Batavia by the Dutch, and compelled to sign a
treaty, agreeing to destroy all the cloves in his dominions.
Aug. 28.—Vlaming, the governor of Amboyna,
executes more than twenty of the nobles of the
.Moluccas by breaking some on the wheel, and
strangling or drowning others.
The king of Bantam declares war against the
Dutch, and proceeds against Batavia, with sixty
thousand men, but does no more than lay waste
the surrounding country and retire.
C. 1653. J. 1575. H. 1063.
Feb. 6.—Thè Dutch execute a great many nobles
and princes of the Moluccas taken prisoners
by them.
The king of Macassar joins the people of the
Moluccas imtheir league against the Dutch.
March 6.—The Dutch and people of Macassar
fight a naval action at Ternate.
May 18.—Jan Maatzuiker, governor-general of
the Dutch Indies.
May 21.—The Dutch order another execution
of the Moluccan chiefs.
An extraordinary fall of rain takes place in Java,
when many parts of the country not usually flooded
are inundated.-*—In the month of Sàfar of the
same year, a comet is seen.
A mission appears from Sukadana in Borneo to
do homage to the sultan of Mataram.
Tomamenanga ri Papang Batuna dies, and is succeeded
by his son, Hasan u’ Din, called also
Tomamenanga Bala Pangkana.
Don Sabiniano Manrique de Lara, governor of
the Philippines.
Corrolat, king of Mindanao, puts to death two
Jesuits, and some other Spaniards sent to him as
ambassadors from Manila.
A formidable revolt of the natives takes place
in the Philippines.
C. 1654. J. 1576. H. 1064.
Krajng Patingalong, first minister of Goa, denominated
“ the Father of the Country,” dies, and
is succeeded by the able and renowned Kronrong.
The war continues in the Moluccas.
C. 1655. J.1577. H. 1065.
The Dutch defeat the Macassars in the Moluccas,
who make a gallant resistance.—Four hundred
prisoners are made on this occasion, and assigned
to the captors as slaves.
A mission from the king of Siam appears at
Mataram.
The king of Goa Macassar conquers all Butung,
overthrowing the Dutch establishment there.
C. 1656. J. 1578. H. 1066.
The Dutch conclude a peace with the king of
Macassar.
The king of Gilolq is taken, and, with five and
twenty of his people, privately drowned by the