. 1557. H. 1045.
June 25.—Don Sébastian Hurtado de Côreuëra,
governor of the Philippines.
The king of Achin imprisons the Portuguese
ambassador, and murders all the Portuguese about
his pourt.
C. 1636. J. 1558. H. 1046.
Antony Van Diemen, governor-general of the
Dutch Indies.
C. 1637. J. 1559. H. 1047.
The revolt at Amboyna still continuing, the governor
general proceeds thither in person.
A great mortality prevails all over the island of
Celebes.
Don Sebastian Hurtado, governor of the Philip,
pines, sails against Sooloo and Mindanao, and after
an obstinate struggle, reduces them, but is soon obliged
to recal his garrisons and abandon his conquests.
C. 1638. J. 1560. H. 1048.
T omamenanga ri GaOkana dies, and is succeeded
by his son, Tomamenanga ri Papang Batuna.
The governor general of the Dutch Indies repairs
to Amboyna a second time, and Concludes a
new treaty with the king of Ternate, hut the insurrection
still continues.